高中英语新高考-英语作文:推敲词汇之make的替换词(附:实战作文批改实录)
我在前面讲过抽象名词的使用,例如:
If we are exposed to much TV, we will lose imagination.
我们可以把if的从句换成:
Rich exposure to TV
但是一个问题是:谓语怎么处理?
同学们普遍这样来的:
Rich exposure to TV will make us lose imagination.
当然句子是对的,但是,英语中老使用make,会让人感到词穷。实际上这样表达:
Rich exposure to TV will cost us imagination.
Cost本身就可以表示“使某人失去”。比较以下例子:
The result made me disappointed.
The result disappointed me.
The Internet makes me learn English more conveniently.
The Internet facilitate my English study.
The interference makes the country involved in a war.
The interference involves the country in a war.
但是这样的词到此有哪些?我把牛津词典从头翻到尾,挑出130个这样的词汇解决大家的难题。这里节选最常用的31个:
必要性:necessitate
激发,鼓励:inspire, encourage
增加,减少:minimize, multiply, expose, rid
联系:associate, involve, alienate
使得: allow, leave, keep, set
感情色彩:convince, impress, satisfy, excite, amaze
有助于:help, facilitate, smooth, sharpen
能力:enable, equip, entitle
消极:anger, frustrate, burden, cost, blind, ruin
练习:
改写句子,请替换其中的make:
1. The newspapers make me know what take place in the world.
2. Computers make us solve difficult math problems in a short time.
3. The news made us feel afraid.
答案:
1. The newspapers keep me informed of what take place in the world.
2. Computers enable us to solve difficult math problems in a short time.
3. The news filled us with fear.
实战作文批改
Innovation
Nowadays, innovation has been gaining increasingly popularity, which can lay a solid foundation for a country’s development. Thegravity(gravity: extreme importance and a cause for worry严重性,这是这个词的英文解释,创新这件事并没有for worry,所以这个词使用的不恰当,直接改为importance即可。) of innovation can never be overemphasized. As is known to all, it can serve as a constant source for productivity and technology, thus enhancing a country’s international competitiveness. And(改为转折连词however更好) without innovation, how can we enjoy a comfortable modern life?
总结:
逻辑:该作者本段谈创新的重要性,从科技和生产率两方面讲,且最后从反面论证,非常到位!
语言:本段用到了不少短语,例如cannot be overemphasized, a constant source for,enhancing a country’s international competitiveness,非常棒!
As middle school students, developing innovative skills should undoubtedly be put at the top of the agenda(与前文状语逻辑注意不一致,应为:we should develop innovative skills and put them at the top of the agenda undoubtedly.). Considering that Chinese students nowadays are bent o