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单词回顾 | 他们都是如何用“justify”和“amount”造句的?

2017-05-28 Justin 孟庆伟英文写作


5月25日的单词是“justify”,说某种做法合理时可以使用。它的名词形式“justification”和形容词形式“justifiable”也很常用,尤其可以用在议论文写作中。


下面是几个句子点评:


1. Under no circumstances, violence can be justified.


点评:如果用“under no circumstances”开头,句子要用倒装形式:


Under no circumstances can violence be justified.


2. The evil of the GWF cannot be justified in the name of national security and Internet sovereign.


点评:“be justified in the name of”这个搭配用得很好。根据有的用法指南,“internet”做形容词时“i”不需要大写。


3. No one can deny the importance of environmental protection. Sadly in China, however, environmental contamination is often justified by economic growth. 


点评:“justified”后面可以用“in the name of economic growth”或“on economical grounds”。


4. The ends don't justify the means.

点评:英文中经常出现的句子,意思是“不能为达到目的而不择手段”。应该是作者平时学习时积累的句子。



5月26日的单词是“amount to”,相当于“be tantamount to”,意思就是“相当于”。


下面是几个句子点评:

1. Forgetting history amounts to betrayal.

点评:很棒的句子。注意体会这个句子的简洁性和表达效果。


2. People who expoilt their connection's name to land a job through the back door amount to admit their weaker competence indirectly.

点评:作者的想法很好,但有几处小错误。我会这么改:


People who expoilt their connections to land a job through the back door amounts to indirectly admitting their weaker competence.


3. What he has done amounts to breaking the promise he made.

点评:很好的句子,可以更具体一些。


题图:Martin Niemöller 引言。 


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