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雅思英语图表作文要求考生能够用英文准确描述各类数据。用英语描述数据的方法大致有三种:
准确法
近似法
抽象法
雅思小作文
准确法所谓准确法,就是对数据进行精准的描述,包含英语基数词、分数和百分比。例如,40 people, 或 two thirds of people, 或 five out of ten people, 或40% of people。
请注意,当使用分数或百分比时,容易犯的错误就是漏掉介词of。如a quarter people, 或 20 per cent people。
近似法所谓近似法,就是通过各类表示近似的词汇,对数据进行放大或缩小的近似,如about 46% 或 more than 33 per cent等。 在对数据进行近似处理时,应遵循如下原则:
放大数据:突出数据大。如 76% 可以近似放大为 well under 80%
缩小数据,突出数据小。如11% 可以近似缩小为 just over 10%
抽象法所谓抽象法,需要大家使用一些抽象英语数量词汇,如none, all, every, very little, hardly any, most, a great deal of, an increasing number of,a high percentage of,the majority of 或 a small fraction of等等。
但请注意,a lot of, lots of, plenty of 等比较口语化的抽象数量词,不应出现在雅思英语作文中。
我们以下面这篇雅思小作文真题为例,来说明如何使用上述三种方法进行数据的描述。
The charts below show the proportions of British students at one university in England who were able to speak other languages in addition to English, in 2000 and 2010.
准确法: In 2000, 30% of the students were able to speak Spanish。By 2010,the proportion of Spanish speakers had risen to 35%, and the figure for German speakers remained at one in ten.
近似法:Almost 40% of studentsspoke Spanish only in 2010.
抽象法:It is noticeable that in both years, 2000 and 2010, the majority of British studentsat the university in question were able to speak at least one other language.
当然,并不是说要求大家必须在每一篇作文中,都使用上述三种方法。大家需要根据实际情况,决定使用哪些方法。但无论使用何种方法的目的都是为了对数据进行多样化的描述,以突出自身对英语语言的掌握程度,从而给考官留下好的印象。