【在職場,寫了Email卻得不到回信?有時候,對方其實在等你給他 #回信的理由】
對於經常要撰寫英文書信的職場人來說,無論是開發或者聯絡,你是否準確的表達,常常決定了對方是否要回覆,也決定了客戶是否認同你。
之前曾有一位負責幫公司申請國外專案資格認證的經理提問,他說一週前,他寫信給認證單位釐清某份文件是否也需要填寫,但對方遲遲沒有回覆,眼看申請認證的截止日期再過三天就要到了,到時認證要是沒拿到,公司就不能賣相關產品,造成公司財務損失...
像經理這樣有求於人,卻又等不到回覆的情境,你我都不陌生。為什麼對方不趕快回信呢?明明這些要求都很簡單啊,明明我們只是要知道一個數據、拿到一份報告、確認一個流程而已,手指頭在鍵盤敲個幾下,就可以回信了不是嗎?為什麼都過了一週,卻還沒有消息呢?
其實,我們在職場時常會收到一些「#無理要求」的email。這裡的無理並非無理取鬧,而是「#沒有理由(no reason)」,意思就是:有人會寫信請他提供數據、報告或幫忙處理一些事,但卻都沒解釋「為什麼」,看得他滿頭問號,覺得「我有義務做這些事嗎?」應該沒有很急吧?有時甚至遇到要求涉及機密,更讓他不知所措,乾脆統統不回,收件匣裡一堆信不知如何整理。
這邊舉一個容易被已讀不回的句子:
Could you please send me the latest figure by Jan 11?(可以請你在1月11之前寄給我報告嗎?)
文法正確,但字面上因為少了「為什麼」的解釋,無法令人感受到回信的「急迫性」!
這時只要善用 so that(如此一來),在句子後面補上應該要快點回覆的「理由」,例如,對方只要回信就能:解決什麼問題、達到什麼目的、完成什麼人的要求、趕上什麼時間點等,對收件者「明示」若不早點回信,可能會造成的影響是什麼。
比方說:Could you please send back the latest figure by Jan 11 so that we can finish the test by its deadline?(請在1月11日之前寄回報告,如此一來我們才能在截止日期前完成測試。)
看完 so that 之後的原因後,收件者就會「很清楚」知道若沒有即時回信是會有「代價」的,自然就會加速回信囉!
所以,想要加速對方回信,其實很簡單!就是:給對方一個理由,告訴他「為什麼」這些數據、報告、事情「應該」要馬上處理。
在英文聽說讀寫中,「寫Email」是唯一有機會「速成」的技巧!因為不用面對面即時回應,我們有充足的時間,可以利用平常蒐集的句型、結構、谷歌大神,還有其他各類工具來幫助我們。
這門Joy老師的【商務Email的結構化寫作法】課程,非常強調 #即戰力,把所有壓箱寶一次交給大家,目標是讓大家隔天就能看出明顯的進步。
>>https://bit.ly/38IxaxW
no reason 意思 在 蔡依橙的閱讀筆記 Facebook 的精選貼文
更新,後來我去找了訪問的原文,我覺得這邊其實是有爭議的。請大家閱讀測驗一下。
我看過之後認為,佛奇實際的意思,是說,你們這些參議員說得太扯了,美國沒有參與中國研發病毒。而他支持更多的調查。
但因為記者剛剛問他,你覺得病毒是自然產生的嗎?而他第一句就回:不,這就是我說過的重點。出現的時機很不好。
就字面上,跟就前後文意,的確有兩種解讀方式。
PolitiFact: That has been the subject of a lot of our fact checking on the coronavirus for the past year. And like you said, there's a lot of cloudiness around the origins of COVID-19 still. So I wanted to ask, are you still confident that it developed naturally?
Fauci: No, actually, that's the point that I said. And I think the real unfortunate aspect of what Sen. Paul did is he was conflating research in a collaborative way with Chinese scientists, which was, you know, you'd almost have to say, if we did not do that we would almost be irresponsible because SARS-CoV-1 clearly originated in China, and we were fortunate to escape a major pandemic. So we really had to learn a lot more about the viruses that were there, about whether or not people were getting infected with bad viruses. So in a very minor collaboration as part of a subcontract of a grant, we had a collaboration with some Chinese scientists. And what he conflated is that therefore we were involved in creating the virus which is the most ridiculous majestic leap I've ever heard of. But no, I'm not convinced about that. I think that we should continue to investigate what went on in China until we find out to the best of our ability exactly what happened. Certainly the people who've investigated say it likely was the emergence from an animal reservoir that then infected individuals, but it could have been something else. And we need to find that out. So, you know, that's the reason why I said I'm perfectly in favor of any investigation that looks into the origin of the virus.
https://www.politifact.com/article/2021/may/14/transcript-what-dr-fauci-told-politifact/
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反川陣營,把川普換掉後,漸漸地也走上了川普本來走的道路。
「曾再三堅決反對川普政府關於中國病毒實驗室起源論的美國國家過敏與傳染病研究院(NIAID)院長佛奇(Anthony Fauci),如今改口稱,他「不相信」病毒起源於自然。」
「佛奇曾經在《國家地理》雜誌2020年5月的一篇文章中聲稱,所有的證據都「強烈表明」病毒來自於自然,同時他「基於科學證據」,不接受病毒的實驗室逃逸論。
他的這一番講話,被當時的主流媒體解讀為對川普政府認為武漢病毒研究所與病毒來源有關的斥責。」
no reason 意思 在 Goodbye HK, Hello UK Facebook 的最佳貼文
左翼串左膠特別好力
今日工黨前首相Tony Blair上電視,仲响右翼平民(最賣得嘅)報紙《Daily Mail》出文批評左膠誤國誤黨(工黨),
"The problem is that, in an era where people want change in a changing world, and a fairer, better and more prosperous future, the radical progressives aren't sensible and the sensible aren't radical."
(响每個人都想改變世界,擁有更公平同繁榮未來嘅時代,最大嘅問題係極端進步派(即係左膠)唔夠理性,而理性嘅人唔夠激進去抗衡。)
"Progressive folk tend to wince at terms such as 'woke' and 'political correctness' but the normal public know exactly what they mean. And the battle is being fought on ground defined by the Right because sensible progressives don't want to be on the field at all."
(理性左翼從來都避免用「醒覺」同「政治正確」呢啲詞彙,因為大眾太清楚呢啲字背後嘅意思,仲已經係由右翼定義咗為(負面)戰場,有常理嘅都唔應該去打呢類泥漿摔角。)
"The consequence is that the 'radical' progressives, who are quite happy to fight on that ground, carry the standard. The fact that it ensures continued Right-wing victory doesn't deter them at all. On the contrary, it gives them a heightened sense of righteousness, like political kamikaze."
(偏偏啲左膠好鍾意帶住啲標準去打,結果咪令右翼更加啱囉,左膠永遠都輸㗎,結果同政治神風特擊隊一樣不停送死。)
"People like common sense, proportion and reason. They dislike prejudice; but they dislike extremism in combating prejudice."
(人嘅天性係喜歡常識、客觀同常理,唔鍾意偏見,不過更討厭就係以極端對付偏見。)
佢仲特別遠距離抽擊美國民主黨,
"And truth be told, no sensible Democrat or democrat should overplay the Biden victory. He won against an incumbent like no other; even then, Donald Trump increased his number of votes in the 2020 presidential election from 2016."
(真相越辯越明,正常嘅民主黨人係唔應該為阿登當選特別高興,佢贏咗Donald Trump係事實,但咪忘記Trump嘅選票比2016年多咗好多。)
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