析经济学人，习高分作文/17
With immense size comes intense scrutiny.
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09天。
周四早上好，今天继续看作文，毕竟是句型专栏，要应用到实处才好。
IELTS Writing Task 2 Sample 340
Do you agree or disagree with the following statement?
The best way to travel is in a group led by a tour guide.
Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.
我在开头引出背景和话题，主体段将正反双方的观点都讨论了一下， 然后末尾说了下自己的观点，这是四段论，当时是不限时写的。
习作/良辰美
As technologies advance and economy boosts, nowadays the wide highways and convenient cars create perfect conditions for those loving to travel to fully appreciate it. Paradoxically, controversy arises when comparing the way to travel in a group or by oneself.
Supporters of group-travelling argues that we can not only make new friends but also ensure our safety. Besides, without any knowledge of the destination, a tour guide could save us both time and money, which is what we wish, for the purpose of going out is to relax ourselves instead of facing troubles. Another reason why we should choose to follow others is our human nature. As social animals, we tend to interact with each other and refuse to stay alone. Moreover, during the journey, we can meet many new people and fresh events, which could enlarge our social nets and broaden the horizon. Should the trip be boring and dangerous, we had better find someone to talk and help mutually
Opponents maintain the benefits brought by self-guidance. Start with freedom. Undoubtedly, one could explore everywhere s/he is curious and no deadline limits him or her. Staying with others indeed could reduce chances of getting confronted with problems sometimes, but also prevent one wandering at ease, freely and randomly, as s/he likes. Next comes the role of solitude. Actually, to escape from the daily noisy communications is part of the desire for some. At first glance, companions seem able to be beneficial for us.However, upon further reflection, we could find that boredom and danger never gives up chasing after you because we might encounter another ill-mannered and bad-behaved person. Chances are high that we may be involved with an unknown event or even crimes provided we are unlucky enough. Plus, it has become a common practice for us to seek assistance from the web, case in point: cell phones with map, restaurant, hotel apps and so on function as our guide, which means we could easily arrive the place we plan to go and avoid those annoying things with reference to others’ comments on the scenic spots. Be it flexible schedules and no-bothering place, one could better enjoying himself/herself.
As for me, I prefer to venture by myself because my top priority is freedom, nothing else I would care. I am also the type of person concerning more on tranquility. Thus I definitely would like to choose to play all over the world without anyone else. In fact, everyone makes choices that align with his or her preferences. Therefore, it is not a question about “the best way”. Rather it is which way suits one best.
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Jul 30th 2018 | Travel | 444 words
重读一遍觉得很不对劲，词语搭配很可能不当，有些应该完全是中式英语，但是自己一时更改不到位，而在运用的句型中觉得没有奇怪的地方。
作者/Zoe
With the rapid development of economy, more and more people chose to go abroad for vacations. Recently, a prevalent statement among the tourists is that traveling in a group with a tour guide is the best way for sightseeing. However, a considerable number of opponents propose the different idea that the self-guided tour is better than traveling in a group. As far as I am concerned, the latter view seems to align more with my perspective. Two reasons would suffice here to support my point of view.
First and foremost, despite the fact that, to some extent, traveling in a group led by a tour guide is the more convenient to visit exotic lands, the advantage of the independent travel could not be ignored, that is because self-traveling is more flexible than the other one. Specifically, by traveling in a group, people always are strictly limited by the time of visiting and always get annoyed of the time allocation. In contrast, if they travel by themselves, they are allowed to spare more time on the sites that really attract them. For instance, last year, my friend and I decided to go to Thailand for spring vacation. The difference is that she joined in a tour group with a leading guide, whereas I traveled along with my boyfriend. She complained to me latter after the vacation that she barely had time to go shopping at the central mall where she had planed to visit for a long time and had to ask me for a favor to buy her desired make-up(cosmetics) for her since I scheduled enough time for shopping. Thus, independent travel may seem like complex when making the plan by yourselves, but it is totally worth because you could have more flexible schedule to visit the place that interests you. Needless to say, when traveling in a group, your tour guides may sometimes force you to spend more money on the merchandise which you don’t need for high commission. To illustrate, some Hong Kong tour guides have been reported to compel the visitors buy the luxury watch or expensive jade in the recent years. According to the news, they even hurt the tourists who refused to buy the recommended things. Not only did this scandal shocked the public, but it also led to a negative impact on the tourism market. Therefore, traveling in a group is not the best way for visiting since it may cause uncertain troubles and cost more money than you expect.
Consequently, we could safely draw the conclusion that it is not the best way to travel in a grope with a guide.
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2016-11-02 21:41:28 | From https://www.douban.com/note/590036824/
从这篇作文里可以看出，光背单词然后就堆砌词义造句是很可怕的事情，没有大量阅读原版英语，行文中词不达意搭配不到错词错句漏洞百出。
Sample
Travelling is an excellent way to enhance our knowledge and experience. Travelling offers us first-hand experience of different places, cultures, customs, traditions, history and presents us the opportunity to explore the world as well as ourselves. However, people often express their view that travelling in a group which is led by a tour guide is the best way to get advantages of the travelling. I quite agree with this viewpoint and this essay expresses the reason for my opinion.
First of all, travelling in a group which is led by an experienced chaperone offers us the best possible information and knowledge we can learn from travelling. The experienced guide will plan the schedule and will explain the importance of a place or its historic significance. From their experiences, tour guides can select the best possible routine and time schedule while visiting numerous places in an area. This not only ensures a safe travel and tour experience to travellers but also gives them best possible value for their money and time. Tour guides know what vehicles to use, what dangers to avoid, when to start a tour, where to stay, where to dine and so on. This is quite impossible while travelling alone. Travelling in a group is an excellent way to meet new people while travelling alone might make an explorer bored in few days. We are human and we need company no matter what we do. Travelling is no exception and having good companions while travelling is safe, less costly, more adventurous and enjoyable.
Secondly, a tour guide is a professional who has a good communication skill and extensive knowledge of the local culture and history. While visiting a place the historic significance and other important facts about it often makes it worth visiting. For instance, a single tourist might not enjoy visiting a place, but the attractions of this place increase when the tour guide explains the significance of this place and people visit this place in a group. Thus group activity is another important reason we enjoy our travel and this is only possible for travellers who travel in a group guided by an experienced escort.
Finally, group members often become good friends and they help each other when they travel together. Travelling alone for any individual, especially for a woman, is not always safe. Above all, we always need a professional to assist us planning and executing our plans. Travelling is no exception in this regard.
In conclusion, I strongly agree that travelling in a group led by an experienced guide is far better than travelling alone due to the numerous benefits of travelling in a group offers. Personally, I would always prefer travelling with a group of people which will be led by professional tour planners and guides.
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Saturday, 10 December 2016 01:02 | From https://www.ielts-mentor.com/writing-sample/writing-task-2/1330-ielts-writing-task-2-sample-340-the-best-way-to-travel-is-in-a-group-led-by-a-tour-guide
雅思的官方范文没有出彩的地方，但也没有出错的地方，同一个名/动词重复使用不超过三次，而且逻辑严谨秩序井然理由充分，其中的内容是锦上添花获得高分的关键，但是基础不牢一下子就限制在了低分区域如何更上一层楼呢。
作文/Gianglp
Nowadays, taking a tour has become one of the most common ways to travel. However, from my own experience, I think it would be better if we go on a back-packing tour without a tour guide.
One thing I like most about back-packing is that I don’t have to stick to a schedule. It also means that I could explore more places as well as staying at my favorite ones as long as I want. When you travel in a group, usually, you won’t be able to go to all the places you are interested in. Although you pay for the trip, you will find yourself getting stuck with a tour guide - a stranger who hardly stops talking about the boring history, the local culture and everything in the world like your teacher. If I could choose, I’d rather enjoy exploring discovering that information myself.
Besides, traveling in a group also means less freedom and lack of privacy. I once took a trip to Japan through a tourist company and I really regretted about it. I couldn’t go to Akiba, one of the best electronic device centres in Tokyo because the group voted and decided to go to a nearby plaza instead. What is the point of paying your money without the right to decide where you can go?
Another reason to get rid of tour guides is that they come together with more money. And sometimes, they are just hopeless. Some tour guides don’t even know about the places they take you to. Instead of squandering my money on them, I’d rather ask my local friends to guide me.
In short, if I save enough money for my traveling plan, I would just take my package and enjoy the trip with my friends. A tour guide is just a waste of time and money. You should save that money to buy your parents some gifts when you come back.
Nov '10 | From https://forum.english.best/t/the-best-way-to-travel-is-in-a-group-led-by-a-tour-guide/41395/2
经济学人中有许多惊艳的文字，然后读许多其他人写的东西就很无趣了，这再中文里也是类似吧？同样是写字，为什么有人读者众多，有人零星寥寥？
功夫都在诗外，华丽辞藻都是表面努力，真正的修行还是在生活之中。
下面进入正题。
▁▂▃▅▆ ▊▷/A〓
Yet all these pale into insignificance against the biggest issue of all: what sort of deal can Britain extract from its 27 EU partner?
这个句型可以说是很常见了，但这句话是我第一次找到的，因为之前都是直接听别人讲的这个。
A pale/fade into insignificance when set/compared aginst B
在B的对比下，A就黯然失色了。
▁▂▃▅▆ ▊§/B〓
The tensions between them say more about their roles than about their styles or outlook.
这个句型很实用了，而且有拟人化的意味。
Sth say more about ... than about ...
▁▂▃▅▆ ▊¶/C〓
Strenuous efforts by China to cut emissions would also mean vast domestic demand for clean-energy technology, which would help the country's firms to consolidate their lead in supplying a fast-growing, and lucrative, global market.
地道词组在于词语搭配。
- - strenuous effort
- - cut emission
- - vast demand
- - considate their lead
除了多看多积累，我不知道有什么其他更好的学习方法，因为没见过就不知道，这玩意儿也没法推理啊，不像数学那样有严密的公理论证。语言可以总结出一套规则，但就算是语法也那么多还有特例，要是说语感那就更玄了。
▁▂▃▅▆ ▊◆/D〓
That hope has been shaken by Mr Trump's election, but not extinguished.
非常好用的动词，表现在形象、具体。
但是最常见的是抽象、大众化的动宾搭配，那就自然索然无趣了。
▁▂▃▅▆ ▊★/E〓
With immense size comes intense scrutiny.
这样的短语妙在前后对称，韵律优美。
自己真写不出来，但是可以模仿啊。
With great power comes heavy responsibility.
今日总结：
【1】pale into insignifiance against
【2】the tensions say more about ... than about ...
【3】Strenuous efforts to consolidate their lead
【4】That hope has been shaken by ... but not extinguished.
【5】With ... comes ...
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