中文、英语请柬、邀请函的不同和英文请柬的格式：
现代的社会是交际的社会，需要举办或参加各种国际或国内的会议以及宴会等，写邀请信和请柬是一个人必备的素质。今天我们就来介绍中文请柬和英文请柬的.格式，并在后面给出中文请柬和英文请柬的范文！
由于邀请信是一种重要的社交书信，它包括正式和非正式两种。正式的邀请信即请柬，它有固定的格式，一般用第三人称书写；非正式的邀请信格式不严格，使用第一人称，称呼也比较自由。
中文请柬和英文请柬、邀请函的格式
中文请柬和英文请柬有固定的格式和措辞，因此不能简单地以单句为单位进行翻译，而应从整个篇章的角度去把握，使译文符合目的语的表达习惯。请看下面这则例子：
Mr. and Mrs. John Smith request the honour of the presence of
Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Brown
at the marriage of their daughter
Elizabeth Smith
to
Mr. John Frederick Hamilton
Saturday, the twenty-ninth of September
at four o'clock p.m.
Church of Heavenly Rest
New York
译文如下：J．A．布朗先生及夫人：兹定于九月二十九日（星期六）下午四时在纽约天安教堂为小女伊丽莎白．史密斯与约翰?弗雷德里克．汉密尔顿先生举行婚礼，届时恭请 光临。约翰．史密斯夫妇谨订。这是一张正式的英文结婚请柬，格式采用固定的分行式。在内容安排上按照“邀请者 被邀请者 邀请之意活动内容 时间 地点”这样的先后顺序。汉语的顺序是“活动时间 活动地点 活动内容 邀请之意邀请者的姓名”，邀请者的姓名应写在右下角，与正文分开。无论是英语请柬还是汉语请柬，在语言上的要求是一致的，都须简洁明了，措辞庄重、文雅，比如，原请柬中为表达邀请之意所用的是“request the honour of the presence of”，翻译时用“恭请光临”与之对应。此外，译文的开头用了“兹定于”，结尾处用“谨订”，这样的用词都体现了请柬正式的文体。但有两点不同：第一，英文请柬从头至尾都采用第三人称，译成中文时，一般应改用第一人称，如：“the marriage of their daughter”译成“为小女”；第二，英文请柬中星期应写在日期之前，译成汉语时，星期应写在日期后面的括号内。 有时请柬下角有一些备注，提醒被邀请人应注意的事项，如：R.S.V.P.：法语 “Répondez s'il vous plait” 的缩写，即 “Please reply”，“请复函”; For regrets only：“若不能来请告知”（regrets意为“谢绝邀请的短柬”）；Dress code：着装要求。
下面是一封英语邀请函、请柬的范文，供大家参考：
July 29, 20xx
XXX, CEO
XXX, VP Sales
XXXXXXXX Corporation
(Address)
It’s our great honor to invite you to visit XXX Company located at (address) in August, 20xx. This visit will provide an opportunity for you to make a better understanding of our marketing issues, and to communicate our future business cooperation in detail.
XXX Company, as one of your distributors in China, has been great progressing in promoting and selling your products. We believe this visit will be of great benefit to our future business cooperation.
Please use this invitation letter to apply for your VISA to China.
We are all looking forward to seeing you soon, and should you have any questions, please feel free to inform me.
Yours truly,
XXX
Vice President Sales
XXX Company
Dear 。。。。
It is my great pleasure to invite you to come and work in my laboratory in the School of 。。。。。。 as a part of your PhD training with 。。。。l University.
The period of training in my laboratory will be for 12 months beginning in September of 20xx. It is my understanding that your stipend and health insurance will be covered by a scholarship from China. I will provide the necessary funds for the supplies required for you to undertake research within my group. No tuition payment will be required by T。。。
I would also like to point out in this letter that I am satisfied that you（。。。）meet our standards in English language proficiency for foreign students. We are looking forward to the time that you will spend with us. I have no doubt that you will make a valuable contribution to our research. Yours sincerely,
Dear :
I have heard so much about from that I almost feel as though I knew him. I would certainly enjoy meeting his mother!
But unfortunately I expect guests myself on ; and therefore cannot accept your invitation for luncheon on that day.
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!
Sincerely yours,
Invitation Letter
MM DD, 20xx
Dear Visa Officer,
I, XXX(passport #: XXX) and my husband, YYY(passport #: YYY), are writing this letter to support of the B-2 visa applications for my father XXX (passport #: XXX) and my mother YYY (passport #: YYY). We invite them to visit us from DD MM YYYY to DD MM YYYY, approximate X months.
During the visit, my parents will live with us in our apartment at XXXX(美国的具体家庭地址). We plan to take them to travel around some famous cities in America, such as New York, Washington DC, Atlantic seashore, Falls of Niagara, Yellowstone National Park, San Diego and so on, to let them know how the Americans and we are living, as well as how we celebrate the Thanksgiving day, the Christmas, and the Chinese New-Year in USA. They will support all their expense, and we will support them in any emergency cases.
I'm now work as XXX（职务） with X visa at XXX company/came to US with X visa to reunion my husband, and my husband work at YYY with Y visa, and currently is
XX(职务) in Department of XXX. Please find photocopies of our passports, USA visa, I-94 and other documents in the supporting material for your reference.
My parents have very strong bonds in XXX, China, it's where they born, grew up, and living, where they have their own house and all their friends. They will return to China after their visit, and we also guarantee they will return to China after the visit.
I greatly appreciate your time to process their applications. Should you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us.
Sincerely yours,
Daughter: XXX （加签名） Son-in-law: YYY （加签名）XXX (职位) YYY(职位)
XXX (部门) YYY (部门)
XXX (单位/学校名字)YYY(单位/学校名字)
Tel: XXX Tel: YYY
Email: XXXEmail: YYY
Dear Lily,
Thank you for your invitation this Saturday. I was too tired these days. It is just a chance to rest myself. You know I like the flowers of cherry blossoms. I have heard that Wuhan University is famous for cherry blossoms. But I have no chance to enjoy it. Your invitation is too exciting. I hope the week end come soon. We will meet at the school gate of the Wuhan University.
Yours sincerely,
Lily
Dear sir/madam:
[organization] would very much like to have someone from your company speak at our conference on [topic].
As you may be aware, the mission of our association is to promote . Many of our members are interested in the achievements your company has made in . Enclosed is our preliminary schedule for the conference which will be reviewed in weeks. I'll call you [date] to see who from your company would be willing to speak to us. I can assure you that we'll make everything convenient to the speaker.
Sincerely yours,
[name]
[title]
Dear steve
Mary my daughter is now eight years old and she have made a lot of friends of like age since we migrated to the estate here. I am sure she will want to tell a lot of her stories when she see you both. And right now she just want me to remind you that there are swimming pool and SPA facilities associated with the estate, therefore it would be good if you like, please bring along the swimming suits, it only take five minutes walk from my house to the facilities so it is very convenient.
Yours, Raymond
Dear sir/madam:
On , we will host an evening of celebration in honor of the retirement of , President of . You are cordially invited to attend the celebration at , , on from to p.m.
has been the President of since . During this period, expanded its business from to . Now it’s our opportunity to thank him for his years of exemplary leadership and wish him well for a happy retirement. Please join us to say Good-bye to .
See you on
Yours sincerely
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 20xx International Conference on Parallel Data Processing to
be held in Bellaire, Michigan, from October 25 to October 28, 20xx.
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.
Sincerely yours,
Peter White