邮件的组成部分 Structure of the email

Part 1

You begin the email by asking them short questions about how they are, what they've been doing etc... Between asking them questions, apologise for not contacting them in a long time.

邮件开头通过询问有关他们的近况，在做什么等简短问题。在询问他们问题的时候，对长时间未与他们联系表示歉意。

Part 2

In this part tell them about experiences and situations that have been happening to you or plans that you have in the future. I would also recommend that you ask them questions connected to what you've written about yourself. So, if you have told them something about your job, ask them a question about theirs (e.g. 'Are you still working at .....?').

在这一部分中，告诉他们你的经历和情况或是你的计划。并且建议你问他们有关你自己所写内容的问题。这样的话，如果你告诉他们一些关于您的工作的信息，就可以问他们一个关于他们工作的问题（例如，"您是否还在.....工作？"）。

Part 3

In this part write about and ask them questions about shared interests (e.g. football, music etc...) or about people you both know.

在这一部分中，写下并询问他们有关于你们的共同话题（例如足球，音乐等...）或你们俩共同认识的人。

Part 4

If you are going to invite them to something (e.g. a birthday party etc...) or you want to meet them, do it here at the end. If you are going to ask them to do something for you (and only things which they can do very quickly!), you should write it in this part.

如果你要邀请他们参加某事（例如生日聚会等），或者想见他们，那邮件就到这里结束。如果你要让他们为你做一些事情（只有他们可以很快完成的事情！），则应在此部分中编写。

Part 5

Finish the email by saying that your are looking forward to hearing from them. At the very end, pass on a greeting from somebody else (if you have one) if that person has asked you to (e.g. 'Simon says hi' or 'Sarah gives her love').

邮件结尾，表达你很期待收到他们的来信。最后，如果有某人让你递话（例如，"西蒙跟你打声招呼"或"萨拉献上她的爱"），就帮忙传递别人的问候（如果你有）。

So now that you know what structure you should use, see it used in the below example email. 现在我们已经知道应该使用什么结构，可以在下面的示例邮件中查看具体如何使用。

案例一：

Hi John,

How are you? It's been ages since we last spoke. I hope everything is going well.（问候）

Sorry, I haven't been in contact recently. I've been meaning to write to you for the last couple of months, but I just haven't got round to doing it. Sorry for my laziness.（道歉）

What have you been up to lately? I remember you telling me that you were thinking about moving house. Did you do it or are you still living in the same place?（换成询问公司和业务）

I don't know if you've heard, but since the last time we spoke I left my job. I'm now working at Omega in Manchester. It's a similar job to what I had before, but I have more responsibility (and more hours unfortunately) and the pay is better (which is nice). Are you still working at Tyson or have you changed too?（与上段同，多讲下自己）

I've also bought a new car (a Honda Civic). You know how I don't like to spend money, but I had to buy a new car after the car I had (the blue Ford escort) kept breaking down. The last time it happened, I was in the middle of the nowhere. I had to wait for 2 hours until the break down service arrived!（对于客户邮件这段这个省略掉）

Apart from that, nothing much has changed. I'm still living in the same house in Sheffield and still going trekking in the mountains every other weekend.

A funny thing happened to me and Julia when we were in trekking in Wales about 2 months ago. We were walking up Snowden when it suddenly started to snow. I thought that it wouldn't last for long, so we continued going up. But it did and it got a lot worse. So we decided to turn back and return to the car.（省略）

Unfortunately, when we eventually got back to the car, we couldn't move it because of the snow. After an hour of trying to dig it out, it still wouldn't move. At that point, we had to decide whether we'd stay in the car the night or walk back to the nearest village, which was 10 miles away. We decided to walk to the village.（省略）

It took us over three hours to walk to the village. As you can imagine, Julia wasn't happy. She blamed me for everything and refused to talk to me for most of the journey. An interesting weekend to say the least.（省略）

In summer (so fortunately no snow!) we're planning to go to the Pyrenees in Spain for a week. You've been there, haven't you? Have you got any suggestions of places which we should visit when we are over there?（省略）

Are you still going to watch Leeds United? They are not having a good season this year. But that's nothing new!（省略）

Have you heard anything from Jeff? I was thinking the other day about when we all went to London for the weekend. Do you remember how drunk he was on the Saturday? You had to take him back to the hotel in a taxi and put him to bed. Always trouble, but such a nice guy.（视情况询问是否还从中国进口，今年情况怎么样？）

We really should meet up some time. Go out for a few drinks at the pub? Let me know if you fancy it.

Anyway, I have to get back to doing some work.

Hope to hear from you soon.

Take care,

Bill

S. Julia gives her love.

案例二：

Hi,

How are you? It's been long time since we last spoke. I hope everything is going well.

Sorry, I haven't been in contact recently, the work was put on hold for my personal reasons. I've been meaning to write to you for the last couple of months, but I just haven't got round to doing it. Sorry for my laziness.

Now I am back Srebon company and have the same work to what I did before, but have more responsibility (more hours unfortunately) and the pay is better (which is nice). Apart from that, nothing much has changed. I'm still working in Srebon company and will start to showing you our hot sale sportswear.

What have you been up to lately? Hope that you can share your work and plans with me in your spare time.

Anyway, I have to get back to doing work and expecting we can move forward together.

Best regards,

Jeff Lin