Prof. Liang Aimin 梁爱民副教授

Practical English Writings 实用英语应用文写作 Prof. Liang Aimin 梁爱民副教授

6.Letters of Thanks 感谢信

1. Introduction 概述 在日常生活和工作中，感谢信应用范围很广。当收到馈赠、邀请、赴宴、照顾、款待、慰问、吊唁、祝贺时，写信道谢乃人之常情。在商务活动中，对雇员的建议，客户的订货，供应商的优质服务，银行、商会或友邻的信息提供等等，均应写信致谢。感谢信能帮助加强联系、增进友谊、树立企业的良好形象。

感谢信应态度诚恳、热情洋溢，不能过于简短，以免使收信人造成敷衍了事、言不由衷的错觉。感谢信应态度诚恳、热情洋溢，不能过于简短，以免使收信人造成敷衍了事、言不由衷的错觉。 • 感谢信通常包括如下内容：一是对对方的馈赠、帮助、关心和邀请等表示由衷的感谢，二是说明对方的馈赠、帮助、关心和邀请等所起的作用和对自己的意义，三是表示希望日后有机会定当答谢对方，并在结尾再次致谢。

2.Commonly-Used Sentences on Letters of Thanks 感谢信常用句型 • 1) Thank you very much for… • 2) Many thanks for your… • 3) Please accept my sincere appreciation for××× • 4) I am truly grateful to you for××× • 5) It was good (thoughtful) of you ××× • 承蒙好意（关心） ××× • 6) You were so kind to send×××

7)Thank you again for your wonderful hospitality(盛情款待) and I am looking forward to seeing you soon. • 8）I hope I can reciprocate (回报)your kindness when you come to ××× • 9) Thanks a million ( or Thanks ever so much) • 10) Oceans of thanks ．（感谢之至） • 11) I cannot tell you how much your letter delighted (愉快)(relieved, amused, enchanted　轻松) me. • 12) Please accept my sincere appreciation for… • 请接受我对……衷心感谢。

Thank You Sincerely • 13) I sincerely appreciate… • 14) I am very sincerely grateful to you for… • 15) I wish to express my profound appreciation for… 我对……深表感谢。 • 16) Many thanks for your generous cooperation. 谢谢贵方的真诚合作。

3. Specimen1)Thanks for Favor谢恩惠 Dear Mrs. Green: My daughter has written to tell that you have been very kind to her during her stay in New York. My husband and I deeply appreciate your Courtesy（对此深感谢意）, and we do hope you’ll come to stay together with us for a few days when you are in Beijing. Thank you for your many kindness to Lin Fang. Sincerely yours, Li Lan

2.Thanks for Hospitability谢款待 Dear Prof. Smith, Many thanks for your hospitability and the honor you showed me during my recent visit to your country. It was thoughtful of you to introduce me to so many of your famous professors and learned scholars in your Country. I have learned a lot from them. I returned to China safe and sound last Friday, and have resumed my work now.

I hope you will some day visit our • country with its ancient history and beautiful scenery, and give us some lectures on “ Modern English Literature”. • Please have no hesitation in writing to me should you want me to do something for you in China. • With best wishes, I remain.（祝好） • Yours sincerely, • David Li

3.Thanks for Help • Dear Alice, • I wish there were a better word than “thanks” to express my appreciation of your help in making the celebration of our School Founders’ Day(校庆庆祝会) a success. • Thanks for giving me the thrill of bringing your wonderful work to the attention of the trustees at our celebration.（在庆祝会上，您对校董事们的招待工作做得很出色，使我感动。谢谢。） • All my best wishes. • Sincerely • Salley

4. Thanks for Recommendation谢推荐 • Dear Professor Smith, • I think you’ll be pleased to know that I have been hired as Human Resources Assistant manager(人力资源部助理经理) of Huawei Co. I will begin to work on May 1st. Please accept my sincere thanks for your reference and your thorough coaching（推荐以及各方面的教诲）I received at Hunan University. • With best wishes. • Faithfully yours, • Porsia Yang

5. Thanks for Seeing Off • Dear Alice, • Many thanks for your coming to see me off at the airport. The warmth of friendship has accompanied me through the whole flight, and made my journey pleasant and comfortable. • I arrived safely at Hong Kong this afternoon, and shall write you again later. • Sincerely yours, • Jack

6. Thanks for Dinner • Dear Mr. Song, • Thank you for inviting me and some of my colleagues to dine with you last night. It was an enjoyable occasion and an excellent dinner. • As you know, we value our long-established relationship with the People’s Republic of China, and with the Ministry of Foreign Trade(对外贸易部） in particular, and look forward to doing more business with them and to many future years ahead of increased cooperation. • Yours sincerely • James

7.Thanks for Coming to the Hospital谢探病 • Dear Lucy, • Thanks for your kind visit which has helped me to forget the lonesomeness and minimize the pain of my illness. Curiously enough, the doctor says that I am over the hump and should be improving steadily. It is nice to think that your friendship and comfortable remarks have contributed to my coming around.

The doctor assured me if such improvement continued, I should be able to leave the sickbed within a few days. You can imagine how the news has cheered me up. • Sincerely yours, • Jim

8. Thanks for Gifts • Dear Mr. Martin: • I want to thank you for the beautiful roses you sent to my mother. She was very happy and pleased when she saw they were from you. • I ‘m glad to say she is recovering, and I hope she will soon be able to leave the hospital. • We both send you our warmest thanks for the flowers and your very kind wishes. • Sincerely, • John Granby

9.Thanks for Order from Customers感谢客户订货 • Gentlemen: • Thank you for your order. We hope you will be fully pleased with the goods we supply, and that we are very glad to count you among our regular customers（固定客户）. Please let us know if you do not receive our shipment within 14days. We try to fill all orders at one time. （我们争取将所有订货一次性全部装运） • Very truly yours

10.Thanks for the Supply from the Supplier感谢供应商的供货 • Dear John， • Today, we are having a wonderful celebration on our Golden Jubilee Anniversary(开业五十周年庆典活动). Looking back these years, besides thanking our retail hardware customers （五金零售商）for their loyal support, we also want you to know our sincere appreciation for your prompt supplies（及时供货）. We’ve been buying many kinds of hardware products（五金产品）from you for more than30 years. And you’ve always given us genuine quality at a fair price, plus outstanding service. What more can a wholesaler(批发商) ask from a manufacturer(供应商)? Sure, we’ve had our minor

squabbles(争议) from time to time, and your attitude was that the customer is always right ( in our case, he often wasn’t). Whatever the problems were---- I forget— They haven’t changed our high opinion of your company, your products, and your people. So, we do owe Mickelson a great big “thank you”. Thank you.(再次深深感谢您) Sincerely yours Tom Brown President

11.Thanks for Suggestions from Customers • Dear Mr. Kane: • Thanks for your helpful letter in which you suggested we should use ceramic inserts (陶瓷刀片) instead of solid carbide inserts (硬质合金刀片)in assembling our KPII lathe(车床). • After many careful tests we consider your suggestion to be most constructive. We agree with you that ceramic inserts are wear resisting（耐磨）and heat resisting（耐高温）. Our technicians and engineers are working now on a modification（着手改进）of our present lathe.

As a token of our appreciation for this suggestion(为了表示我们对这个建议的感谢), we will send you a new lathe with ceramic inserts in mid-July. • Thanks again for your very practical suggestion. • Sincerely yours • Zhang Ming • President

练一练 • 给你的现任老师写一封感谢信，感谢他/她对你学习上的帮助，生活上的关心。要求写80字以上。

Prof. Liang Aimin 梁爱民副教授