本人原来再给一个同学改作文,发现她经常写一些让我感觉哭笑不得的句子。 例如: At the first glance, the argument seems sound, but with a further look, I find it problematic。
前半句是忠实引用,后半句可能有点走样了。总之,有一种很弱的感觉。就算4级作文这样写也太菜了吧,何况是GRE AW呢。并且,改作文这么长时间了,看到很多普遍的错误,一篇一篇重复地指出相同的问题也太麻烦了。所以我想,有必要说一说一些关于写句子的事情。
当然,这个骨架不存在调整主谓宾的问题(as so far),直接构建就行了。然后,这个education有没有什么限定?群体?合作需不需要具体的形容或者分类?这个过程要不要指明时间,空间等等因素?注意这不是思维的发散,而是把你构思好的,相关的一串东西集中起来(因为等你写的时候构思早就构完了)。这样写出来就是As…, education exerts its efforts only through…, rendering…, which… (随便写的一个例子,并不是很严禁)。又例如下边这个成品:
For example, while the whole class is learning basic arithmetic such as twelve plus thirteen is twenty-five, a math whiz, exercising multiplication on 4-digit numbers without awareness of what’s going on in the classroom, may always draw the teacher’s attention。(可能有语法错误啊,呵呵)Thought Einstein has proposed the great theory of relativism, which has been proven true for light particles by an experiment that successfully examined variance in life of a radioactive element, it is still impossible for most students to directly experience travels of such high speed。