Select exactly the right word.
Inaccurate: I was disgusted because rain spoiled our picnic.
Accurate: I was disappointed because rain spoiled our picnic.
Accurate: I was disgusted by the mindless violence in the movie.
Do not---we repeat, do not---confuse words because they sound alike or are similar in meaning
Wrong word: today’s society has been pilfered with barrage legalized drugs
Improved: a barrage of legalized drugs has proliferated in today’s society.
Wrong: the Russians have not been sufficiently forthcoming about the treaty.
Improved: the Russians have not been sufficiently forthright about the treaty.
Use lively, concrete, specific terms.
Limp: we got into the car.
Improved: all four of us piled into Herman’sHond.
Limp: this dog came up, all excited.
Improved: “a dog came bounding among us with a loud volley of barks and leap round us wagging its whole body, wild with lee at finding so many human beings together.”
Move run sprint
Vehicle car sedan Jaguar
Animal dog Collie Lassie
Dull:Seymourwas up late last night trying to finish typing his term paper.
Specific: Seymor sat hunched over his typewriter, pecking away doggedly until three o’clock in the morning, trying to finish his paper on the mating habits of hippopotamuses.
Avoid bafflegab
Bafflegab: the production of toxic and noxious residue hydrochloric acid obviates its efficacious application since it my prove compatible with metallic permanence.
Translation: don’t use hydrochloric acid: it eats hell out of the pipes,
Bafflegab; Consumer elements are continuing to stress the fundamental necessity of a stabilization of the price structure at a lower level than exists at the present time.
Translation: Consumer keep saying that prices must go down and stay down.
Bafflegab: the finance director claimed that substantial economies ere being effected in his division by increasing the time interval between distribution of data-eliciting forms to business entities.
Translation: the fiancé director said his division was saving money by sending fewer questionnaires to employers.
Avoid doublespeak
“protection reaction strike” (meaning bombing)
“to terminate with extreme prejudice” (to assassinate)
“that statement is inoperative” (it is untrue)
Be selective with euphemisms
Powder room (women’s toilet)
Unmentionables (underwear)
Passed away (died)
Sanitation engineer (garbage collector)
Do not compare words that denote absolutes, like unique, omnipotent, infinite.
Illogical:Cloviscame up with a very unique design.
Improved:Cloviscame up with a unique design.
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Formal, informal, colloquial
Automobile car ride
Comprehend understand dig
Depart leave split
Residence house crib
Offensive unpleasant gross
Exhausted tired out wasted
Dejected sad down
Hyperactive jittery wired
Intoxicated drunk sloshed
1. 避免重复
After the performance, we went to Karl’s house to discuss whether it was an effective performance.
After the performance, we went to Karl’s house to discuss whether our production was effective.
The length of his hair adds to the wild appearance of his hair.
The length of his hair adds to its wild appearance.
Walking up to the door, I came upon the skeleton head of a cow placed next to the door.
Walking up to the house, I came upon the skeleton head of a cow placed,
2. 词汇的准确对应
Your first big city is an event that changes you whole outlook if you grew up in a small town.
Your first visit to a big city is an experience that changes you whole outlook if you grew up in a small town.
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The importance of granceful hip movement is essential when doing the Bump.
Graceful hip movement is essential when doing the Bump.
Smoothness and precision are among the basic problems encountered by beginning dancers.
Roughness and imprecision are among the weaknesses of beginning dancers.
Possessive
3. Spell out numbers one hundred and under. In general, write numbers over one hundred in figures. Spell out round numbers requiring only a couple of words (two hundred tons, five thousand dollars). If a series of numbers occurs in a passage, and some of them are over hundred, use figures for all of them.
4. Never begin a sentence with a numeral; spell it out or rewrite the sentence.
5. use commas to separate numerals and place names and to set off names of people from titles.
A. Eudora, who was born November 15, 1950, inDenver,Colorado, moved toDallas,Texas, before she was old enough to ski.
B. You may write to Laverne at375 Fairview Avenue,Arlington,TX20036.
C. My friend Laverne lives inArlington,Texas.
D. Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. writes intelligently and persuasively. Or: Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., writes intelligently and persuasively.
E. The committee chose Lola Lopez, attorney-at-law, to present their case.
Avoid using “any reasonable person would agree that….” “undoubtedly, certainly, any fool can plainly see, even a five-year-old knows’
Too big better
People typists
Cars compact foreign cars
Sex sex in daytime TV commercials
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