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英语学习整理

写作Tips

如何引出热点话题

• The past few years have seen / witnessed the topic of … rush into the forefront of…
• Sth. is a hot-button topic that has sparked conversations on…
• gengrate animated(lively) discussions on…
• spark a heated discussion / controversy
• be on everyone’s lips
• thanks to a spurt of progress in technology
• medical disputes / conflicts
• No.1 killer / Top killer

表示怀疑

• The van is out of gas.
• No way.
• I find that hard to believe.
• Get out.
• Get outta here.
• Who told you that?
• Where did you read / hear that?
• Really?
• You gotta be kidding me.
• I don’t believe you.

表示相同或相似

• Not the least of which
• Replica
• The resemblance of / between A and B is remarkable
• bear a remarkable / striking / close / strong / passing resemblance to…
• parallel experiments / examples / cases / trends
• reveal many close parallels
• Similarly, she can instantly identify her baby’s cry.
• see eye to eye on Sth.
• share identical opinions on

表忧虑

• How are you?
• How do you feel?
• How are you feeling?
• Is everything OK?
• What’s wrong?
• Are you all right?
• Don’t worry.
• You will be fine.
• It will be fine.
• What are you worrying for.
• There is no need to worry about.
• There’s nothing to worry about.
• It’ll turn out all right.
• It isn’t as bad as all that.
• Whatever you may have heard
• I won’t judge you
• Strategies:
  • Express a desire to help
    • I really want to help you get through this.
  • Express positive regard
  • Express concern, care, interest
  • Express availability
  • Express alliance, togetherness and solidarity
  • Express acknowledgment, comprehension, understanding, sympathy, sorrow, condolence
  • Say that the other person’s feelings are reasonable, normal, appropriate
  • Acknowledge the other person’s plight
  • Absolve the person of blame or guilt
  • Reassure the person that it’s okay to express any feelings, none are of-limit / bad
  • Encourage the expression of feelings
  • Ask open-ended questions about feelings
  • Reflect and restate the thoughts and feelings that you hear

表达增加/减少

• 增加
  • Skyrocket
  • Mushroom
  • Multiply
  • Soar
  • Ramp up / Mount up
• 减少
  • Plummet
  • Exert a slight / significant / substantial / drastic reduction in Sth.
  • Undergo / suffer a dramatic decline in Sth.
  • Abate
  • Slide

表达愤怒

• upset at Sth. / Someone
• angry with someone
• mad about Sth.
• Very angry:
  • ticked off
  • mad as hell
  • madder than hell
  • seeing red
  • have a fit / convulsion
  • throw a tantrum
  • go ballistic on
  • blow up
  • in a blind range
  • Sth. is an outrage

• 狂怒
  - furious
  - livid
  - incensed
  - enraged

• Diplomatic:
  • displeased
  • disappointed
  • not very / too happy / pleased / thrilled
  • somewhat(a bit) angry
  • get up on the wrong side of the bed

Advanced words

• good
  • decent
  • beneficial
• bad
  • harmful
  • detrimental
• big
  • immerse
  • enormous
• hard
  • difficult
• put off
  • postpone
• look into
  • investigate
• cut down
  • reduce
• set up
  • establish
  • found
• bring about
  • cause
  • produce

    Be specific 并且少用否定

表达因果

• Sth. serves / acts as catalyst / enzyme for Sth.
• invite i.e.That suggestion would invite eye-rolling.
• the genesis of … lurks in
• Sth. is induced by Sth
• Sth. induce Sth.
• be responsible for
• trigger ogg
• give rise to
• the reason for … are manifold and varied, but the one that dominate is

普遍现象

• become a commonplace
• become the rule (rather than the exception)
• prevalence / prevailing
• be here to stay
• pervasive