礼仪讲话的常见类型及其特点
主要包括祝酒词、各种场合的开幕式（opening ceremony )和闭幕式(closing ceremony)祝词和答谢词, mostly including
A: 称呼：即讲话的对象，如：
Ladies and Gentlemen,
Your honor Mr. Mayor,
Respected Dr. smith,
Your excellency President and Mrs. President (Bush)
B. 代表…向…表示感谢/祝贺等客套话，如：
• On behalf of all the members of my delegation, I would like to take this opportunity to express our sincere thanks to our host for their gracious hospitality.
• C: 正文： 既讲话的主要部分
• D: 结尾： 在礼仪讲话的结尾部分，讲话人常常要再次向讲话的对象表示感谢。如果是宴会祝酒辞，讲话人常常提议为…… 干杯。
C.表达感谢的词句
Gratitude
I am full of gratitude to you for helping me with my English
Appreciation
The audience showed their appreciation with loud cheers.
He showed little appreciation of my advice
I am very grateful to receive this award for “Best Actress”
I can’t begin to tell you how much I appreciate this great honor (我说不出．．．，无法用语言来表达．）
I also want to express my gratitude to all of my teachers over the years, but especially to my acting teacher.
I want to express my appreciation to all of my friends for their support, especially to Martin Miller, for being there when I needed him.
E句型
• I am very grateful…
• I want to thank …for…
• I want to express my gratitude to
• I want to express my appreciation to…
• …means a great deal to me.
• Words can’t express…
F.练习
• 致开幕/闭幕/欢迎词 :
• Deliver/make an opening/closing/welcome speech/address
• 陛下：Your\\His\\Her Majesty
• 殿下： Highness/Excellency/Royal Highness
• 1 请允许我借此机会，祝愿先生，祝愿出席今晚招待会的所有中国朋友，身体健康，万事如意。
• On the occasion of this reception, I wish Mr. Mayor and our Chinese friends present here tonight good health and all the best.
• 2 为此， 我们热烈欢呼第四届妇女大会的召开，并预祝大会成功。
• For this, we warmly herald the opening of the Fourth World Conference on Women and wish the Conference a complete success
• 3. 在我结束讲话之际，我请各位与我一同举杯，为布什总统和夫人的身体健康，
• 为所有贵宾们的身体健康，
• 为我们两国之间持久的友谊和合作，
• 为世界和平与繁荣，干杯！
• In closing, I would like you to join me in a toast ( I would like to propose a toast)
• To the health of President and Mrs. Bush,
• To the health of all our distinguished guests,
• To the lasting friendship and cooperation between our two
nations( countries),
• To the peace and prosperity of the world.
• 4在结束讲话之际，我向罗杰斯阁下表示问候，希望他早日恢复健康。
• I would like to conclude my speech with my best regards to His Honor Mayor
Rodgers. I wish him an early recovery \\an early return to his office.
• 5.感谢各位拨冗参加我们的庆典宴会，与我们一起参加这家分支机构的成立。
• Thank you for taking time(taking time off your busiest schedule) to join this party to celebrate with us the establishment of this new (branch) office.
• 值此大会开幕之际，我为能有机会就环境保护问题进行发言，向东道主致以谢意。
• On the occasion of this opening ceremony, I would like to express my appreciation to the host for this opportunity to address the meeting on the topic of environmental protection.
• 我很荣幸能应邀参加大会的闭幕式，并作发言。
• I am greatly honored to be invited to attend and speak at the closing ceremony of the conference .
• 首先，我谨向与会的所有代表致以崇高的敬意和节日的问候。
• May I begin with my high respects and festive greetings to all the representatives present at the conference.
• 我愿借此机会，就中英经贸关系的发展前景，发表自己的一些不太成熟的看法，供各位参考。
• On this occasion I wish to discuss with you my tentative\\preliminary\\not too well-conceived thoughts on the prospects of Sino-British economic and trade relationship.