
英语应用文写作-元旦晚会通知.docx
4页英语应用文写作元旦晚会通知 刘继华【写作任务】假定你是学生会主席李华,你校将组织一场元旦晚会(New Year party),请你用英语写一则书面通知,告知你校的国际交换生参加,内容包括:(1)时间、地点;(2)晚会节目安排;(3)欢迎参加学生原文】NoticeWith the New Year approaching, a fancinating⑴ New Year party will be organized⑵ from 18:00 to 21:00 on Dec. 29th. Exchange students can participate in it, too.⑶The party will⑷ consist of two parts. First, each class will put on an excellent performance based on students’taste, whose topic ranges from adapted historical acts to sing and dancing.⑸As for the second part, we will have some quizes⑹, and winners will be given some delicate gifts⑺.Your participation⑻ is sincerely welcomed.The Student Union【劉教授批改】(1)拼写错误,正确的拼写是fascinating。
2)organize用在这里不准确,organize an event or activity的意思是make sure that the necessary arrangements are made(含有“事先安排好”的意思),但后面却有具体的晚会举办时间(18:00 to 21:00),改为held更合适3)这句话是汉语“交换生也能参加”的字面翻译,属于汉语式表达首先,情态动词can用在这里不合适:(1)You use “can” to indicate that someone has the ability or opportunity to do something.(有能力做某事);(2)You use “can” to indicate that someone is allowed to do something.(允许某人做某事)显然,这里需要表达的并不是这两层意思,而是“邀请”的意思,改为:Exchange students are (warmly) invited to participate in it. 其次,too用在这里也不合适这个衔接词的前面并没有值得衔接的成分。
如果前一句有哪一类学生应邀参加,后一句可以用too4)在发布这个通知的时候,晚会的内容应该是已经确定好了的,是一个事实(fact)这里用will反而含有不确定性5)这句话的问题较多首先是选词:excellent属于评价词,用于自身有自我吹嘘之嫌,最好用事实性的形容词,如long-prepared, carefully-designed等Based on students’ taste这里的students指代不清楚,究竟是哪些同学的品位?可以改为each class will put on their long-prepared and choice performance ... 这里的choice是形容词,意思是“appealing to refined taste(精选的,高品位的)”sing改为singing;historical acts改为historical plays, acts在这里容易误解为“行为”其次是结构:whose从句显得臃肿,没有必要使用,改为:each class will put on their long-prepared and choice performance, such as adapted historical plays, singing and dancing. 或each class will put on their long-prepared and choice performance, adapted historical plays, singing and dancing, just to mention a few.(6)quiz的复数形式为quizzes。
7)delicate这个词不仅有“精美的”意思,还含有“容易损坏的”意思(exquisitely fine and subtle and pleasing; susceptible to injury),改为:precious/valuable/memorable/interesting/selective/beautiful/fanciful gifts8)participation的意思是“sharing in the activity of a group, engagement, involvement”(参与活动当中)但从通知的内容看,并未要求交换生准备节目,而只是出席晚会,因此改为attendance刘教授总结】这则通知比较准确地表达了要求表达的内容,但缺少告知晚会的地点语言上的主要问题有:(1)选词不准确,大多基于汉语的意思来选词建议今后记忆单词时,多记英语的释义2)情态动词can, will的掌握不到位,建议平时阅读时多注意情态动词使用的语境3)因刻意追求语法结构的多样性,导致内容表达不清晰、不简明应用文的功能是清晰、准确地传达信息,复杂的句子结构适得其反 -全文完-。












