托福寫作不宜過分冗長 言簡意賅更獲青睞

托福寫作中，有些考生為了想表現(xiàn)的更多，拿到更高的分?jǐn)?shù)，源源不斷的將一些自己儲存的高分詞組、精彩句型放在文章里。這想法是好的，可是這也需要適可而止。英語作文中奉行“言簡樸實(shí)”原則，句子越短越好，能用一個單詞表達(dá)就絕不要用兩個。所以在托福寫作中，我們需要注意避免兩個方面。

一、 避免空洞的單詞和詞組

1. 在托福寫作考試中，一些空洞的單詞或詞組根本不能為句子帶來任何相關(guān)的或重要的信息，完全可以被刪掉。比如下面的句子：

When all things are considered, young adults of today live more satisfying lives than those of their parents, in my opinion.

這句話當(dāng)中的“when all things are considered”和“in my opinion“都顯得多余。完全可以去掉。改為：

Young adults of today live more satisfying lives than their parents.

2. 有些空洞和繁瑣的表達(dá)方式可以進(jìn)行替換，例如：

Due to the fact that our grandparents were under an obligation to help their parents, they did not have the options that young people have at this point in time.

“due to the fact that”就是一個很典型的繁瑣的表達(dá)方式的例子，可以替換，簡化為下面的表達(dá)方式：

Because our grandparents were obligated to help their parents, they did not have the options that young people have now.

二、避免重復(fù)

1. 在托福寫作考試中，盡量避免重復(fù)使用同樣的詞匯�；蛘哂械臅r候雖然詞匯沒有重復(fù)，但意思卻有重復(fù)。這時候可以做一些簡化的工作。例如下面這個例子：

The farm my grandfather grew up on was large in size.

large 對一個farm來說就是size方面的large，所以in size可以去掉，改為：

The farm my grandfather grew up on was large.

更簡潔的表達(dá)方式為：

My grandfather grew up on a large farm.

2. 有時一個詞組可以用一個更簡單的單詞來替換，例如：

My grandfather has said over and over again that he had to work on his parents' farm.

這里的over and over again就可以改為repeatedly，顯得更為簡潔：

My grandfather has said repeatedly that he had to work on his parents' farm.