英语邀请信及回复的常用表达

（1）邀请信

邀请信分为两种:个人信函和事务信函。个人信函如邀请某人共进晚餐、观看电影、参加宴会、出席典礼等，而邀请参加会议、学术活动等则属于事务信函。

个人名义的邀请信邀请的对象一般是朋友、熟人，故而内容、格式上的要求都比较松，用词用语可以随便一些。只要表明邀请的意图，说明活动的内容、时间、地点等关键信息即可。但既然需要以书面信函的形式邀请，也意味着相对口头邀请正式一些，那就一定要在信中表达非常希望对方能够出席或参加的愿望。这种邀请信的篇幅可以简短。

事务性邀请信一般以会议或学术活动的组委会的名义发出，可以由某一个负责人来写，且被邀请者通常也是属于比较有威望的人士。因此，这类邀请信的措辞要相对正式，语气要热情有礼。

这一类邀请信通常要包括以下内容:首先，表明邀请对方参加的意图以及会议或学术活动的名称、时间、地点;其次，要对被邀请者的威望和学术水平等表示推崇和赞赏，表明如果被邀请者能够接受邀请，会给会议或者活动带来很好的影响;再次，要说明会议或活动的相关事宜，最好是能引起对方兴趣的事宜，当然不能忘了表达希望对方能够参加的诚意;最后，还要请收信人对发出的邀请做出反馈，如确认接受邀请。

邀请信常用表达如下:

I’m writing to invite you to...

I would be very pleased to invite you to attend our annual conference.

It would be a great pleasure to me if you could come to the party.

Would you like to come to our dinner party on Saturday evening？

It would give us a great pleasure to have your presence at the conference.

I wonder if you would be able to join us for dinner tomorrow evening.

It would be an honor to me if you would accept our invitation.

Your participation will be among the highlights of the Conference.

You are an internatinal acclaimed...we would be all honored by your attendance.

Enclosed is our preliminary schedule for the conference.

As expected，please kindly reply to this letter and upon then I will arrange things accordingly.

Sample 1

Dear Jane，

We have four tickets for a famous film shown at Guangming Cinema，The Longest Day，Eriday，the ninth.Will you join us？It would be pleasant to have you and your younger sister here.We’ll be looking for you at eight sharp Eriday night in front of the cinema，so don’t disappoint us！I’m sure we can have a great time.

Look forward to seeing you.

Warmest regards.

Alice

Sample 2

Dear Professor Wang，

On behalf of the Ohio State University and the IEEE Computer Society，I would be very pleased to invite you to attend and chair a session of the forthcoming 2004 International Conference on Parallel Data Processing to be held in Bellaire，Michigan，from October 25 to October 28，2004.

You are an internationally acclaimed scholar and educator.Your participation will be among the highlights of the Conference.

We sincerely hope that you could accept our invitation.As you know，this is the 10th anniversary of the Conference and we plan to make it a truly international meeting.We have accepted many papers from several foreign countries，including two from China.

If you can come，please let us know as soon as possible，since we have to prepare the final program soon.We are looking forward to your acceptance.(www.xing528.com)

Sincerely yours，

Peter White

本文摘自《实用综合英语(法律方向)(2)》(2014)

(2)邀请信的回复

无论收到哪种邀请信都要及时回复，明确表示接受与否和对邀请者的感谢之意。接受邀请的回信一般包含以下内容:首先，感谢对方的邀请，并重述邀请信中的关键内容;然后，愉快地表示接受邀请，并简要说明自己的打算;最后，表示期待赴会和与对方见面的心情。常用表达方式如下:

Thank you for inviting me to your party.

I will be very happy to accept your kind invitation to speak at the meeting.

I shall be very glad/pleased if you can send me more details of the program.

I’m sorry I can’t attend the meeting because of a previous engagement.

Thank you for thinking of me，and perhaps you would be kind enough to repeat your invitation at some later date.

Please accept my apologies for the delay in acknowledging your invitation for dinner.

It was thoughtful of you to invite me，and I am extremely sorry I cannot accept.I do hope you will ask me again some time！

Please accept my regrets，and I’ll try to make it next time.

Sample 1

Dear Alice，

Thank you very much for your invitation.It will be great pleasure for me to join you on Eriday for the wonderful film.I will arrive at the cinema before eight.I look forward to meeting you on Eriday.

Thank you for thinking of me.

Yours，

Jane

Sample 2

30th August，2013

Dear Mr.White，

Many thanks for your letter dated 21st August and I’m pleased to confirm my participation in the annual conference on“Globalization and Its Challenges to Legal Education”to be held in Bellaire，Michigan，from November 25 to 28，2013.

It will be a great honor to see so many renowned professors there.I’m looking forward to talking with them and hearing their views on the globalization of legal education.

I would be grateful if you could send me further details about the conference and accommodation arrangements.

Looking forward to seeing you in the conference.

Sincerely yours，

Wang Lei