英文Summary写作方法、范例及常用句式

1、摘要是对一篇文章的主题思想的简单陈述。 它用最简洁的语言概括了 原文的主题。写摘要主要包括三个步骤：（1）阅读；（2）写作；（3） 修改成文。第一步：阅读A .认真阅读给定的原文材料。如果一遍不能理解，就多读两遍。阅 读次数越多，你对原文的理解就越深刻。B .给摘要起一个标题。用那些能概括文章主题思想的单词、短语或 短句子作为标题。也可以采用文中的主题句作为标题。 主题句往往出 现在文章的开头或结尾。一个好标题有助于确定文章的中心思想。C. 现在，就该决定原文中哪些部分重要，哪些部分次重要了。对重要部分的主要观点进行概括。D .简要地记下主要观点主题、标题、细节等你认为对概括摘要 重要的东西。

2、第二步：动手写作A. 摘要应该只有原文的三分之一或四分之一长。因此首先数一下原 文的字数，然后除以三，得到一个数字。摘要的字数可以少于这个数 字，但是千万不能超过这个数字。B. 摘要应全部用自己的话完成。不要引用原文的句子。C. 应该遵循原文的逻辑顺序。这样你就不必重新组织观点、事实。D. 摘要必须全面、清晰地表明原文所载的信息，以便你的读者不需 翻阅原文就可以完全掌握材料的原意。E. 写摘要时可以采用下列几种小技巧:1）删除细节。只保留主要观点。2）选择一至两个例子。原文中可能包括5个或更多的例子，你只需从中筛选一至二个例子。3）把长段的描述变成短小、简单的句子。如果材料中描述某人或某事用了

3、十个句子，那么你只要把它们变成一两句即可。4）避免重复。在原文中，为了强调某个主题，可能会重复论证说明。 但是这在摘要中是不能使用的。应该删除那些突出强调的重述句。5）压缩长的句子。如下列两例：“ His courage in battle might without exaggeration be called lielike. ” 可以概括为：” He was very brave in battle.”“ He was hard up for money and was being pressed by his creditor. 可以概括为：“ He was in financial

4、difficulties.”6）你还可以使用词组代替整句或者从句。请看下面的例子：“ Beautiful mountains like Mount Tai, Lusha n Mountain, and Mount Huang, were visited by only a few people in the past. Today, better wages, holidays with pay, new hotels on these mountains, and better tra in and bus services, have brought them with in reach

5、of many who n ever thought of visit ing them ten years ago.”可以概括为：” Beautiful mountains like Mount Tai, once visited by only afew people, are today accessible to many, tha nks to better wages, paid holidays, new hotels and better tran sportati on services.”7）使用概括性的名词代替具体的词，比如：“ She brought home seve

6、ral Chin ese and En glish no vels, a few copies ofTime and Newsweek and some textbooks. She inten ded to read all ofthem duri ng the win ter vocatio n.”可以概括为：” She brought home a lot of books to read during thevocatio n. ”8）使用最短的连接词。比如，可以使用but, then, thus, yet, though,不能使用 at the same time, in the f

7、irst place, because of these, on theother hand等较长的连接词。通常，使用分号就能够达成使用连接词的效果。9）文章中的第一人称说的话通常在摘要中转换成第三人称，从而把大段的对白简化，比如：Kate looked at Paul disappro vin gly: You use too much salt on your food,Paul it ' s not good for you! ” Paul put down his knife andfrowned: ” Why on earth not! If you didn' t

8、have salt on your food it wouldtaste awful like eat ing cardboard or saijulst imagi nebread withoutsalt in it, or potatoes or pasta cooked without salt!” Kate was patiedid n ' t want to quarrel with Paul. She wan ted to persuade him. She saidfirmly:But too much salt is bad for you. It cause high

9、 blood pressure and latter on, heart-attacks. It also disguises the taste of food, the real tasteswhich are much more subtle tha n salt, and which we have lost thesen sitivity to appreciate any more.”可以用第三人称概括为：Kate suggested to Paul that he should eat less salt. She thought that eat ingtoo much sal

10、t would do harm to Paul' s health and that it could reduce thereal tastes of food. But Paul disagreed. He said that food without salt would be tasteless.第三步：修改成文草稿拟好以后，对它进行修改。首先，与原文比较看是否把所有重要 的观点都概括了，摘要中的观点是否与原文中的完全一致。其次，如 果摘要中出现了不必要的词汇、短语或长句子，删除它们。第三，检 查拼写、语法和标点符号的错误。最后，保持语言简单明了。经过上述步骤和方法，一篇摘要就

11、可以完成了。ArticleChildren Must be Taught to Tell Right from WrongWilliam KilpatrickMany of today ' s young people have a difficult time seeing anymoral dimension （道德层面）to their actions. There are a number ofreasons why that ' s true, but none more prominent than a failed system of education that

12、 eschews （回避） teaching children the traditional moral values that bind Americans together as a societyand a culture. That fail ed approach, calledintroduced in schools 25 years ago. It tells children to decide for themselves what is right and what is wrong. It replaced“ characteducation. （品格教育 ）” Ch

13、aracter education didn't ask children toreinvent the moral wheel （ 浪费时间重新发明早已存在的道德标 准 ）; instead, it encouraged them to practice habits of courage, justice and self-control.In the 1940s, when a character education approach prevailed, teachers worried about students chewing gum; today they worry

14、about robbery and rape.Decision-making curriculums pose thorny （ 棘手的 ） ethical dilemmas to students, leaving them with the impression that all morality is problematic and that all questions of right and wrong are in dispute. Youngsters are forced to question values and virtues they ' ve never ac

15、quired in the first place or upon which they have only a tenuous （薄弱的 ） hold. The assumption behind this method is that students will arrive at good moral conclusions if only they are given the chance. But the actual result is moral confusion.For example, a recent national study of 1,700 sixth- to n

16、inth-graders revealed that a majority of boys considered rape to be acceptable under certain conditions. Astoundingly, many of the girls agreed.This kind of moral illiteracy is further encouraged by values-education （价值观教育 ） programs that are little more than courses in self-esteem （自尊）. These progr

17、ams are based on the questionable assumption that a child who feels good about himself or herself won ' t want to do anything wrong. But it is just as reasonable to make an opposite assumption: namely, that a child who has uncritical self- regard will conclude that he or she can' t doanythin

18、g bad.Such naive self-acceptance results in large part from the non-directive （无指导性的 ）, non-judgmental （无是非观的 ）, as-long-as-you-feel-comfortable-with-your-choices mentality （ 思想 ） that has pervaded （渗透） public education for the last two and one-half decades. Many of today' s drug education, sex

19、educationand values-education courses are based on the same 1960s philosophy that helped fuel the explosion in teen drug use and sexual activity in the first place.6 / 19Meanwhile, while educators are still fiddling with （ 胡舌L摆弄）7 / 19# / 19outdatedegofegOod ”approaches, New York, Wash ington, and L

20、os# / 19# / 19An geles are burning. Youn gsters are leav ing school believ ing that matters of right and wrong are always merely subjective. If you pass a stra nger on the street and decide to murder him because you need money if it feels right you go with that feeling. Clearly, murder is not taught

21、 in our schools, but such a con clusi on just about any conclusion can be reached and justified using the decisi on-mak ing method.It is time to con sig n （寄出）the fads （风尚）of “ decisinak ing and“ nojiudgmentalism” to the ash heap of failed policies, andretur n to a proved method. Character educati o

22、n provides a much more realistic approach to moral formatio n. It is built on an understanding that we learn morality not by debating it but by practic ing it.SampleSummary of “ Children Must be Taught to Tell Right from WrongIn his essay Children Must be Taught to Tell Right from Wrong : ”William K

23、ilpatrick argues fervently that the “ decisionmaking ” approach to the moral educati on of America n youth, whichreplacedcharacter educati on25 years ago, has preve ntedjuve niles from behav ing and thinking in accorda nee with the traditi onal moral prin ciples that are fun dame ntal to America n s

24、ociety.According to Kilpatrick, decision-mak ing methods in still in stude nts a wrong belief that all norms of morality are subjective con structs with on ly relative truth in them and therefore can be in terpreted flexibly and even questioned. This belief deprives them of the cha nee to secure sol

25、id moral sta ndards and in duces misc on ceptio ns about what should be clearly right or wrong.approachIn parallel with th is in adequacy of theare the un expected outcomes of those values-educatio n programs focusing on students-esteem that subscribe to the“ no gudgme ntal ” min dset dominating“nda

26、kisg)ncurriculums. Their mistaken assumption that feeling good warrants morality excuses students from criticizing and disciplining their own behaviors.8 / 19the decisi on-mak ing approach, Kilpatrick fin ally proposes an immediate shift back to character educati on which he believes teaches moralit

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34、eviews.39) The writer of this paper discusses.40) The writer of this essay tries to explore.41) The aim of this paper is to determine.42) The purpose of this article is to review.43) The objective of this paper is to explore. 破题用语，一般有： The author of this article reviews (or: discusses, describes, su

35、mmarizes, examines) something This article reviews (or:reports,tells of,is about,concerns)something This article has been prepared (or:designed,written) The purpose of this article is to determine something The problem of something is discussed 结论和建议，一般有以下几种写法： The author suggests (recommends,conclu

36、des)that This article shows that It is suggested that The author's suggestion (or:conclusion )is that The author finds it necessary to Useful Transitions and Transitional PhrasesIntroduction to a Topicas for, concerning, with regard to, with respectto, in terms ofToSummarizein all, in a word, in

37、 brief, briefly, in other words, in short, in summary, that is, finally, generally, in conclusion, on the whole, therefore, to sum up, to conclude, and so, this shows, thus we seeTo Compareby comparison, here again, in the same way, in a similar manner, likewise, similarly, so too, as, also, equally

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44、 of, it is true that, nevertheless, obviously, of course, still, to be sureLocationabove, below, beyond, farther, further, here, nearby, opposite, there, to tIn the distant past, many people thought bats had magicalpowers, but times have changed. Today, many people believe that bats are rodents, tha

45、t they cannot see, and that they are more likely than other animals to carry rabies. All of these beliefs are mistaken. Bats are not rodents, are not blind, and are no more likely than dogs and cats to transmit rabies. Bats, in fact, are among the least understood and least appreciated of animals.Ba

46、ts are not rodents with wings, contrary to popular belief. Like all rodents, bats are mammals, but they have a skeleton similar to the human skeleton. The bones in bat wings are much like those in arms and the human hand, with a thumb and four fingers. In bats, the bones of the arms and the four fin

47、gers of the hands are very long. This bone structure helps support the web of skin that stretches from the body to the ends of the fingers to form wings.Although bats cannot see colors, they have good vision in both dim and bright light. Since most bats stay in darkness during the day and do their f

48、eeding at night, they do not use their vision to maneuver in the dark but use a process called echolocation. This process enables bats to emit sounds from their mouths that bounce off objects and allow them to avoid the objects when flying. They use this system to locate flying insects to feed on as

49、 well. Typically, insect-eating bats emerge at dusk and fly to streams or ponds where they feed.They catch the insects on their wingtip or tail membrane and fling them into their mouths while flying.There are about 1,000 species of bat, ranging in size from the bumblebee bat, which is about an inch long, to the flying fox, which is sixteen inches long and has a wingspan of five feet. Each type of bat has a specialized diet. For seventy percent of bats, the diet is insects. Other types of bats feed on flowers