方舟子5月7日的微博：贝志诚回忆说：“找到一个美国朋友翻译成地道的英语，我拿着它去学校和蔡全清一起去系里的机房在四月十日周一晚上发出了这封求救邮件”。但是看信的原文，绝对不可能是美国人写的地道英语，而是中国人写的中式英语。贝志诚为什么要撒谎？（英文求助信附后）。

通过下面的分析可以知道，贝志成这封信不是地道的英文，而是很蹩脚的中式英文，肯定没有找过“美国朋友”，但是有可能求助于在美国学习的中国留学生。一般人可能看不出来这封信的英语问题，我选择几点给大家说明一下。

1、“a young, 21-year old student ”应该为a young, 21-year-old student，而且young多余。信函的第二句就出问题，不可能被美国人改过。

2、“The illness is very rare”。这是典型的中文表达，中文形容词作谓语常加“很”，所以作者就用了very，而在英语中这个very是不需要的。

3、“Though they have tried, doctors at the best hospitals”。Doctors之前应该有定冠词the，因为中文没有定冠词，所以中式英文经常忘记用它。此外，介词at应为in，中国学生经常弄错这两个介词。

4、“The young woman -- her name is Zhu Ling -- is a student in the chemistry department.”中文叫“化学系”，the chemistry department是中式表达，英语的习惯用法则为the department of chemistry。此外，如此介绍患者的名字也是中文习惯，欧美人会觉得奇怪。

5、“Three days later, her hair began to fall out and within two days she was completely bald. ”在汉语中，这些时间词“三天之后”、“两天之内”都是在句子或者谓语动词之前，然而英语则是把它们置于句子之后，特别是within two days应该放在bald之后。“脱发”的英语是lose hair，而不是fall out。

6、“She entered the hospital, but the doctors could not find the season for her illness.”这里的season应为reason，这么明显的词汇错误都没有改正，由此可以推断很可能此函没有经过他人检查。Entered the hospital也是典型的汉语表达，如果自己去，可以说she went to the hospital；如果被送去，可以说she was taken to the hospital。

无需多举例了，上面这些错误和中式英语表达足可以支持方舟子的判断：贝志成这封信根本不可能经过“美国朋友”改正，也不是“地道”的英语。可以证明，贝志成在这封信的写作过程上撒了谎。那么，他为什么这样做呢？

附：贝志成1995年4月10日向国际发出的求助函

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