单词回顾 | 他们都是如何用“justify”和“amount”造句的？

5月25日的单词是“justify”，说某种做法合理时可以使用。它的名词形式“justification”和形容词形式“justifiable”也很常用，尤其可以用在议论文写作中。

下面是几个句子点评：

1. Under no circumstances, violence can be justified.

点评：如果用“under no circumstances”开头，句子要用倒装形式：

Under no circumstances can violence be justified.

2. The evil of the GWF cannot be justified in the name of national security and Internet sovereign.

点评：“be justified in the name of”这个搭配用得很好。根据有的用法指南，“internet”做形容词时“i”不需要大写。

3. No one can deny the importance of environmental protection. Sadly in China, however, environmental contamination is often justified by economic growth. 

点评：“justified”后面可以用“in the name of economic growth”或“on economical grounds”。

4. The ends don't justify the means.

点评：英文中经常出现的句子，意思是“不能为达到目的而不择手段”。应该是作者平时学习时积累的句子。

5月26日的单词是“amount to”，相当于“be tantamount to”，意思就是“相当于”。

下面是几个句子点评：

1. Forgetting history amounts to betrayal.

点评：很棒的句子。注意体会这个句子的简洁性和表达效果。

2. People who expoilt their connection's name to land a job through the back door amount to admit their weaker competence indirectly.

点评：作者的想法很好，但有几处小错误。我会这么改：

People who expoilt their connections to land a job through the back door amounts to indirectly admitting their weaker competence.

3. What he has done amounts to breaking the promise he made.

点评：很好的句子，可以更具体一些。

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题图：Martin Niemöller 引言。 

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