两点建议使托福写作变得简洁

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编辑点评: 托福写作的评分标准中,“简洁明了”是非常重要的一项。许多同学的文章不仅冗长,表达也不清,这样肯定没法取得好分数。本文就为大家介绍一些能使自己的文章简洁起来的写作方法,希望对同学们有所帮助。

简洁是托福写作技巧中的最重要的一项,但是很多考生都因为要追求字数或是复杂句式的原因而使自己的托福写作变得不简洁,从而影响成绩。现在天道小编就为大家总结如何让自己的托福写作变得简洁。

建议一: 避免空洞的单词和词组

1. 在托福写作中,一些空洞的单词或词组根本不能为句子带来任何相关的或重要的信息,完全可以被删掉。比如下面的句子:

When all things are considered, young adults of today live more satisfying lives than those of their parents, in my opinion.

这句话当中的“when all things are considered”和“in my opinion“都显得多余。完全可以去掉。改为:

Young adults of today live more satisfying lives than their parents.

2. 有些空洞和繁琐的表达方式可以进行替换,例如:

Due to the fact that our grandparents were under an obligation to help their parents, they did not have the options that young people have at this point in time.

“due to the fact that”就是一个很典型的繁琐的表达方式的例子,可以替换,简化为下面的表达方式:

Because our grandparents were obligated to help their parents, they did not have the options that young people have now.

建议二: 避免重复

1. 在托福写作中,尽量避免重复使用同样的词汇。或者有的时候虽然词汇没有重复,但意思却有重复。这时候可以做一些简化的工作。例如下面这个例子::

The farm my grandfather grew up on was large in size.

large 对一个farm来说就是size方面的large,所以in size可以去掉,改为:

The farm my grandfather grew up on was large.

更简洁的表达方式为:

My grandfather grew up on a large farm.

2. 有时一个词组可以用一个更简单的单词来替换,例如:

My grandfather has said over and over again that he had to work on his parents' farm.

这里的over and over again就可以改为repeatedly,显得更为简洁:

My grandfather has said repeatedly that he had to work on his parents' farm.

大家在自己的托福写作中也是一样,在不能确定自己的复杂的长句没有问题的时候还是以简洁和简单为基本准则,这样做的好处是你可以确定自己不会错。

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