三、形容词+名词
形容词加名词的结构使用频率也比较高。形容词能够使表达的意思更具体更生动,名词能够使表达显得更加正式和学术。下面给大家列举几个例子。
例一:unpredictable and powerful experiences
无法预知且有影响力的经历
剑五4 It seems that the experiences we have in life are so unpredictable and so powerful that they can boost or over-ride other influences, and there seems to be plenty of research findings to confirm this.
例二:general knowledge 常识
剑五2 The reason for this trend may involve the recognition that a young adult who passes directly from school to university is rather restricted in terms of general knowledge and experience of the world.
例三:a broad view 目光远大
剑五2 By contrast, those who have spent some time earning a living or traveling to other places, have a broader view of life and better personal resources to draw on.
例四:a clear perspective 清楚的理解
剑四2 An ability to keep a clear perspectives in life is a more essential factor in achieving happiness.
例五:an academic environment 学习环境
剑四4 Young people may end up never returning to their studies or finding it difficult to readapt to an academic environment.
例六:loving personal relationship 相亲相爱的人际关系
剑四2 While some people link happiness to wealth and material success, others think it lies in emotions and loving personal relationships.
四、名词+介词
相比较动词加介词的结构,名词加介词考生的出错率更高。要想避免此类错误,雅思专家建议考生们必须积累各种常见搭配。下面给大家列举几个例子。
例一:consideration for somebody; understanding of something
考虑某人;理解某物
剑四4 Children grow up without consideration for others and without any understanding of where their standard of living comes from.
例二:a problem for somebody 某人的问题
剑四4 The government should fund this kind of parental support, because this is not longer a problem for individual families, but also for society as a whole.
例三:advantages to doing something 做某事的好处
剑四B While some people think this may be damaging to a child’s development, or to child’s relationship with his or her parents, in fact there are many advantages to having school experience at a young age.
例四:effects on something 对某事有影响
剑四B Such children find their first day at school at the age of six very frightening and this may have a negative effect on how they learn.
例五:a step in doing something 做某事的方法
剑四2 If there are different kinds of happiness for different individuals then the first step in achieving it would be to have a degree of self-knowledge.
例六:a sense of something 意识到
剑四2 By that I mean an ability to have a clear sense of what is important in our lives (the welfare of our families, the quality of our relationships, making other people happy, etc) and what is not (a problem at work, getting annoyed by trivial things, etc.).
综上所述,写作词汇的学习绝不能流于形式,考生不应该仅仅看重自己能认识几个单词,而应该看重自己正确搭配单词的能力。要知道英文的表达绝不是简单的按照主谓(宾)或是主系表的顺序拼凑几个单词,而是严格按照英文的表达习惯进行的。