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外刊中有哪些地道实用的写作表达/句型?
「问题」还可以怎么说?
如何介绍正反双方的观点?
如何写好「三点论」?
一、「问题」还可以怎么说
There are three potential explanations for the puzzle: overly generous benefits; fearful workers; and a reallocation of labour between industries.对于这一问题,有三种可能的解释:福利过多、工人担忧、行业间劳动力重新分配。
The puzzle is still unresolved: We don’t know when and why economic growth does increase happiness and when it doesn’t.这个问题仍然没有解决:我们不知道什么时候、以及为什么,经济增长会增加幸福感,或者不会。
The new government's first challenge is the economy.新政府面临的第一个难题是经济问题。
Are Germany's woes home-made or imported? 德国的问题是内部因素造成的还是外部因素造成的?
Family dynamics cause more headaches than nationalism.比起民族主义,家庭结构变化引发了更多的问题。
Many retailers flogging non-essential goods are stuck with useless inventory—with more piling up as pre-pandemic orders stream in from factories in faraway emerging markets. But it is a particular headache for fashion firms.许多兜售非必需品的零售商被闲置的库存所困——流行病爆发前,订单从遥远新兴市场的工厂源源不断地涌来,导致库存也在不断增加。但对时装公司来说 这尤其令人头疼。
二、如何介绍正反双方的观点?
Some scholars rejected the paradox and pointed to countries in which economic growth was accompanied by growing happiness. 有学者反驳了这一悖论,并指出一些国家的经济增长伴随着幸福感的提高。
Other scholars, Easterlin included, came up with further examples of the paradox — countries in which economic growth was accompanied with flat or downward-looking trends for happiness. 其他学者(包括伊斯特林在内)为这一悖论举出了更多例子——在一些国家,经济在增长,但幸福指数不变,甚至下降。
The puzzle is still unresolved: We don’t know when and why economic growth does increase happiness and when it doesn’t.这个问题仍然没有解决:我们不知道什么时候、以及为什么,经济增长会增加幸福感,或者不会。
三、如何写好「三点论」?
①There are three potential explanations for the puzzle: overly generous benefits; fearful workers; and a reallocation of labour between industries.对于这一问题,有三种可能的解释:福利过多、工人担忧、行业间劳动力重新分配。
②Start with America's huge fiscal handouts...先从美国巨额的财政援助说起……
③That suggests the second factor, fear, might be important in explaining America's shortage of staff....这表明第二个因素——恐惧——可能是解释美国员工短缺的重要原因……
④The final reason for worker shortages relates to the extraordinary reallocation of resources under way in the world's largest economy.劳动力短缺的最后一个原因与全球最大经济体中发生的的资源异常重新配置有关。
表示「第一点、第二点、第三点」时,我们用的是 first, second, third,很像流水账,枯燥无味,而文中用的是不同类别的词:start with, second, final,更加灵活;
表示「原因」,文中没有反复使用同一个词,而是分别用了 factor, reason 进行替换,灵活多变;
句子结构丰富,表示「第一点是、第二点是、第三点是」时,我们往往使用 is..., is... is...;而文章用的是 start with, might be, relate to,表达形式非常丰富。