英语高级表达方式

英语高级表达方式

【高级表达方式——抽象名词的使用】

1. ABSENCE: (with/there is) the absence of attempt/ work

A．Many medical experts are now agreed that with the general absence

of roughage，modem citizens are literally---via heart attacks and cancer--eating and drinking themselves into the grave．

许多医学专家现在一致认为，由于食物中总体缺少粗粮，现代公民们就是这样一日三餐，不知不觉地患上了心脏病和癌症。最终送命，这样说并非言过其实。

B．There seems to have been an absence of attempt at conciliation between rival sects．

似乎没有进行任何尝试去调解对立派之间的矛盾。

C．For large numbers of people, the absence of work is harmful to their health．

对大多数人来说，没有工作对他们的身体反而有害。

2. ACCEPTANCE: have/find/obtain/gain/win (general/immediate/wide) acceptance for/among/of

A．Academic dishonesty has had relatively strong peer support and acceptance among some students，partly because we did not make a serious

effort to explain why such behavior is contemptible．

学习上的作弊得到同伴相对有力的支持，也被一些学生所接受。部分原因是我们没有真正努力去解释为什么这种行为是可耻的。

B．If that can be done，the high way will serve the purposes users want．

Then it will gain broad acceptance and become a reality．

如果做到这一点的话，高架就会达到使用者所希望的目的。这样就会得到广泛的支持而成为现实。

3. ACCESS: gain/get/have/attain/give (ready/easy) access to

A．Advances in technology have smoothed access to information, rendering superfluous whole layers of management.

技术的发展使我们能较容易获取信息，也使整个管理层变得有些多余。

B．While it is true that U．S．sources may have better access to the information，they might also have more reason to conceal or alter that information．

美国新闻机构获取情报或许较为方便，但它们也可能有较多的理由去隐瞒或篡改情报。

4. ACQUISITION: acquisition of knowledge/ a language/information

A. Newspaper reading，rather than being simply the acquisition of new

information，is a kind of passive participation in the life of the

national community.

读报不仅仅是获得新的信息，而是一种被动地参与国家生活的活动。

B．But in the past trying to accelerate children's

acquisition of academic skills in their early age was seen as evidence of bad parenting．

但在过去，若家长们在孩子还很小时就加快对他们的文化知识的学习，这种做法被认为是不好的教育法。

5. AGREEMENT: there is general agreement that

A. There is total agreement that the activity of humans is at least partly responsible for the problem.

有一点大家的意见是一致的：人类的活动对这个问题至少应当负部分责任。

B．To come to agreement on control and reduction of weapons between the superpowers is difficult.

超级大国之间要在控制和削减武器方面达成一致意见是很困难的。

6. ANALYSIS: make a careful/close analysis of; attempt/defy/resist analysis

A．Yet close analysis of such people often reveals

the existence of what

might be called “stability zones” in their lives．仔细分析这些人，往往会发现，在他们生活中也存在可能称为的“稳定区域”。

B．It requires a very unusual mind，Whitehead said，to undertake the analysis of a fact．

怀特黑德说过，需要一种极不寻常的头脑去分析一个事件。

7．ANTICIPATION：in anticipation of a rise／fall／success

A．All experience a good deal of anticipation，but the anticipation pales

next to the excitement of first communicating verbally．

所有这一切都经历了许多的盼望，但这种盼望比起第一次语言交流的兴奋要逊色多了。B．The financial markets had raised interest rates in anticipation of a squeeze.

金融市场因预计到银根紧缩而提高了利率。C．in anticipation of an early reply期待早复