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【雅思写作】烤鸭必看:最常用错的雅思写作五组词

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小编提醒考生们:在谈及价位时我们应该用高低而非大小贵贱来表达,即high/low price 而非big/small price或者expensive/cheap price; great value而不是big value; their living condition ispoor而非bad等等。其实,小作文中比较集中的错误在“比较与对比”搞不清楚,所以出现 ‘compare’与 ‘contrast’的使用错误,这里我们详细说一下。


IP属地:上海来自Android客户端1楼2015-07-09 18:58回复
    1. compare与contrast的误用
    我们先从两者的定义入手来看两者的区别。 Compare的定义为:to examine people or things to see how theyare similar or different. Contrast的定义为:to compare two or more things to show thedifference between them. 由定义不难看出前者侧重于找到两个或多个事物的异同,而后者则侧重于它们的不同。


    IP属地:上海来自Android客户端3楼2015-07-09 19:03
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      看个例句:
      It is interesting to compare their situations to ours./It is interesting tocontrast their situations to ours.
      前一句翻译为:对比一下我们的情况与他们的情况会很有趣。
      后一句的翻译为:我们的情况与他们的情况有很大的不同,这很有趣。


      IP属地:上海来自Android客户端4楼2015-07-09 19:04
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        介词使用错误
         1、普通介词的误用
         一般表现为固定搭配错误,如常把 provide sb with sth用成provide sb sth; be satisfied with用成besatisfiedfor等等,虽然这样的错误看似无伤大雅,但在考官眼里就是影响顺畅阅读的,当然会影响最终成绩。解决的办法简单而古老:把常见的固定搭配牢记于心,问题自然就解决了。
         2、 “to”作为介词的误用
         “to”最常见的用法是以动词不定式符号的形式出现的,所以同学们也已经习惯了 “to do”的固定搭配。对于一些如walk to me, to theleft等介词to表方向等常见用法一般也不会出现错误。但是对于与动词搭配的介词to就会经常犯错:
         如:
         More and more students have taken to depend on their parents to makedecision for them.
         这里的 ‘take to’ means ‘to begin to do sth as a habit’ 其中‘to’为介词,所以后面只能接名词或相当于名词的词,如动名词。所以黑体处应改为“depending on”。“taketo”的另一个常用用法也需要牢记:
         He hasn’t taken to his new school.
         (这里‘take to’ means ‘to start liking sbor sth’)
         Prefer A to B中的 “to”也是介词,会有 prefer doing sth to doing sth/ prefer sth tosth else, 这里前程百利雅思考试提醒您,“prefer to do sth rather than dosth”中的“to”可是真正的不定式符号。
         类似的常用用法请同学们牢记:
         Be used to doing
         Be accustomed to doing
         See to doing
         Adapt to doing
         Adjust to doing
         prefer doing sth. to doing sth.
         等等,请注意平时仔细积累。


        IP属地:上海来自Android客户端6楼2015-07-10 20:03
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          assume及claim使用不够准确
           我们知道, think, assume,claim是议论文中常用引出观点的动词。在实际作文中,同学们往往认为几个词的意思是一样的,完全可以代换,所以拿过来就用。甚至还有同学把consider也拿过来与之混用。我们首先还是从定义来看这几个词的不同:
           Think: to have opinion or belief about sth.
           翻译为“认为”,通常接宾语从句来表达比较确定的观点。
           Assume: to think or accept that sth is true but without having proof ofit.
           翻译为“假设、假定”,是否有事实依据是不确定的。
           Claim: to say sth is true although it has not been proved and other peoplemay not believe it.
           翻译为“声称”,用这个词往往意味着不赞同紧跟其后的观点,所以很少用作 ‘I claim that…
            Scientist are claiming a breakthrough in the fight against cancer, but infact, …。
           所以 ‘It is claimed that’ 通常翻译为“有报道称。。。”。和‘it is reported that’的区别在于后者翻译为“据报道”,往往代表着作者赞同报告的内容,
           Consider: to think about sth carefully, especially in order to make adecision
           翻译为“考虑”,一般不用作引出观点,看个例子:
           We are considering buying a new car.
           所以,小编提醒您,千万不要在雅思大作文的第一段
           (观点表达段)就因为用词把握不准而导致对整篇文章的低分印象。


          IP属地:上海来自Android客户端7楼2015-07-10 20:03
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            表“建议”的词汇后面忘记用虚拟从句
            这是摘自学生雅思作文中的一个病句:
             I suggest he continues his study instead of working after graduation fromhigh school.
             因为 ‘suggest’翻译为“建议”,所以后面的从句应该用虚拟语气,黑体部分应该改为 “
              (should) continue”
            所以小编提醒您,一定要牢记以下常见表“建议”的词汇,而且要记住这些词接从句时要用虚拟语气:
            Recommend, suggest, advise


            IP属地:上海来自Android客户端8楼2015-07-10 20:03
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              such as与for example的混用
                我们知道,在表示举例子的时候,such as 与like是完全等同的,如:Wild flowers such as/like orchids andprimroses are becoming rare.
               但是同学们对于Such as、for example 的把握还是不够准确。我们都知道,后者接句子前者接词语表示举例子。于是就有了下面的写法:
               There is a similar word in many languages, such as in French andItalian.
               这里的such as改为 for example为好,因为“in French and Italian”其实是“there is a similarword in French and Italian”的简化,所以要用 for example来引出例证。再来看几个类似的例子:
               It is possible to combine computer science with other subjects, for examplephysics.


              IP属地:上海来自Android客户端9楼2015-07-10 20:04
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