做为一个科研工作者或者临床医生，您一定希望自己的工作能得到大众的认可或者听到不同的声音。只有期刊这个平台，可以帮助您完成这个理想。或许您已经不是一名写作新手，您也曾在国内多家期刊上发表过文章，如果您想让更多人听到自己的声音，这个时候你就应该选择英文学术期刊。在投国际英文期刊时，除了自己写出高水平的论文外，如何与编辑建立良好的沟通，对于文章的发表起着不可或缺的作用。

    在本篇文章中，我们将尽可能地向您展示在修稿过程中可能会涉及的问题，以及如何用英文给杂志社回复，供您在今后参考。

    在回复外审专家对于文章的主要批评意见时可以说：

    1. In reply to the referee’s main criticism of paper, it is possible to say that –

    您的回复：外审专家对于表1中xxx所提出的问题现已改正。而后面的一些小改动则不会影响文章对结果的解释。One minor point raised by the referee concerns of the extra composition of the reaction mixture in Figure 1 has now been corrected. Further minor changes had been made on page 3, paragraph 1 (line 3-8) and 2 (line 6-11). These do not affect our interpretation of the result.

    2. 我非常仔细地阅读了外审专家的意见，而且我认为文章仅仅因为缺少xxx而被拒绝刊登的。我承认本应在文中包含xxx。然后这仅是出于对文章简洁的考量，没有提供相关数据，而非疏忽。I have read the referee’s comments very carefully and conclude that the paper has been rejected on the sole grounds that it lacked toxicity data. I admit that I did not include a toxicity table in my article although perhaps I should have done. This was for the sake of brevity rather than an error or omission.

    3. 谢谢您对于我文章“XXX”的回复以及外审专家的意见。我们已经仔细研究了他们的意见，并做了相应的改正，希望获得他们的认可。Thank you for your letter of – and for the referee’s comments concerning our manuscript entitled “”. We have studied their comments carefully and have made correction which we hope meet with their approval.

    4. 我随信附上修过的文章，其中增添了在外审专家建议下新做的实验报告，可进一步证实原有结论。I enclosed a revised manuscript which includes a report of additional experiments done at the referee’s suggestion. You will see that our original findings are confirmed.

    5. 我们附上依照审稿专家的意见修改的原稿，其中修改部分用红色划线标注。We are sending the revised manuscript according to the comments of the reviewers. Revised portion are underlined in red.

    6. 外审专家的意见对我们很有帮助，我们已经按照这些意见对原稿做了修改。We found the referee’s comments most helpful and have revised the manuscript

    7. 很高兴得知审稿专家对文章的好评We are pleased to note the favorable comments of reviewers in their opening sentence.

    8. 感谢你的来信。我很高兴稿件经修改后可在XXX杂志发表。Thank you for your letter. I am very pleased to learn that our manuscript is acceptable for publication in Cancer Research with minor revision.

    9. 为此，我们进行了一系列进一步的实验，结果见表5的总结。由此我们得出结论内在的因素起不到什么作用。We have therefore completed a further series of experiments, the result of which are summarized in Table 5. From this we conclude that intrinsic factor does not account.

    10. 我们删除了对文章不重要的段落。We deleted the relevant passage since they are not essential to the contents of the paper.

    11. 我觉得外审专家对于xxx的评论有些误解。I feel that the reviewer’s comments concerning Figures 1 and 2 result from a misinterpretation of the data.

    12. 如果在我们的系统中有非蛋白抑制剂，我们就会将其设为控制组。We would have include a non-protein inhibitor in our system, as a control, if one had been available.

    13. 我们希望保留表4，在结果部分新加入的一段话帮助解释了其存在的意义。We prefer to retain the use of Table 4 for reasons that it should be clear from the new paragraph inserted at the end of the Results section.

    14. 尽量审稿专家并不认为有必要测量细胞的温度，我们却不这样认为。Although reviewer does not consider it is important to measure the temperature of the cells, we consider it essential.

    15. 页眉标题已改为“”The running title has been changed to “”.

    16. 在材料与方法段中已包括了xxx的细节。The Materials and Methods section now includes details for measuring uptake of isotope and assaying hexokinase.

    17. 原稿中对于xxx的描述不正确，现已纠正。很感谢外审专家的指正。The concentration of HAT media (page12 paragraph 2) was incorrectly stated in the original manuscript. This has been rectified. The authors are grateful to the referees for pointing out their error.

    18. 依照两位外审专家的建议，现增添了对于XXX的讨论。As suggested by both referees, a discussion of the possibility of laser action on chromosome has been included (page16, paragraph 2).

    19. 较原来的图片，我们在新的一组图片中增加了对比例尺的定义。We included a new set of photographs with better definition than those originally submitted and to which a scale has been added.

     20. 根据外审专家的意见，我们已重新绘制了图3和4。Following the suggestion of the referees, we have redraw Figure 3 and 4.

     21. 我在文章的正文和参考文献中增加了对投稿后发表的另外两篇文章的引用。这两篇文章是：Two further papers, published since our original submission, have been added to the text and Reference section. These are:

    22. 很感谢外审专家的宝贵意见，希望修改后的文章更公平的、完整地记录了我们的研究工作。我们相信修订后的稿件可以达到出版要求。We should like to thank the referees for their helpful comments and hope that we have now produced a more balance and better account of our work. We trust that the revised manuscript is acceptable for publication.

    23. 我非常感谢您和外审专家对于文章修改方面给予的帮助。希望修后稿件可以在贵刊发表。I greatly appreciate both your help and that of the referees concerning improvement to this paper. I hope that the revised manuscript is now suitable for publication.

    24. 很感谢您和外审专家对于稿件修改方面的建议。I should like to express my appreciation to you and the referees for suggesting how to improve our paper.

    25.很抱歉由于额外新做实验而导致返修稿件时间上的延误。I apologize for the delay in revising the manuscript. This was due to our doing an additional experiment, as suggested by referees.