托福寫作最易混淆的詞匯

　　1、Original: Bill Gates gives a definite answer that college education does count.

　　Revised: Bill Gates gave a definitive answer: college education does count.

　　Definite意思是“明確的”、“一定的”，指意思明確，不會誤解;definitive也是“明確”的意思，但往往指“權(quán)威性、最后決定的”。此話出自比爾?蓋茨之口，體現(xiàn)權(quán)威性，故將definite改為definitive。

　　2、Original: …people may attend a university or college for various reasons...

　　Revised: …people attend university or college for a multitude of reasons...

　　此處將various改為短語a multitude of更為正式，體現(xiàn)人們讀大學(xué)的原因很多。

　　3、Original: The kinds of education that we got on school are formal and intense ones...

　　Revised: The kinds of education that we receive at school is formal and of ten times very intense.

　　不必用kinds of education，直接用education(教育)即可;“受教育”不同get，改為receive;“在學(xué)校”不必用at school;把one去掉，用often times very intense指出學(xué)校教育常常是非常嚴(yán)格的。

　　4、Original: They can foster their interests in some fields to make life more colorful and meaningful.

　　Revised: They can even pick up hobbies to make life more colorful and enjoyable.

　　Foster their interests是“培養(yǎng)興趣”，此處用pick up hobbies(開始各種各樣的興趣)更為合適;不同的興趣是我們生活的調(diào)味劑，使我們的生活多姿多彩，樂趣無窮，把meaningful換成enjoyable，與colorful搭配更合適。

　　5、Original: Needless to say, more employment means more income and less idle life, so that people can enjoy a better life and make investment in their future.

　　Revised: Needless to say, more employment means income and less idle time, so that people can enjoy a better life and invest in their own futures.

　　把idle life改為idle time更為合適，表示“閑散時間”;make investment可改為動詞invest，與and前的動詞enjoy詞性一致;人們各自有自己的未來，故將in their future改為in their own futures。

　　6、Original: Another important factor that contributes to the extension of life expectancy is the development of medical science.

　　Revised: Another important factor that contributes to the rise in life expectancy is the development of medical science.

　　“人的壽命的延長”可以表示為life extension，但是如果用life expectancy，則要用the increase of 或the rise in life expectancy。

　　7、Original: the growth of life span.

　　Revised: the rise in/increase of life span.

　　Life span意思是“壽命”，growth指“生長，增長”，“壽命的延長”用growth不合適，life span“壽命的延長”可以用rise in/increase of/extension of.

　　8、Original: energy saving

　　Revised: energy efficiency

　　Energy saving一般作定語，此處名詞短語“節(jié)能”最好用energy efficiency。

　　9、Original: with the increasing complicatedness of the job profile

　　Revised: with the increasing complexity of the modern jor profile

　　Complicatedness意思是“錯綜復(fù)雜”，但是這種錯綜復(fù)雜是有邏輯的;complexity也是“復(fù)雜”的意思，但這種復(fù)雜是雜亂無辜的，現(xiàn)代的工作情況用complexity較為合適。

　　10、Original: Such experience will difinitely be helpful in children'slater life.

　　Revised: Such experience will benefit them later in life.

　　Helpful是“提供幫助”的意思，而benefit是“使…受益”。這里作者想說的是孩子將來的人生會受益于這樣的經(jīng)歷，用benefit合適，因為這樣的經(jīng)歷不一定能對孩子將來的人生提供什么具體的幫助。

　　以上就是托福寫作最易混淆的詞匯的分享，希望對同學(xué)們的備考有幫助。最后，小編預(yù)祝同學(xué)們考試順利!