Useful Expressions
1. I am pleased to write a letter of recommendation for sb.
很樂(lè)于寫此信推薦某人。
2. I wish to recommend sb. for the position of …
希望推薦某人任…職位。
3. I have no hesitation in recommending sb. for the post of …
毫不猶豫地推薦某人任…職位。
4.I was asked to write a letter of recommendation for sb.
本人受托寫此信推薦某人。
5. I heartily recommend sb. as an addition to your staff. He has worked directly under me
for …years.
我衷心推薦某人成為您的一名職員。他在我手下已工作了…年。
6. It is with great pleasure that I take this opportunity to recommend sb., my … for admission to
your university for further studies as a …
很高興借此機(jī)會(huì)向您推薦某人—— 我的…，作為一名…進(jìn)入你大學(xué)深造。
7. When he studied in my university, he passed all courses with either excellent or good marks.
他在我校學(xué)習(xí)期間，以優(yōu)良的成績(jī)通過(guò)所有的課程。
8. He is a responsible research worker, and his graduation paper shows that he has considerable
ability to…
他是一位負(fù)責(zé)的研究人員，他的畢業(yè)論文顯示了他…不凡的能力。
9. I have found him to be a hardworking, competent, honest, diligent, reliable…worker.
我覺(jué)得他是一位勤奮、有能力、誠(chéng)實(shí)、肯干、可靠的…工人。
10. I will be very grateful if you would be so kind as to accept him as your graduate student.
若能接受他為您的研究生，我將不勝感激。
Practice
Practice 1
寫一封推薦信給一家合資公司，推薦你的好朋友李軍擔(dān)任技術(shù)部主任。
李軍曾在國(guó)內(nèi)從醫(yī)四年，后在英國(guó)取得醫(yī)學(xué)博士學(xué)位。希望在藥品開發(fā)方面發(fā)展。在你們相識(shí)的十年中，你認(rèn)為他是一位勤奮好學(xué)，不斷進(jìn)取，具有責(zé)任心的學(xué)者。
你堅(jiān)信他必定在該崗位做出成績(jī)。該推薦信如能得到該公司的認(rèn)真對(duì)待，你將非常感激。
Practice 2
假設(shè)你叫李平，教育學(xué)院英語(yǔ)教授，英語(yǔ)系主任，你推薦張鳴先生為一研究院博士生。張先生曾為浙江大學(xué)外語(yǔ)系研究生，畢業(yè)后在你校任教。
他既有學(xué)術(shù)能力，又極富責(zé)任感。你對(duì)他的才華及熱情有很深的印象，他整個(gè)學(xué)期的課都安排得十分合理，進(jìn)行得十分順利。
他性格開朗，誠(chéng)實(shí)可靠，深受師生厚愛。
參考答案：
To Whom It May Concern,
It is my pleasure to recommend Mr. Li Jun for the position of Director of Technical Department at your Sino-American pharmaceutical company.
Mr. Li Jun had worked in a Chinese hospital for four years, and later got his doctorate of medicine in the UK. Now he is hoping to work in the field of pharmaceutical development. I have known Mr. Li Jun for ten years, and he has impressed me as an academic-minded, hard-working and conscientious scholar.
I believe Mr. Li Jun will achieve a lot in his new post, and your kind attention to this recommendation would be greatly appreciated.
Yours sincerely,
(signature)
Hu Shengjia
Professor
Beijing Medical Institute
May 4, 2004
Dear Graduate Director,
I am happy to recommend Mr. Zhang Ming for your Ph. D program in English. I know him first when he was a graduate student in the Foreign Language Department here at Zhejiang University. After graduation, Mr. Zhang began to teach in our college where he distinguished himself in both his academic ability and his strong sense of responsibility. As an English professor and the dean of the English Department, I am deeply impressed by his talents and enthusiasm. His classes are well planned and executed throughout the semester.
Being cheerful and reliable, Mr. Zhang is also very popular among teachers and students.
Therefore, I here recommend him with no reservation. I am sure he will make an excellent candidate for your Ph. D program.
Sincerely,
Li Ping
Professor of English
Dean of English Department
Education College
