雅思最常用错的组词解析_雅思写作

    雅思小因为比较模式化,相对来说用错词的情况也少一些。提醒考生们在常见错误方面应注意:在谈及价位时我们应该用高低而非大小贵贱来表达,即high/low price 而非big/small price 或者expensive/cheap price; great value而不是big value; their living condition is poor而非bad等等。其实,小作文中比较集中的错误在“比较与对比”搞不清楚,所以出现 ‘compare’与 ‘contrast’ 的使用错误,这里我们详细说一下。
    一、compare与contrast的误用
    我们先从两者的定义入手来看两者的区别。compare的定义为:to examine people or things to see how they are similar or different. contrast的定义为:to compare two or more things to show the difference between them. 由定义不难看出前者侧重于找到两个或多个事物的异同,而后者则侧重于它们的不同。
    看个例句:
    it is interesting to compare their situations to ours./it is interesting to contrast their situations to ours.
    前一句翻译为:对比一下我们的情况与他们的情况会很有趣。
    后一句的翻译为:我们的情况与他们的情况有很大的不同,这很有趣。
    再看一个引自oxford adbanced learner’s dictionary的例子:
    there is an obvious contrast between the culture of east and west.
    the company lost $7 million in contrast to a profit of $6.2 million a year earlier.
    when you look at their new system, ours seems very old-fashioned by contrast.
    不难发现,compare 翻译为“ 与。。。相比”而contrast可译为“明显不同的是。。。”,切记这种翻译方式就不会用错彼此了。
    二、介词使用错误
    1、普通介词的误用
    一般表现为固定搭配错误,如常把provide sb with sth用成provide sb sth; be satisfied with用成be satisfied for等等,虽然这样的错误看似无伤大雅,但在考官眼里就是影响顺畅阅读的,当然会影响最终成绩。解决的办法简单而古老:把常见的固定搭配牢记于心,问题自然就解决了。
    2、“to”作为介词的误用
    “to”最常见的用法是以动词不定式符号的形式出现的,所以们也已经习惯了 “to do”的固定搭配。对于一些如walk to me, to the left等介词to表方向等常见用法一般也不会出现错误。但是对于与动词搭配的介词to就会经常犯错:
    如:
    more and more students have taken to depend on their parents to make decision for them.
    这里的 ‘take to’ means ‘to begin to do sth as a habit’ 其中 ‘to’为介词,所以后面只能接名词或相当于名词的词,如动名词。所以黑体处应改为“depending on”。“take to”的另一个常用用法也需要牢记:
    he hasn’t taken to his new school. (这里‘take to’ means ‘to start liking sb or sth’)
    prefer a to b中的 “to”也是介词,会有 prefer doing sth to doing sth/ prefer sth to sth else, 这里朗阁海外考试研究中心提醒您,“prefer to do sth rather than do sth”中的“to”可是真正的不定式符号。
    类似的常用用法请同学们牢记:
    be used to doing
    be accustomed to doing
    see to doing
    adapt to doing
    adjust to doing
    prefer doing sth. to doing sth.
    等等,请注意平时仔细积累。