(1)常用動詞
例:For example,they do not compensate for gross social inequality,and thus do not tell how able an underprivileged youngster might have been had he grown up under more favorable circumstances.
例如,測試并不能彌補(bǔ)明顯的社會不公;因此,它們不能說明一個物質(zhì)條件差的年輕人,如果在較好的環(huán)境下成長的話,會有多大才干。
(2)高難動詞
例:How well the predictions will be validated by later performance depends upon the amount,reliability,and appropriateness of the information used and on the skill and wisdom with which it is interpreted.
這些預(yù)測在多大程度上為后來的表現(xiàn)所證實(shí),這取決于所采用信息的數(shù)量、可靠性和適宜性,以及解釋這些信息的技能和才智。
(3)容易混消的動詞
例:Interest in historical methods has arisen less through external challenge to the validity of history as an intellectual discipline and more from internal quarrels among historians themselves.
人們之所以關(guān)注歷史研究的方法論,主要是因?yàn)槭穼W(xué)界內(nèi)部意見不一,其次是因?yàn)橥饨绮⒉徽J(rèn)為歷史是一門學(xué)問。
(4)動詞短語
例:Furthermore,it is obvious that the strength of a country''s economy is directly bound up with the efficiency of its agriculture and industry,and that this in turn rests upon the efforts of scientists and technologists of all kinds.
再者,顯而易見的是一個國家的經(jīng)濟(jì)實(shí)力與其工農(nóng)業(yè)生產(chǎn)效率密切相關(guān),而效率的提高則又有賴于各種科技人員的努力。