在大量閱讀，強化語法的基礎上，相信你現在寫作時已經能夠做到少犯或不犯語法錯誤，寫出來的英文還算湊合了，這個時候如果需要進一步提高文筆應該怎么做？可以采用精讀經濟學人以及使用英英詞典和搭配詞典的方法。以Academic Writing 為例，一篇漂亮的文章至少要做到以下幾點：句式豐富多變，長短句靈活應用，用詞準確出彩，論點豐富，論證有力，邏輯嚴謹。而經濟學人就滿足這種“漂亮”文章的標準，是非常好的閱讀和模仿素材。好的文章是模仿出來的，要學會模仿閱讀時遇到的優美的詞匯用法、句型結構、巧妙的比喻、幽默的風格等等，慢慢化為自己的熟練表達。

比如很多人習作中出現的一個問題是句式單一，用詞平庸。我們可以學習一下經濟學人文章的寫法，增加語言的張力。舉個例子，下面的這一段節選自上周的經濟學人文章 The enemy within:

EMPLOYEES are often said to be a company’s biggest resource. It is equally true that they are its biggest liability.Scarcely a week goes by without a company falling victim to employees-turned-enemies-or-embarrassments. On July 20th Ashley Madison, a website for married people looking to have an affair, announced that it had been hacked. Noel Biderman, the company’s chief executive, says that he thinks the attack was “an inside job”. On July 6th HSBC fired a group of employees when it emerged that they had filmed themselves engaged inan “ISIS-style mock beheading” of an Asian colleague dressed in an orange jumpsuit.

The most familiar type of enemy within is the fraudster. The Economist Intelligence Unit, a sister organisation of The Economist, conducts a regular poll of senior executives on the subject of fraud committed by insiders. In 2013 the poll discovered that about 70% of companies had suffered from at least one instance of fraud, up from 61% in the previous survey. Fraud is often petty: a survey of British employees for YouGov in 2010 found that a quarter of staff eligible for expenses admitted to inflating claims. But fraud can also be more audacious and more harmful: think of former employees setting up rivals using stolen technology and purloined client lists.

從上面的文章中我們可以學到什么？ 

4個寫作時可以用上的句式：

1....are often said to...it is equally true that...

2.Scarcely a week/month/year goes by without... 

3....when it emerged that...

4.discovered that about 70% ...up from 61%...

10個詞匯和短語：

1.liability

2.fall victim to

3.have an affair4.behead

5.fraudster

6.eligible for

7.inflate (to make a number or price higher than it should be)

8.audacious

9.set up10.purloin

這僅僅是兩小段而已，整篇文章能學到的東西更多。你可以有意識地將上面學到的單詞和句式應用到你的寫作中去，比如第一個句型"...are often said to...it is equally true that..."可以用來說明事物具有兩面性，這個句式不知道比那句蹩腳的 "there are advantages and disadvantages..." 要高到哪里去了。

送個福利給大家吧，我用必克英語背單詞學習英語，碰到好的句型以及值得注意的詞匯短語會把它們都做上標記，到目前為止已經積累了1000多條筆記了。分享給大家一起用：https://m.spiiker.com/event/word/

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