unit 418
推荐书籍

英语情景对话

To: Zhang Jian
收件人：张剑
From: Lily Wong
发件人：莉莉·王
Date:April 26, 2002
日期：2002年4月26日
Subjed:Crafting Beautiful English Sentences
主题：构思精美的英语句子
Zhang Jian, Hi.
嘿，张剑：
If you recall, we "met" in cyberspace the other day chatting about the challenges of writing essays in English.
如果你还记得，我们前些日子曾在电脑空间里“见面”，聊起英文写作何等之不易。
A recent search on DangDang.com showed that a certain Mr. Gu Yue has put out a book called "Crafting Beautiful English Sentences."
最近我在当当网站上检索，发现一本谷约先生写的书，名为《构思精美的英语句子》。
The book, published by Shi He Zhi Shi, is sad to have Chinese learners of English as target readers
这本由世界知识出版社出版的书，是以学习英语的中国人为目标读者群，

 

and it addresses a range of topics from choice of words to sentence structures to editing to stylistic considerations.
探讨了一系列问题，包括遣词造句、句子结构、编辑修改和写作风格。
What strikes me the most is that the book deals in great length with the issue of how to break away from the influence of Chinese language structures and thinking patterns,
而其中最让入寻味的是这本书花了很长的篇幅讲解如何克暇和消除中文语言结构，
which, as you and I agreed, seem to stand in the way of crafing good English sentences.
思维方式对构思优美的英文句子所构成的种种障碍。
The book is worth checking out. I just thought you might be interested.
你我都觉得中文语言结构和思维方式确实对构思优美的英文句子会构成障碍。这本书值得查阅。我想你也许会感兴趣。