方舟子5月7日的微博：貝志誠回憶說：“找到一個美國朋友翻譯成地道的英語，我拿着它去學校和蔡全清一起去系裡的機房在四月十日周一晚上發出了這封求救郵件”。但是看信的原文，絕對不可能是美國人寫的地道英語，而是中國人寫的中式英語。貝志誠為什麼要撒謊？（英文求助信附後）。

通過下面的分析可以知道，貝志成這封信不是地道的英文，而是很蹩腳的中式英文，肯定沒有找過“美國朋友”，但是有可能求助於在美國學習的中國留學生。一般人可能看不出來這封信的英語問題，我選擇幾點給大家說明一下。

1、“a young, 21-year old student ”應該為a young, 21-year-old student，而且young多餘。信函的第二句就出問題，不可能被美國人改過。

2、“The illness is very rare”。這是典型的中文表達，中文形容詞作謂語常加“很”，所以作者就用了very，而在英語中這個very是不需要的。

3、“Though they have tried, doctors at the best hospitals”。Doctors之前應該有定冠詞the，因為中文沒有定冠詞，所以中式英文經常忘記用它。此外，介詞at應為in，中國學生經常弄錯這兩個介詞。

4、“The young woman -- her name is Zhu Ling -- is a student in the chemistry department.”中文叫“化學系”，the chemistry department是中式表達，英語的習慣用法則為the department of chemistry。此外，如此介紹患者的名字也是中文習慣，歐美人會覺得奇怪。

5、“Three days later, her hair began to fall out and within two days she was completely bald. ”在漢語中，這些時間詞“三天之後”、“兩天之內”都是在句子或者謂語動詞之前，然而英語則是把它們置於句子之後，特別是within two days應該放在bald之後。“脫髮”的英語是lose hair，而不是fall out。

6、“She entered the hospital, but the doctors could not find the season for her illness.”這裡的season應為reason，這麼明顯的詞彙錯誤都沒有改正，由此可以推斷很可能此函沒有經過他人檢查。Entered the hospital也是典型的漢語表達，如果自己去，可以說she went to the hospital；如果被送去，可以說she was taken to the hospital。

無需多舉例了，上面這些錯誤和中式英語表達足可以支持方舟子的判斷：貝志成這封信根本不可能經過“美國朋友”改正，也不是“地道”的英語。可以證明，貝志成在這封信的寫作過程上撒了謊。那麼，他為什麼這樣做呢？

附：貝志成1995年4月10日向國際發出的求助函

The SOS E-mail Message from Peking University

Hi,

This is Peking University in China, a place of those dreams of freedom and democracy. However, a young, 21-year old student has become very sick and is dying. The illness is very rare. Though they have tried, doctors at the best hospitals in Beijing cannot cure her; many do not even know what illness it is. So now we are asking the world -- can somebody help us?

Here is a description of the illness:

The young woman -- her name is Zhu Ling -- is a student in the chemistry department. On DEC. 5, 1994, Zhu Ling felt sick in her stomach. Three days later, her hair began to fall out and within two days she was completely bald. She entered the hospital, but the doctors could not find the season for her illness. However, after she was in the hospital for a month, she began to feel better and her hair grew back. Zhu Ling went back to school in February, but in March her legs began to ache severely, and she felt dizzy. She entered XieHe(Harmony) Hospital - the most famous hospital in China. On March 15, her symptoms worsened. She began facial paralysis, central muscle of eye's paralysis, self-controlled respiration disappeared. So she was put on a respirator.

The doctors did many tests for many diseases including anti-> H2V, spinal cord puncture, NMR, immune system, chemical drug intoxication ANA,ENA,DSONA,ZG and Lyme, but all were negative, except for Lyme disease(ZGM(+)).

The doctors now think that it might be acute disseminated encephalomyelitis(ADEM) or lupus erythematosus(LE), but the data from the tests did not support this conclusion.

The doctors are now treating Zhu Ling with broad-spectrum antibiotic of cephalosporin, anti-virus drug, hormone, immun- oadjuvent, gamma globulin intravenous injection and have given her plasma exchange(PE) of 10,000 CCs. But Zhu Ling has not responded -- she reamers in a vegetative state, sustained by life support. encephalomyelitis(ADEM) or lupus erythematosus(LE), but the data from the tests did not support this conclusion. The doctors are now treating Zhu Ling with broad-spectrum antibiotic of cephalosporin, anti-virus drug, hormone, immun- oadjuvent, gamma globulin intravenous injection and have given her plasma exchange(PE) of 10,000 CCs. But Zhu Ling has not responded -- she reamers in a vegetative state, sustained by life support. If anyone has heard of patients with similar symptoms -- or have any ideas as to what this illness could be, please contact us. We are Zhu Ling's friends and we are disparate to help her. This is the first time that Chinese try to find help from Internet, please send back E-mail to us. We will send more crystal description of her illness to you. our email is: caiqq@mccux0.mech.pku.edu.cn Thank you very much Peking University April 10th, 1995