借物

（Borrowing）

　　例

　　Directions：You are going to write a note for borrowing sth. please deseribe these information clearly.

　　1） the thing you ask

　　2） detailed what you are going to do with it.

　　3） how long will you take it.

　　Tuesday

　　Dear Xiao Wang：

　　I wonder if I could borrow your electronic dictionary for a few days. Now I am translating some important articles. There are many new words which I have to look up the dictionary usually. I just have a paper dictionary but of course it's not as convenient as the electronic one， which has a bad effect upon my velocity of my translating. So I think your electonic dictionary is more suitable for me to complete my work. I promise that I must be very careful of your dictionary and make no damage done on it. Thank you very much！

　　Yours ever

　　×××

　　*字典是我们日常生活中常用的学习工具，但是千万不能直接从字面上认为“查字典”就是“check the dictionary”，而应该用“look up”这个固定短语来表达。

　　“影响……”有一个很地道的短语。“have effect upon/on”，后面接受影响的人或物，如果是积极影响就在have和effect之间加a good ，反之，就加“a bad”其他的形容词例如great， remarkable也可以用来修饰effect，此词在这里是名词。