托福写作解读考试中的常见错误

托福写作解读考试中的常见错误

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托福写作解读考试中的常见错误

1.用词不当

学生们写的作文里或多或少都会有一些用词不当的问题，但是要注意的是一些最最基本的错误是不能犯的。

In the show, if participators answer twenty problems that the host mentioned correctly, they will get five hundreds thousand U.S. dollars as a

prize.

——problems应改为questions

2.拼写错误

这里的拼写错误不是指在考试时候的误打，而是本身对词汇拼写记忆的错误。

In conclusion, issue of whether parents are the best teachers is a complex

one, requiring subjective judgement, consequently, there are no easy or certain

answers.

——judgement应改为judgment

3.乱用大词

First of all, children can earn money from their jobs, although there isn’t

too much, but they will keep their salary gingerliness.

这里的gingerliness根本是不知所云。该句子还有以下问题：

1)该作文题目是讲学生是否应该做兼职，因此children的出现就显得很莫名其妙;

2)although和but是不能连用的;

3)指代不明，they不知道是指代前面的什么;

4.表达中式

The second argument-it might have been noticed by others-is that in some

occasion, it is quite difficult to compare parents to teachers because parents

are a kind of people, teachers are a kind of vocation.

句子中划线部分的表达过于中式化。

托福写作词语运用的原则

一。“言简朴实原则”

“言简朴实原则”意思是行文主张不写啰嗦或绚丽的字眼(flowery or wordy)，句子应该越短越好，一句能用两个字，绝不多加一个。例如：

At this point in time，we should pull together for our goal.

(现在我们应该为我们的目标团结一致)这句话中“At this point in time”

表示“现在”，我们完全可以用now来代替。

Despite the fact that my English is not very good，I am not discouraged。(虽然我的英语不好，但我不灰心。) 这句话中despite the fact tha t= although =

though，因此我们完全可以改成Although my English is not very good，I am not discouraged。

In the majority of cases，he likes to ride bike to the office.

(他通常喜欢骑单车到办公室)。很简单的一句话，完全可以写成He usually likes to ride bike to the office。

平时我们所说的用词多样化和地道并不是体现在这些时间副词或者是完全可以简化的啰嗦句型上，而是指实用性极强的词如动词和形容词，比如：

Original：Solving trivial problems in the dorm will add your social experience and help you to understand other people’s feelings and learn to be

kind。

Revised：Solving trivial problems in the dorm will enrich your social

experience and help you to understand other people’s feelings and learn to be

considerate。

add，kind表达的含义都比较宽泛。add可以指数量上的增加，

也可以指程度的加强，对于“丰富经验、增加知识”这个意思，用enrich 会使表达更准确。kind从字面意义上讲是“好的、善良的”，用kind 来形容人无法具体地表现出一个人的性格特征到底怎样，原句中是想表达“考虑周到、体贴入微”的特点，要准确表达这个含义应选择considerate。

另外，我们常见的一些累赘用词表现在句意的理解上，比如：He has had many years of (actual) experience in business. (他有多年经商的经验)

actual是多余的，因为experience已经有actual的意味了。

We assembled (together) all the parts for our radio.

(我们装好收音机的零件)assemble本身就有together的意思，因此together是多余的。

此外还有，in reference to=about; draw to close=end; at an early date=soon等。

二。“平等相处原则”

“平等相处原则”的意思是行文不出现明显的带歧视或偏见的字眼，包括男女性别，也要避免区别，以示“平等”。例如：Many businessmen(businesswomen) feel their jobs are very stressful.

(许多商人觉得工作压力很大)这句话写businessmen或是businesswomen都是不妥当的，可以改为business people或business executives或business managers就可以包括男女了。