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1. Greetings問候
Good morning / afternoon, professor(s).

2. Background背景
My name is _______. I was brought up in Taichung City where there is a railroad crossing near my home. There are seven members in my family; they are my dear grandfather, parents, two sisters, my precious puppy and I.

3. Personality個人特質

FW to 以為老闆用英文稱讚你？誤會大了！ - 商業周刊

1、I hear what you say.我聽到你說的話了。
（誤解）He accepts my point of view.（他接受我的觀點）
（正解）I disagree and do not want to discuss it further.（我不贊成也不想再討論。）

撰文者：世界公民文化中心

Life is like a snowball. The important thing is finding wet snow and a really long hill. -Warren Buffet

人生就像滾雪球。最重要的事是找到夠濕的雪和一道長長的山坡。-華倫‧巴菲特

「你最想為哪一家企業工作？」這是我們最常問社會新鮮的一句話。很單純的一個問題，但得到的答案大部份是：「沒特別想過！」「都可以。」「不一定。」「看哪家公司會覺得我有貢獻」。

年輕人應該大膽想、大膽說、大膽做，一起來讀巴菲特二十五歲的抉擇，希望帶來一點啟發。

問題一：Email 主旨要簡短有力，才會讓人一看就懂？

首先，主旨欄千萬不可以空白，否則可能會導致email被 當成垃圾信件。

再來，若信件內容經雙方一再的往來答覆，內文的討論事項已脫離原主旨，

那麼請務必刪除先前的信件內文，並換上一個新的主旨，

一來是讓收件人更清楚信件內容，二來是方便日後搜尋信件和資料歸檔。

 文／周強 (Tim Chou)

Tom Cruise is an American film actor and producer, and he started his career at age 19 in a 1981 film.

「湯姆克魯斯是美國的電影男演員與製作人，他19歲起在一部1981年的電影裡展開他的演藝生涯。」英文裡的「製造」是produce，其名詞是production，加上代表「人」的字尾「-er」之後，就是「製作人」的producer。此外，actor通常指「男」演員，而女演員是actress。阿湯哥19歲即出道，在2001年的時候，升格為製作人。

Is my computer outdated or state-of-the-art?

In this vocabulary lesson, I will teach you words that can be used to describe technology and computers.

This video will help you to improve your vocabulary and score higher marks on the TOEFL and IELTS.

Watch to find out if you are a technophile or a technophobe, if your computer is cutting-edge and user-friendly, and whether you prefer technology to be bulky or compact.

photo：cursoblue.com

1. Make Your Reader the First Priority
把讀者放在首位  
    Be organized and to the point. Stay focused in your writing and write briefly so you do not waste the reader’s time.

2. Write a Good Subject Line

看棒球學英文，例如base在英文裡有「基地」、「基礎」之意，而在棒球裡，一壘是first base，一壘手是first baseman；而本壘是home base，而全壘打是擊出球之後，一路跑回本壘，所以棒球術語裡稱它為home run。字尾「-er」用來表示「人」或「物」，所以全壘打除了home run，又稱為homer。

「安 打」是hit，「犧牲打」是sacrifice。英文的field原是「田地、田野」，平常職場上也有「場地、領域」之意，例如科技界稱為 「in the technology field」。但是在棒球場上，「內野」是infield ，「外野」是outfield，而「內野手」是infielder。「雙殺」是double play；「投手」是pitcher，而「捕手」是catcher；遭「淘汰」則是be eliminated。

這些看似專門的棒球術語，其實也是平日用語中演變而來。

此次世界棒球經典賽中台灣帶來的「經典」，用經典賽官網中對中華隊與古巴之戰的描寫，最為傳神。它是這麼說的:

Baseball had suffered through a few lean years recently in Taiwan, and many hope the sport is slowly on the upswing.  The Chinese Taipei team is hoping its performance at the Classic helps get things turned around.

“Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while.

That’s because they were able to connect experiences they’ve had and synthesize new things. And the reason they were able to do that was that they’ve had more experiences or they have thought more about their experiences than other people.”

「創新只是把東西連接起來，當你問有創造力的人他們如何辦到某事，他們會感到有點罪惡感因為他們並沒有真的辦到，他們只是看見某件事，一段時間過後，這對他們而言顯得很清楚。那是因為他們能夠連接過去的經驗並組合成新的東西，而他們能夠做到如此的原因是比起其它人他們有更多的經驗或更深入地思考他們的經驗。

<多益測驗官方全真試題指南III> 的Test 2之中，就有一組以「保固說明」做為材料的閱讀測驗題。雖然文字的內容僅在陳述該公司產品的保固服務內容，但是出題者的立意令人驚豔。

這間名為Tylart Electronics的電子器材公司，在這篇文字的第一句話就告訴了我們，它是保固說明(warranty)，它寫道：

Tylart Warranty Service is provided for all Tylart computers purchased directly from a Tylart store or from an official Tylart retailer.

A speeding driver was pulled over by a police. The driver said:
"Officer, I'm just racing home because I shouldn't be driving without a driver's license."

一名超速的駕駛被警察攔住要他把車開到路邊。駕駛回答說：「警察先生，我開快車回家的原因是，我沒有駕照所以不能開車。」
(speeding是超速，pull over是把車開到路邊，driver's license是駕駛執照)