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英语写作正式性解析：如何根据读者选择适当语气

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本文解析英语写作中正式性与非正式性的差异，教你如何根据读者选择合适的语气，并通过词汇调整实现不同的写作风格。

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Let's start by looking at formality. To help us decide how formal to be, we have to ask ourselves the question, who am I writing to? We can't really say there's an absolute formal style and an absolute informal style, so it might be better to think of a line between very formal and very informal with neutral somewhere in between. As long as we choose somewhere approximately along the line that's appropriate for the situation, we should be okay. Think about these situations where you're writing to someone. Would you be more formal or more informal or just neutral?

So now you know that the relationship between the writer and the reader helps us to decide whether to be formal or informal, but how do we make our writing formal or informal? Read the following three emails and decide which one is formal, which one is neutral, and which is informal. What helped you decide? You probably looked at how the words were different, right? Well that is one way we can change the formality. We changed the vocabulary.

部分单词释义

vocabulary
名词（某一语言的）词汇; （尤指外语教科书中附有释义的）词汇表
1. （某人所掌握的）词汇,词汇量
Your vocabulary is the total number of words you know in a particular language.
e.g. His speech is immature, his vocabulary limited...
他说话很幼稚，使用的词汇有限。
e.g. We read to improve our vocabularies.
我们阅读以便扩大词汇量。
2. (某一语言的）词汇，词汇量
The vocabulary of a language is all the words in it.
e.g. ...a new word in the German vocabulary.
德语词汇中的一个新词
3. 专业词汇
The vocabulary of a subject is the group of words that are typically used when discussing it.
e.g. ...the vocabulary of natural science.
自然科学词汇
formality
名词礼节; 拘谨; 正式手续
1. 形式;仪式;俗套
If you say that an action or procedure is just a formality, you mean that it is done only because it is normally done, and that it will not have any real effect on the situation.
e.g. With the Cold War almost over, the talks were a mere formality.
随着冷战即将结束，对话就只是一种形式了。
2. 程序;正式手续
Formalities are formal actions or procedures that are carried out as part of a particular activity or event.
e.g. They are whisked through the immigration and customs formalities in a matter of minutes.
给他们办理入境和通关手续只用了短短几分钟时间。