英語邀請信的寫作以及回復

　　Dear Alice,

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

　　Thank you for thinking of me.

　　Yours,

　　Jane

　　謝絕邀請的`回信一般包含以下幾方面的內容：首先還是要對對方的邀請表示感謝；然后具體說明自己無法接受邀請的原因，并對無法出席表示遺憾；最后表達自己的祝愿，即祝愿自己未能參加的會議或者活動能夠順利進行。下面是一封謝絕邀請的信，與上面的第二封邀請信相對應：

　　Dear Professor White,

　　Many thanks for your letter dated 15th August, inviting me 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 28, 2004.

　　Much to my regret, I shall not be able to honor the invitation because I have been suffering from a disease since this summer. I am firmly advised that it would be unwise to undertake any distant and long travel in the near future.

　　I feel very sad to miss the opportunity of meeting you and many others in the field of Computer Science. I wish the conference a complete success. Faithfully yours,