英语写作同义词替换练习

第一讲

引发激烈讨论，热门话题，激烈争论，广泛关注

heated, hot, long-running, controversial, hotly-debated

a matter of (global )concern, (burning, pressing, thorny)issue, controversy, subject, focus, topic. be put on the agenda

trigger, spark, arouse

intense, fierce, contentious/ debate, discussion, argument

arouse people’s wide concern/ / wide public concern/curiosity/attention,

make people worried

become public focus/ the focus of the society

more and more people---an increasing number of people

more and more useful---increasingly useful

人---事物

More and more people waste ---The growing rate of waste have people calling it an epidemic

a lot of ---a considerable number of/ massive/

different people have different ideas towards it----people’s ideas towards it differ from one to another. ., views on this issue vary greatly.

try to—attempt to, intend to

think – argue, claim , deem , insist

if – provided that, assuming that, supposing that

一 写作常用关键词句：

1．认为，断言：think, believe, argue, hold, contend, state, claim, suppose, advocate, assume, point out, point to, allege, assert

personally, as for me, as far as I am concerned, for my part

2．许多：a large number of, a large amount of, a considerable number of, a host of, dozens of, scores of, the bulk of, a majority of 大部分的，a minority of小部分的

3．如今、目前：in contemporary society, nowadays, at present, recently, currently, in recent decades

4．越来越：increasing, growing

5．重要，必要，肯定主导，关键，根本, 意义重大：important, necessary, essential, vital, crucial, influential, overwhelming, primary, overriding, principal，fundamental, elementary, cardinal,

significant, indispensable, dominant, key, leading, prominent, decisive, major, gist, crux关键，

症结所在

6．关注、重视、强调、优先考虑、把…放首要位置：highlight, pay attention to, attract…, raise…concern, arouse… concern, call for…concern, attach importance to, give priority to,

lay emphasis/stress on

7．不予重视、忽视、低估、次要：downplay, overlook, ignore, neglect, underestimate,