析经济学人，习高分作文/02

做学生就多考分，做成人就多挣钱，这样尊严才可以多一点。

——我离托福考试只剩24天。

周三早上好，新的一月开始了，重新列个计划，继续充实每一天吧。

经济学人的可学之处之一在于，同义动词使用地非常多。而我们在进行英文写作时，却经常会感到无词可用，同一个单词翻来覆去抄了好几遍。

来看一下我保存的别人文章里，说经济学人如何用不同的单词表达同一个意思的:

Eventually, America ran into trouble too. The tech-stock bubble burst in early 2000, prompting a broader share price slump. Business investment particularly in technology, sank; and as share prices fell, consumers cut back. By early 2001 America, along with most of the rich world, had slipped into recession, albeit a mild one.

Germany's growth rate has tumbled to around 1%.

But if the world economy does stumble, storing stability will be harder this time round because policymakers have so little room for maneuver.

如果你认真读完的话，假设还顺手查了生单词，一般这些都是加粗的，那么你最初的一看到“减少”就想起的的"reduce" 是不是吓得不敢出来了？

下面进入正题。

Investors also focused on whether OPEC members will agree to cut oil production, and thus lift oil prices (and oil-industry profits), at their forthcoming meeting.

这里的两个动词都很简单，而且更加形象，因为宾语是有形产物，化用的引申义，比reduce 和 raise 之类丰富得多。

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句型：cut A and thus lift B

How to get a high grade? Cut your sleeping time and then lift the studying activity.

Traffic from China has also waned following the victory of the pro-nationalist party in Taiwan's presidential election, which has soured cross-strait relations.

wane and wax 这两个是反义词。

wane: If a feeling or power wanes, it becomes weaker or less important.

wax: to become bigger or stronger  mainly literary 

句型：sour the relationships 关系恶化

 If a relationship or situation sours, or if something sours it, it stops being successful or satisfactory.

Chances are high that money soured the relationships among friends.

The election of Donald Trump is expected to smooth final consent for the project.

consent: permission to do something

agreement, acquiescence, approval, assent, compliance, go-ahead

句型： smooth final consent for

They had better smooth the final consent for the program.

IN 2012 he dismissed climate change as a coax cooked by Chinese.

hoax：恶作剧

trick, deception, fraud, practical joke, prank, spoof (informal), swindle

这个用法很幽默了，cook 本来有做饭的意思，cook up 是虚构、伪造， invent a story, excuse, or plan

句型： cook up a coax

dismiss: to refuse to accept that something might be true or important

这个单词用在反驳句型中，相当给力。

His argument was dismissed as a coax cooked by himself.

Plenty of Mr Trump's voters dismiss climate change itself as a phoney fad peddled by "bicoastialetites".

同样的句式又出现了，

phoney: not real and intended to trick people

peddle: to try to make people believe a story, explanation, or idea, especially when it is wrong

哇塞，简直是同义句型替换呀是不是。

句型：peddle a phoney fad 

His reason was peddled as as a phony fad in such an age.

今日总结：

cut A and thus lift B

sour the relationship

smooth final consent

dismiss X as a coax cooked up by

dismiss X as a phoney fad paddled by

推荐阅读：经济学人中有哪些好的句子和表达？（2）

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