星期三, 2月 28, 2007

外文所考試最後衝刺之常用句型寫作

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(a) Introduction:

1. The purpose is to …
2. The goal for this ~ is to…
3. The aim of this presentation is to …

(b) Summarizing the contents:

1. First … Second …. Third (and last)…
2. To begin with … Moving right along … to close…
3. Step one is to…. After that we will …. And our final step is to …

(c) To hit the point

1. Let’s go over…
2. We are going to consider …
3. It’s time to discuss…

(d) Directing

1. Direct your attention to (at)..
2. Focus on …
3. Let’s take a look at …

(e) Explaining the details

1. As you can see from these data of ….
2. The data of … indicate that …
3. The data of … show that ….
4. The data of … prove that…
5. The data of … highlight the fact that …

(f) Introducing an example

1. This example shows…
2. Here is an example showing ….
3. This example focuses on …
4. The example is ….
5. Each example in (1) represents …
5. The ~ in (2) illustrates …

Making comparisons
(a) Differences

1. There are important differences between A and B
2. These are great distinctions …
3. These are obvious contrasts ….
4. We can see discrepancies…
5. We can find great differences…

(b) Calculations

1. After analysis, we arrive at the conclusion…
2. Our tabulations shows that …
3. We study the data and came up with the result that …
4. I did some comparison and found that …

(c)

1. If… then…
2. When …happens, …happens.
3. When we do …, …occurs.
4. …cause ….
5. ….were all due to …
6. ….results in …
7. ….leads to …

(d) switching to another topic.

1. In terms of …
2. With regard to …
3. In reference to …
4. From the point of view of …
5. As far as…is concerned,

(e) Predictions

1. I predict that …
2. Our forecasts show that …
3. We expect that …
4. I anticipate that …
5. We can foretell that …

(f) personal belief.

1. I believe that …
2. My opinion is that …
3. It is my belief that …
4. I think that …
5. I am inclined to think that …

(g)

1. My point is that …
2. My thesis is that …
3. The crux of the matter is that …
4. What I am saying is that…
5. What I am getting at is that …

(h)

1. What is more,
2. In addition to this,
3. Furthermore,
4. Moreover,
5. Plus,

(i) Goal

1. Our major long term goal is …(that) …
2. Our most important priority is (to) …
3. The chief objective is …
4. One target to shoot for is …
5. One of our goals is …

(j) Expressing hypotheses
If …., ..would/should/ should most likely …

…ought to/ must /should /most likely will ….

1. We recommend that …
2. We strongly urge
3. We would recommend that …
4. We advise that …
5. We suggest that…

(k) Concluding

1. To sump up,…
2. To summarize my main points,…
3. Let me sum up;
4. To recap the chief point,
5. To conclude,…

(l)
X= someone
Y= idea
S= sentence

(a) X, for example, has argued that S ‘X 認為…’
(b) X contends that S ‘X 主張/聲稱…’
(c) X has tried to show that S ‘X 認為…’
(d) X’s contention is that S ‘X 主張/聲稱…’
(e) X describes Y in these terms ‘S’ ‘X曾如此描述Y…’
(f) It is assumed that S ‘‘人們以為…’
(g) It was once thought that S ‘‘人們曾以為…’
(h) Y is said to be ‘Y 被認為…’
(i) The main idea of Y is to V… ‘Y 最主要的目的是…’
(j) A number of empirical studies show that S ‘證據顯示…’
(k) Evidence shows that ~
(l) Below you will find that S … ‘以下說明S…’
(m) It is important to ensure that S ‘S 很重要’
(n) …; that is to say… ‘換句話說’
(o) …, suggesting that …
e.g Inductive reasoning was found to be more effective with reflective persons, suggesting that generally reflective persons could benefit more from inductive learning situations.

(p) X relate to … ‘X 與…相關’
(q) X pertain to …
X implies an approach in which …

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