感谢是贯穿人生的重大话题。
当你意气风发，你可能想先感谢你自己，感谢多年的奋斗。
其次，你可能想到你的父母，感谢他们给了你生命，并无私地支持你的每一个决定。
另外，你可能还想感谢你的敌人，他们的顽强抵抗磨炼了你的意志，让你在心里默默下定决心，告诉自己：Don’t ever let somebody tell me: you can’t do something.
最后，你可能还想感谢这个时代，是这个伟大时代成就你的机遇。
当你心灰意冷的时候，你还得感谢，感谢你还没有得到你想要的一切，这给你继续活下去的理由，与活下去的价值。
感谢真是无处不在啊。那么怎么用英语来表示感谢呢？
先看看好莱坞的演员怎么来表示感谢的：
I’m very grateful to receive this award for “best actress”. I can’t begin to tell you how much I appreciate this great honor.
There are many people I’d like to thank.
First of all, I want to thank my parentsfor bringing me into this world. I also want to express my gratitude to all of my teachers over the years, but especially to my acting teacher, Jim Jones, who taught me everything I know. I also want to thank my husband, for his understanding and kindness.
Andfinally, I want to express my appreciation to all of my friends for their support, especially to Martin Miller, for being there when I needed him.
This award means a great deal to me. Words can’t express how honored I feel at this moment. I will remember this night for the rest of my life! Thank you very much.
在这段话中，使用了不同的表示感谢的用语，主要有：
I’m very grateful to …
I want to thank… for…
I want to express my gratitude/appreciation…. For…
My thanks also go to …
再看看基金经理雷达里奥在《债务危机》一书中如何表示感谢：
I cannot adequately thank the many people at Bridgewater who have shared,and continue to share, my mission to understand the markets and to test that understanding in the real world. I celebrate themeaningful work and meaningful relationships that we have had and that have led to the understandings and principles that have enriched us in the most profound ways.
The list of great partners includes Bob Prince, GregJensen and Dan Bernstein, who have worked with me over decades, my current investment research team (especially Steven Kryger, Gardner Davis, BillLongfield, Anser Kazi, Danny Newman, Michael Savarese, and Elena Gonzalez Malloy),members of my past research teams (especially Brian Gold, Claude Amadeo, BobElliott, Mark Dinner, Brandon Rowley, and Jason Rogers), and
many others who have worked with me on research over the years.
I’m also indebted to the many other leaders in Bridgewater research, including Jason Rotenberg, NoahYechiely, Larry Cofsky, Ramsen Betfarhad, Karen Karniol-Tambour, Kevin Brennan,Kerry Reilly, Jacob Kline, Avraam Sidiropoulos, Amit Srivastava, and our treasured former colleague Bruce Steinberg, who we tragically lost last year.
在这段话里值得记住的关于“感谢“的表达主要有：
I can’t adequately thank….
I am also indebted to ….
Indebted表示“欠债的”，亦有“因欠人情而深表感激的”意味。
最后，感谢你的阅读。I can’t be more thankful for your reading.
