篇四：便笺类 道歉信

　　便笺(便条)和短信--分类举例--道歉

　　便条技巧

　　人们在日常生活、工作中往往有一些简单的事情需要告知别人，而因某种原因无法见到对方时，就可以采取写便条的办法来传递信息。

　　便条可以说是一种简化了的书信，常用于朋友、同事、亲戚＼家庭成员之间。内容包括：提供信息，提出要求或咨询，安排活动或表示歉意等。

　　1．便条特点

　　格式简单、三言两语、直截了当、开门见山、无需客套。

　　便条一般写在一张纸条上，放在对方桌子上、钉在门上或请第三者转交。日期从简，在便条的右上角标明月、日或星期几和上下午几点钟，也可视情况而不写。如果是用信封装好托人转交，可在收信人姓名下写C／O Mr (请某某先生转交). C／O是care of(转交)的英文缩写。

　　2．便条种类

　　病假条(notes for sick leave)，事假条（notes for affair leave），邀请条(notes for invitation)，馈赠条(notes with gifts)求证条（notes for help），致谢条（notes of apology），道歉条（notes for apology），留言条（notes on visitor’s book）。

　　(1)病假条

　　Dear manager, Feb2nd

　　I very much regret I am unable to attend office this morning owing to a severe attack of illness. I am enclosing herewith a certificate from the doctor who is attending me, as he fears it will be several days before I shall be able to resume my duties. I trust my enforced absence will not give you any serious inconvenience.

　　Yours truly,

　　(2)事假条 John Elot

　　Dear Dean, Sept 10, 2003 I received an invitation to the international conference on environmental protection this morning, so I am writing to ask for a leave of about 5 days. Attached herewith is a duplicate copy of the said invitation. Sincerely, Stanley Tyler

　　(3)邀请条

　　Dear James, July 30, 2003 I'd feel obliged if you would drop by to my birthday party next Monday.

　　Sam

　　(4)赠物条

　　Dear Emily, Aug 5,2003 You will receive with this note a copy of "Chinese-English Dictionary". I hope you will accept it as a token of my best wishes for your 21st birthday.

　　Archie

　　(5)求助条

　　Aug 10, 2003

　　Dear Jack,

　　We quite admire your fluency in English. Will you kindly spare a few hours to instruct my ten-year-old son how to improve pronunciation and intonation?

　　Yours sincerely, Mike

　　(Letters of Asking for Help)

　　例1

　　Directions: You want to study further for a Master’s degree and you are preparing for the entrance exam. Since you have difficulty in English, you should write a letter around 100 words to ask for help from your good friend Fang. You do not need to write the address.

　　Dear Fang,

　　I am sorry that I have to ask a favour of you, with the hope that you will be kind to help me.

　　I have been longing to apply for the entrance examination for MA candidates for a long time because I want to pursue advanced studies. Unfortunately I find myself far from the required standard, especially my very poor English. At this moment, the personal friendship leads me to approach you with the request, whether you can manage to give me some constructive guidance. I promise to be a diligent student. If you agree, I will come to your house once a week at a time most convenient to you.

　　Thank you very much for your kind help on many occasions in the past.

　　Your friend,

　　×××

　　*Thank you very much for your kind help on many occasions in the past.

　　多次承你帮忙，不胜感激！

　　(6)致谢条 Sept 13, 2003 Dear Archie,

　　Many thanks for your gift. The dictionary is just what I want urgently at present.

　　Emily

　　6:00pm

　　(7)致歉条

　　Maggie,

　　Sorry. I can't go to the cinema with you tonight. My instructor wants to talk with me about my research paper.

　　Tommy

　　（Apology）

　　人非圣贤，孰能无过。在社会交往中，人们常常会出现一些疏忽、过失等。如果发生此类事情，就会给对方

　　带来麻烦和不便。为了避免误解，不影响感情，在这种情况下，应写信给对方予以解释，以请求谅解。

　　此类信要写得及时，态度要诚恳，用词需谦逊。一般在信一开始就向对方表示歉意或内疚，然后说明原因并

　　提出补救的办法。

　　例1

　　Directions: You have missed a date of your friend, now you have to write a letter for apology in about 100 words.

　　May 20th

　　Dear Lily,

　　I am sorry I missed seeing you yesterday. I know that you must have been disappointed. I also feel worried and anxious in my heart. The fact is that my manager at the last moment asked me to prepare an urgent plan while I could not get to a phone to call you and yesterday I have worked late until about 8:30 p. m. I am terribly sorry. However, I would like to ask you out this weekend to make up for yesterday. Please give me a chance and I am waiting for your reply.

　　×××

　　* 临时有事未能赴约，一定要把事情解释清楚并真诚的道歉，最好能有弥补（to make up），就像这封信里所说的那样，邀请对方周末再碰头（I would like to ask you out this weekend）注意英文句子you must have been disappointed中情态动词的用法：情态动词+完成时态，表示过去行为。这句话应该理解为“你当时一定感到很失望”。

　　例2

　　Directions: You have received an invitation from your friend, but you have already had some guests in your house.

　　Please express the reason you can’t go clearly in about 100 words.

　　6.April

　　Dear Lucy,

　　I do apologize for having to send this letter about Saturday night.

　　When I accepted your invitation, I simply forgot that Saturday was a holiday and that my own guests were not leaving until Sunday morning. It is difficult for me to make a choice. Though I also wonder to meet you very much. I could not very well go out by myself and leave the guests at my home.

　　I hope you know how sorry I am not to be with you this Saturday. Should I make a visit to you in my other spare time?

　　Thank you very much.

　　×××

　　* 自己家里有客人，自然不方便再接受别人邀请去做客所以可以明正言顺的表示拒绝或可另约时间。

　　英文要强调谓语动词，可以加上助动词，例如：

　　I do apologize for being late.

　　He did come yesterday.

　　例3

　　Directions: You are already have a date with your friend but suddenly have another thing to do and you have to tell your friend that you can’t go. Express your reason clearly in about 100 words.

　　Monday 9:00 a.m.

　　Dear Jane,

　　I am sorry to tell you that I won’t be able to come this afternoon because I have to go to the airport at 2:00 p. m. to meet an overseas visitor from Australia. I really have kept our date in my mind all these days, however, I received my boss’ e-mail this morning, he asked me to go to the airport to meet one of his friends from abroad, it’s suddenly and urgent and I must go. Please forgive me. Would you please ring me up to make another time?

　　Many thanks.

　　×××

　　* 因有事而不能赴约，只能另约时间（to make或to fix another time）。写信人Bluce很可能是英国人，因为他把“打电话”说成to ring somebody up，美国人通常说to call somebody。英国人打电话还可以说 to give somebody a ring，不要错以为别人要送你个戒指。与别人已经定好的约会却临时不能赴约时，应说明原因并诚恳地道歉，以期获得别人的谅解。 (8)留言条

　　Dear Susan,

　　I arrived this morning by train. I am staying at Swiss Hotel, RM 1207. Please come over and have a chat.

　　Yours truly,

　　Shelly