TranslationofLetters.pptVIP

Translation of Formal Letters Letters and Official Documents: 应用文: for various communicative purposes Conventions, Contracts Agreements: Social Letters: Professional Letters: Business Letters: Social Letters: 社交信件 personal letters, greeting letters, thank-you letters, invitations, letters for congratulation, condolences, sympathy, apology, etc. Professional Letters:事务信件 recommendations, applications, certificates, notarizations, certificate of appointments, letter of appointment, application letters, personal statements, resume and covering letters Format of Letters Heading: the address of the writer Inside Address: Salutation: Body: Complimentary Closing: Signature: Postscript: Enclosure: enclosed is /are/please find my resume Translation Strategies Literary Language, fixed formats and stereotyped expressions colloquial , concise literary, concise, or colloquial Chinese as required, Literal translation of closing, or adoption of traditional conventionalities Professional letters /social letters: no clear distinction—format, but diction Sample Letters We want you to the ceremony, to the wedding luncheon 请您出席; 家宴；喜宴 2. With Love, Cordially yours, Sincerely yours 美, Yours faithfully英, Yours truly, Loving, Yours, Respectfully yours 此致 敬礼; 此致 3. With best wishes to you both : 祝你们安好、春安、 4. We should be grateful/obliged/thankful if you should get for us some information about this company. 如蒙… 将不胜感激 Translation of Invitations request the pleasure of sb’s company at … R. S. V. P.: repondez s’il vous plait To Whom It May Concern, Gentlemen美, Dear Sirs 英 This is to certify that notarize, introduce, Hereby, hereon, hereto, herein, hereof, hereunder : under this, in here, of this, by this, after this, to this Mr. George Bush with regards to 向…致意） Mr. Joe Waterman, requests the acceptance of a watch forwarded send, pass herewith with this letter . 奉上手表一块，聊表敬意，务请笑纳。 George Bush Sept.8, 1998 Dear Joe: You will do me honor by accepting that watch f