Useful Expressions
1. I am pleased to write a letter of recommendation for sb.
很樂于寫此信推薦某人。
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 …
很高興借此機會向您推薦某人—— 我的…，作為一名…進入你大學深造。
7. When he studied in my university, he passed all courses with either excellent or good marks.
他在我校學習期間，以優良的成績通過所有的課程。
8. He is a responsible research worker, and his graduation paper shows that he has considerable
ability to…
他是一位負責的研究人員，他的畢業論文顯示了他…不凡的能力。
9. I have found him to be a hardworking, competent, honest, diligent, reliable…worker.
我覺得他是一位勤奮、有能力、誠實、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任技術部主任。
李軍曾在國內從醫四年，后在英國取得醫學博士學位。希望在藥品開發方面發展。在你們相識的十年中，你認為他是一位勤奮好學，不斷進取，具有責任心的學者。
你堅信他必定在該崗位做出成績。該推薦信如能得到該公司的認真對待，你將非常感激。
Practice 2
假設你叫李平，教育學院英語教授，英語系主任，你推薦張鳴先生為一研究院博士生。張先生曾為浙江大學外語系研究生，畢業后在你校任教。
他既有學術能力，又極富責任感。你對他的才華及熱情有很深的印象，他整個學期的課都安排得十分合理，進行得十分順利。
他性格開朗，誠實可靠，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
