大学英语写作中的赘述及其修改方法

• 作 者: 李争鸣
• 机 构: 北京师范大学外文学院,
• 出 处: 大学英语
• 发表日期: 2016年08期
• 关键词: 大学英语写作 写作实践 书面交流 obesity 冗余信息 verbal 修改方法 speak doing mother

写作中的赘述意指冗余信息,母语为英语者则把这一现象生动地比喻为文字肥胖症(verbal obesity)。中国大学生在英语写作实践中同样存在这一问题,其表现形式主要集中在同词赘述和语义赘述这两方面。为了使自己的习作言简意赅,更有效地与母语为英语者进行书面交流,学生们需有能力识别出含有赘述的句子,并掌握多种方法对其进行修改。

A redundant description in writing means redundant information, while a native English speaker compares this phenomenon vividly to verbal obesity. Chinese college students also have this problem in the practice of English writing, and their manifestations mainly focus on the repetition of the same words and the repetition of the semantic meaning. In order to make their own exercises succinctly and communicate effectively with native speakers of English, students need to be able to identify sentences that contain details and have multiple ways of modifying them.