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主题：【原创】老板关于writing的邮件，和大家分享 -- 老马丁
家园 【原创】老板关于writing的邮件，和大家分享 个人觉得写得很好。这几天老板突然重视起俺的writing了，可能是怕俺给他丢人吧。
P.S. I recommend you continue to get intimate with Chicago Manual of
Style, or Strunk and White's "Elements of Style." This means not just
typing something once or twice, and cutting and pasting from a software
program, but reading your writing out loud in your mind and imagining
whether you would understand and be pursuaded if the material were new
to you. Then rewriting, rewriting, rewriting, until it looks as good as
what you see in a good journal article. Good writing takes a tremendous
amount of effort from the writer, but should be realatively effortless
for the reader--or at least as effortless as is possible given the
difficulty of the material that is being covered. This means checking,
rechecking, and rechecking again for the flow, progression of ideas,
macro organization, micro organization, punctuation, no spelling errors,
no extraneous spaces or lack of spaces(!), two spaces after a period,
removing excess words, logic, simplicity, and attending to your voice
which comes through in writing.
家园 "Elements of Style." 偶已经记不清有几个人（华人和洋人）向我推荐过这本书了，看来真是经典啊。
家园 刚刚跟老板通过电话 说他的意见被很多朋友欣赏。老板很高兴，说花了好半天才写好呢。又说，俺们靠这吃饭，一定要掌握好。
家园 遇到这样认真又热心的老板是福气。对头一句有点疑问 I recommend you continue to get intimate with
前三个词，俺比较自信地认为，规范的英文应该是：I recommend that you (do)...
兄弟的老板省掉了那个 that，不影响表意，但不符合英文书写规范，所以读来感觉有点别扭。
第二个疑问，不那么有把握 --- continue to do something. 俺怎么觉得是 continue doing something 更好呢？
从逻辑上讲，如果你还没有做一件事，那么老板让你“继续”做这件事，就显得不合逻辑。如果你已经在做这件事了，老板希望你坚持做下去，如果是这种情况，则似乎用 continue doing something 为宜。也许俺错啦？
老板的其他建议都非常中肯。
家园 我觉得煮酒是对的 类似stop to do something和stop doing something的区别。
家园 俺对表达法不清楚的话， 就上Google搜他的。
以最常用的动词take 为例，
continue to take 返回1，290，000项。
continue taking 返回 766，000项。应该都行吧。
家园 如果不是跟在recommend, suggest, insist, require... + that 这种东西之后，那当然都可以。但跟在这种东西后面，俺印象中 continue to do 的用法比较少，大部分都是 continue doing.
一般的陈述句、疑问句用 continue to do 是很正常的，比如：Why does our company continue to do business with small vendors? 当然，这里换成 continue doing 也没问题。
但在建议、劝说、要求的句式下，continue to do 就比较少见，而多用 continue doing，比如：I suggest that we continue doing business with small vendors.
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家园 非常有用，受教 家园 two spaces after a period 这也算毛病吗？
这老板写email很认真啊。我很讨厌那种意识流一样没有组织的，拼写标点都不注意的email。
家园 不是毛病。 老板提倡句号后空两格，说是更好的帮读者更好的从头到尾研读一个句子。当然，句号后一个格子也行。
家园 这不是毛病 反而是应该注意的吧
这也算毛病吗？- 复 这不是毛病
家园 为啥要two spaces after a period呢？ 网上看到下面这个解释：
"The only reason that two spaces were used after a period during the 'typewriter' age was because original typewriters had monospaced fonts -- the extra space was needed for the eye to pick up on the beginning of a new sentence. That need is negated w/proportional space type, hence [it is] the typographic standard."所以说我们现在写email的时候好像不再需要two spaces after a period。特地看了一下俺的英文书，好像也都是single space after a period。
