SAT作文素材：你逃不过的替换词汇（五）

　　SSAT作文二选一类型中，creative prompt（创意型写作）需要学生掌握更多的词汇和逻辑的故事连接，essay（分析型写作）类型则需要学生将观点论证清楚。不管是哪种类型，学生都要具备良好的理解分析能力，能够做好对语言的把控。

　　作文素材：

　　1. pose v.

　　– 1. ~ sth 造成（威胁、问题等）；引起

　　– 2. ~ a question 提问；质询

　　E.g. And liberals think concentrations of power pose a threat.

　　自由主义者认为权利的集中会产生威胁。

　　pose 的常用搭配有：

　　pose a threat/danger/risk

　　pose a challenge/question/dilemma to/for sb./sth.

　　“产生/造成”，最常用的是 cause/lead to，在合适的语境下，cause/lead to 可用 bring about/result in/pose 等替代。

　　另外：

　　impose，迫使、推行；

　　compose，组成、作曲、撰写、使平静。

　　2.grapple v.

　　– 1. 扭打，搏斗

　　– 2. 努力设法解决

　　E.g. Today’s liberals like to think that they are grappling with uniquely difficult issues.

　　当今的自由主义者都愿觉得他们正在努力解决一些特别困难的问题。

　　grapple 的常用搭配：

　　grapple with sth. 与…搏斗，尽力解决

　　SAT OG Writing 部分给出的 Sample 中，有如下一段：

　　Adapted from Peter S. Goodman, “Foreign News at a Crisis Point.” ©2013 by TheHuffingtonPost.com, Inc.

　　All of this decline was playing outat a time when the U.S. wasembroiledin two overseas wars, with hundreds of thousands of Americans deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan.It was happening asdomestic politicsgrappled withthe merits and consequences of a global war on terror,asa Great Recession was blamed in part on global imbalances in savings, andasworld leaders debated a global trade treaty and pacts aimed at addressing climate change.It unfolded asAmerican workers heard increasingly that their wages and job security were under assault by competition from counterparts on the other side of oceans.

　　旨在说明在美国在军事、政治、经济、环境和民生五方面与国际纠葛很深的时代背景下， 国外新闻记者/部门/版面都削减的趋势是极为不合理的。

　　这段很多学生会产生理解偏差，即使理解正确也不容易抓到五层五个方面的并列逻辑。如果在第一遍阅读时正确理解 embroil（使卷入纠纷；使陷入困境）, grapple with 这类词，有助于从最开始推导这里的五层并列关系。

　　3. 努力做...

　　–roll up one’s sleeves and get down to doing sth.

　　E.g. But far from shrinking from the task, the liberal thinkers of yesteryear would have rolled up their sleeves and got down to making the world a better place.

　　比起临阵退缩，过去的自由主义思想者会拉起袖子努力使世界变得更美好。

　　4.“对事即对人”

　　– "Any statement of fact becomes a question of motive. "

　　在翻阅之前摘录的词句时，看到20世纪著名思想家 Hannah Arendt 的 “Any statement of fact becomes a question of motive.”

　　如何表述事实取决于动机。

　　E.g. When power dominates truth, criticism becomes betrayal. Critics cannot appeal to neutral facts and remain loyal, because facts are not neutral. As Hannah Arendt wrote of the 1920s and 1930s, any statement of fact becomes a question of motive.

　　这句 quotation 适合用于分析批判类作文中，增强说服力。

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