Students can save time for doing other things if they attend these online classes.
我们再看看save time for的用法:
可以勉强将以上的例句理解为“省下”,但是其实是“保留、留出”,不是“节约”的意思,可见表达的意思仍然不够正确,再改!
为什么大家喜欢用”save time for…?“(为......省下时间)
先看看use… for的例句:
Humans use water for many recreational purposes, as well as for exercising and for sports.
Use – save
Water – time
Purpose/ exercising – doing
很多人眼里,英语像是套公式。公式在哪,我去其他句式里面找寻,把词汇换掉即可,这样做,显然不行。
那么表达目的和结果除了for还有啥?什么才是正确的?
比如因果关系的连词、副词(so, thus…)。
Students who attend such classes do not need to spend time traveling to and back from classrooms, and thus have more time for other things (than those who go to classrooms).
我们再看看这句话“这种学习方式打破了地域的限制”。你会写break through space?同样去求证权威网站并没有这样三个单词放在一起的用法,表达不出来我们想表达的意思。
聪明的同学会加入limitation (限制),得到break through limitation of space,很遗憾,搭配依然不存在;去掉through,break limitations也不行。
我们找找limitation同义词 比如constraint,得到break constraints可以。
但是constraints of space搭配又不存在。
那么我们换换space,得到geography,得到break constraints of geography,这样就可以。
由此我们把中式英语break through space换成了正确的表达break constraints of geography
总结
This kind of learning can save time for doing other things.【中式】
Students can save time for doing other things by/through this kind of learning.【中式】
Students can save time for doing other things if they attend these online classes.【中式】
Students who attend such classes do not need to spend time traveling to and back from classrooms, and thus have more time for other things (than those who go to classrooms).【正确】
This kind of learning can break through space.【中式】
This kind of learning can break through limitations of space. 【中式】
This kind of learning can break limitations of space. 【中式】
This kind of learning can break constraints of space. 【中式】
This kind of learning can break constraints of geography.【正确】
很多同学说,那问题来了
即使我能想到constraints,我还得查它和break是否搭配
即使 break constraints搭得上,我又需要査它和of space是否搭配
即使我发现了不搭,我哪里又能想到 constraints of geography是正确的!
一点儿也不简单
热衷干这事的人,或许是热爱汉语和英语的逐字对应。以上调整方式,对于英语很好的同学,是一种方法 ——找同义词来替换
对于英语不好的同学,是一个坑 “我怎么想到那些替换的词?” 是拼命背诵同义词资料?背了仍然不会用, 总是在不合适的时候替换
跳出这个坑吧!
用Elvis老师的换句思维方法,不去表达“打破了地域的限制”,换个意思,想想,打破了地域的限制这到底是干嘛?
无论学生在哪里,都可以上课
A. Students, wherever they live, can attend such classes, as long as they have Internet access
也就是说,学生可以上离自己很远的课程。
B. Students have access to lectures that are given in universities thousands of miles away
用 lectures作主语
C. These lectures are available to anyone who has Internet access
这些如果对于你来说还是很难的话,那我们尝试具体一点。你在中国可以听到哪里的老师讲课,比如在中国可以听美国的课程。
D. Asian students can attend online lectures given by professors who live in the US
看完这一篇同学们有对换句思维方法有一定的了解了吗~
加油吧!烤鸭们!你们是最棒的!