速记是一种快速记录语言、文字、思维的科学书写方法。掌握了速记技巧,其书写速度可以提高四、五倍。因此,有人把速记喻为:“音落书成,追及思维”的飞笔,也有人称赞它是“与时并进、与音齐飞”的现代化书写利器。速记在国外是秘书的同义语。不会速记的人就不能从事秘书工作。美国《职称词典》解释的第二条就要求秘书“能用速记记录口述”(马天民:《美国的秘书与秘书工作》)速记的产生可追溯到三千年前的古埃及,但它在我国应用和推广,则是近九十年的事。1896年前,人们要快速书 Shorthand is a quick way to record the language, writing, thinking of scientific writing. Mastered the shorthand skills, the writing speed can be increased four or five times. Therefore, some people use the shorthand as “a flying pen for sounding books, chasing after thinking,” and some also praise it as a modern writing instrument of “keeping pace with the times and sounding together.” Shorthand foreign secretary is synonymous. Those who can not shorthand can not work as secretaries. The second article in the U.S. Dictionary of Professional Titles, which requires the secretary to “record oral shorthand” (Ma Tianmin: “Clerks and Secretary Work in the United States”) shorthand dates back to ancient Egypt dating back three thousand years, but its application in our country and Promotion, it is nearly 90 years of business. Before 1896, people wanted a quick book