Email Greetings Explained | English Grammar for Beginners · Learn English with EnglishClass101.com
本视频讲解英语邮件中常见的问候语,如Dear和To Whom It May Concern,适合初学者练习职场和日常邮件写作。
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Hi everybody, welcome back to Ask Alesha, the weekly series where you ask me questions and I answer them.
大家好,欢迎回到《问阿莱莎》这个每周播出的节目。在这个节目中,大家可以向我提出各种问题,而我也会一一为大家解答。
Maybe, let's get to your first question this week.
好吧,让我们先来讨论你本周提出的第一个问题吧。
First question this week comes from Paulina, hi Paulina.
本周的第一个问题来自 Paulina,你好,Paulina!
Paulina says, can you explain email greetings?
保琳娜问:“你能解释一下电子邮件中的问候语吗?
I'm never sure when to use dear or if I should use something else.
我总是不确定该在什么时候使用“dear”这个词,或者是否应该使用其他表达方式。
Yeah, nice question.
是的,这个问题问得很好。
We have a few different ways that
我们有几种不同的方法……
we usually start emails and one tip that I can give you is if you are emailing someone for the first time,
我们通常在发送电子邮件时都会在开头写一些内容。这里有一个小建议:如果你是第一次给某人发邮件,
it's better to be more polite.
更有礼貌一些总是更好的。
And then you can make some other decisions afterwards.
之后你就可以做出其他一些决定了。
So let's kind of break down some common email greetings and when you might use them.
那么,我们来详细了解一下一些常见的电子邮件问候语,以及它们适合在什么情况下使用吧。
So first the most common one is dear.
首先,最常见的表达是“dear”(亲爱的)。
Typically we use dear when we don't
通常情况下,当我们不想使用“亲爱的”(dear)这个词时,就会选择其他表达方式。
know the other person or if there's somebody that's outside our organization that maybe we don't talk to a lot.
我们需要了解对方的情况,或者确认是否有某些人属于我们组织之外的人,而我们与他们的交流并不频繁。
Let's say for example you work in
比如说,你在某个公司工作……
company A and the other person works
A公司与那个人存在合作关系(即这个人为A公司工作)。
in company B and you don't have to talk to company B very often but occasionally you need to email someone there.
你在 B 公司工作,虽然不需要经常与 B 公司的人员交流,但偶尔还是需要给他们发送电子邮件。
You might use dear person in your email and this would seem totally normal.
你在邮件中使用“亲爱的某人”这样的称呼,这完全是很正常的事情。
So using dear for connections that are
那么,用“dear”这个词来表示那些亲密的人或关系……
not so close or maybe for a connection that you are making for the first time with somebody that's not super high level.
其实并没有那么接近(所谓的“紧密关系”);或者,这种联系只是你第一次与某个地位并不高的人建立起来的罢了。
So dear is kind of like the most basic way to address someone politely in an email.
在电子邮件中,“So dear”算是最基本的、用来礼貌地称呼对方的方式了。
If you're not sure if it's okay to be casual or not, you can use dear.
如果你不确定是否可以表现得随意一些,可以使用“Dear”(亲爱的)这样的称呼来增加正式感。
But if you are in a situation
但如果你处于某种特定的情况中……
where you need to email someone who is higher up in another organization or maybe even in your own company,
在这种情况下,你需要给另一个组织(或者甚至是你自己公司)中职位较高的人发送电子邮件。
what should you do?
你应该怎么做呢?
So in those cases, if you know the title of the person, you can use the title.
因此,在这些情况下,如果你知道这个人的头衔,就可以使用该头衔来称呼他。
So for example, dear doctor so -and -so or dear president so -and -so or something like that.
例如,亲爱的医生某某某,或者亲爱的总统某某某,诸如此类。
You can use their title to do that.
你可以使用他们的头衔来实现这一点。
If you don't know who you need to talk to over there.
如果你不知道该去找谁谈谈……
If you have to use like a
如果你必须使用“like a”这样的表达方式的话……
contact form on a website or if you are writing an email to just like a department email address and you don't know who to address,
可以在网站的联系表单中填写相关信息;或者,如果你要发送电子邮件,也可以直接使用某个部门的电子邮件地址。不过,在发送邮件之前,你可能需要先确认该部门的具体负责人是谁。
you can do that politely with the expression to whom it may concern.
你可以用“致相关人士”这样的措辞,以礼貌的方式表达你的请求。
You can also say to whom it may concern at blah, blah, blah organization or to whom it may concern in the marketing department.
你也可以这样表述:“致相关人士:某某组织(或某某部门的营销部门)”。
So to whom it may concern is a very, very commonly used expression.
因此,对于所有相关的人来说,“So to whom it may concern”是一个非常、非常常用的表达方式。
Native speakers use it all the time when you don't know exactly who is going to receive your email.
当您不确定邮件会发送给谁时,母语使用者会经常使用这种表达方式。
You can use this to show that you're trying to be polite and you're also trying to address that other side appropriately.
你可以用这种方式来表明自己既试图保持礼貌,同时也努力以恰当的方式与对方沟通。