Useful Expressions
1. I am pleased to write a letter of recommendation for sb.
很乐于写此信推荐某人。
2. I wish to recommend sb. for the position of …
希望推荐某人任…职位。
3. I have no hesitation in recommending sb. for the post of …
毫不犹豫地推荐某人任…职位。
4.I was asked to write a letter of recommendation for sb.
本人受托写此信推荐某人。
5. I heartily recommend sb. as an addition to your staff. He has worked directly under me
for …years.
我衷心推荐某人成为您的一名职员。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 …
很高兴借此机会向您推荐某人—— 我的…，作为一名…进入你大学深造。
7. When he studied in my university, he passed all courses with either excellent or good marks.
他在我校学习期间，以优良的成绩通过所有的课程。
8. He is a responsible research worker, and his graduation paper shows that he has considerable
ability to…
他是一位负责的研究人员，他的毕业论文显示了他…不凡的能力。
9. I have found him to be a hardworking, competent, honest, diligent, reliable…worker.
我觉得他是一位勤奋、有能力、诚实、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.
若能接受他为您的研究生，我将不胜感激。
Practice
Practice 1
写一封推荐信给一家合资公司，推荐你的好朋友李军担任技术部主任。
李军曾在国内从医四年，后在英国取得医学博士学位。希望在药品开发方面发展。在你们相识的十年中，你认为他是一位勤奋好学，不断进取，具有责任心的学者。
你坚信他必定在该岗位做出成绩。该推荐信如能得到该公司的认真对待，你将非常感激。
Practice 2
假设你叫李平，教育学院英语教授，英语系主任，你推荐张鸣先生为一研究院博士生。张先生曾为浙江大学外语系研究生，毕业后在你校任教。
他既有学术能力，又极富责任感。你对他的才华及热情有很深的印象，他整个学期的课都安排得十分合理，进行得十分顺利。
他性格开朗，诚实可靠，深受师生厚爱。
参考答案：
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
