賴世雄英語書信通Unit 28：友人告誡放松心情回函

March 20, 2005

Dear Terry,

I was very pleased to receive your letter. I knew you were probably too busy to write back immediately. It must be difficult running your own company. I can’t say that I envy you. You should try not to put too much pressure on yourself. We’re not so young anymore, and too much stress is unhealthy.

You should try to delegate more responsibilities to your employees so you don’t have to do as much. Also, is it really necessary for you to expand? I know you are doing well financially. You should take some time to enjoy some of that money. Go ahead and take that vacation!

I hope you don’t object to my giving you all this advice. Whether you take it or not, I wish you all the best.

Sincerely,

Robert Wilcox

親愛的泰瑞：

我很高興接到你的來信。我知道你可能太忙以致于不能立刻回我的信。經(jīng)營你自己的公司一定很困難。我不能說我羨慕你。你應該設法不要把太多的壓力往自己身上攬。我們都不再年輕，太多的壓力是有害健康的。

你應該設法把更多的責任分派給你的員工，那么你就不必做這么多了。此外，你真的需要擴充嗎?我知道你的財務狀況很不錯。你應該花點時間把賺得的錢拿一部份去享受一下。去度個假吧!

我希望你不會對我所給你的這些忠告持反對意見。不論你接受與否，祝萬事如意。

羅勃特?威爾寇斯敬上

2005年3月20日

字詞解說：

1. please 使高興

be pleased to V高興……

例:The boss was pleased to see everyone working hard.

(老板很高興看到每個人都在努力工作。)

2. run 經(jīng)營

例:He's a good designer, but he doesn't know how to run a business.

(他是一個優(yōu)秀的設計師，但他不知道如何經(jīng)營生意。)

3. envy 羨慕

例:Everyone envies that handsome guy.

(每個人都羨慕那個帥哥。)

4. pressure .壓力

put pressure on sb對某人施加壓力，壓迫某人

例:The manager put pressure on the workers to get the job done faster.

(經(jīng)理對員工施加壓力要他們快點把工作做好。)

5.not.二anymore不再……

例:Your daughter is not a child anymore, so stop treating her like one.

(你的女兒不再是個小孩了，所以別再把她當小孩子對待了。)

6.stress;，.壓力，強調(diào)

under the stress of…在……的壓力之下

例:That teacher lays a lot of stress on good handwriting.

(那個老師很強調(diào)字體的工整。)

Anthony is about to break down under the stress of caring for his large family.

(安東尼為了要照顧他的大家庭快要崩潰了。)

7. unhealthy仁nrihel6y a.不健康的，有害健康的

例:Living in such a polluted environment is unhealthy.

(住在如此遭受污染的環(huán)境中是有害健康的。)