英国学霸教你英文写作套路

今天介绍的这位是一位英国大学生，在英语写作方面也算的上是一名大神了。

我有幸在quora上看见了她关于写作提升的回答，赶紧翻译了一下分享给大家

一方面是锻炼一下自己的翻译能力，还能学习到写作的技巧。

由于本人水平有限，不足之处欢迎指教。

原标题：How do I improve my writing skills in 20 days?

如何在20天内提高我的写作能力？

I’ve put together 10 simple, actionable tips from my own experience to help you.Practise each day and you will see an improvement.

我从我自己的经验中整理了10个简单的可操作的提示来帮助你。

每天练习，你会看见你的进步。

1.Cutout the adverbs.

I useCtrl+f+ly to spot them. Whilst using a few adverbs will not ruin your writing,too many might. Adverbs tend to be vague and serve often no purpose within thetext. Learning to find other ways of constructing sentences is a quick methodfor upgrading any piece of writing.

1.拿掉副词

我使用Ctrl+f+ly来发现他们。虽然使用副词不太会可能搞砸你的文章。副词倾向于模糊的并且在文章中往往没有任何目的。学会寻找其他的方法来组建句子是一种快速成长的方式。

2.Cutout the abbreviations.

I alwaysuse Ctrl+f+' to do this. Just like adverbs, a few are fine (such as in an informal piece.) Too many can add an amateurish tone or disrupt communication.

2．拿掉缩写

我总是使用Ctrl+f+'来做这件事。就像副词一样，几个是好的（像一些非正式的部分）。太多的话会增加一种业余的感觉并且扰乱了交流。

3.Checkyou are not using the same word too many times.

This is my #1 pet hate in writing and often cause me to not finish reading a book or article. In particular, weak words such as ‘but’, ‘yet’ and ‘though’ tend to be everywhere. Keep track of those which you have a tendency to repeat, then try to avoid them altogether. I useEditMinion to check for duplicates.

3.检查你不要使用同一个单词太多次

这是我的第一个宠儿反感的的书写方式，往往导致我没有完成阅读一本书或者一篇文章。特别是，诸如“但是”，“尚”和“虽然”这样的缺点往往是无处不在的。记录那些你有重复倾向的词语，然后尽量避免它们。我使用EditMinion来检查重复项。

4.If you only read crap, it will be obvious in your writing.

Treatreading as an athlete treats their diet - with care. This doesn’t mean you mustplough through classic novels and academic papers every day, though. I aim tokeep a balancebetween heaviertexts, and those which are relevant to my own work. When a particular person’swriting resonates with me, I like to study it in depth. I note down phrases,analyse techniques and pay attention to structure. Analysis is not just forGCSE English classes.

4.如果你只读废话，它会在你的写作中显现出来。

对待阅读要像运动员对待他们的饮食一样小心。这并不意味着你必须每天都要抄写经典小说和学术论文。我的目标是在大量的文本和与我自己的工作相关的文本之间保持平衡。当某个人的写作与我产生共鸣时，我喜欢更深入的学习它。我记下了短语，分析技术，注意结构。分析不仅适用于GCSE英语课程。

5. Use a thesaurus.

But stop trying to sound smart. Ifyou have ever read anything byTheodor Adorno, then you know how irritating an overgrownvocabulary is. Fancy words and endless synonyms are not needed in everysentence. Putting points across in a succinct, well-thought out manner ispreferable.

5.使用同义词库

停止耍小聪明，如果你曾经读过关于Theodor Adorno的任何书籍，然后你会知道一个过了的词汇多会让人感到不愉快。每句话都不需要花哨的话语和没有头的同义词。以简明扼要，思想清晰的方式提出意见是可取的

6. Learn how to use hyphensand semicolons properly.

These arecrucial for creating the right pace and for making sentences flow. A shortcut to developing hyphen  fluency  (and  general accuracy) is to download   a  free   extension called Grammarly. It flags up any mistakes which most grammarcheckers do not have the sensitivity for.

6.学会如何正确使用连字符和分号。

这些对于创造正确的步伐和使句子流畅至关重要。开发连字符流畅（和一般准确性）的捷径是下载免费的扩展名叫做“语法”。它标记了大多数语法检查器检查不出来的任何错误。

7. Spend AT LEAST twice asmuch time editing as you do writing.

For a 500-word essay, I oftenwrite for just 15 minutes, or half an hour for a 1000 word one. 2-8 hours of meticulous editing then follow. The initial burst of writing produces a rough outline, nothing more. The editing is when I form the desired structure and  tone. Take regular breaks throughout this part to avoid focusing on minutiae.  For example, the outline of this post took me 30 minutes to write, yet the editing and finishing took around 5 hours.

7.在写作时花费最少两倍的时间编辑。

对于一个500字的文章，我经常只用15分钟，或者是一个1000字的用时一个半小时。2-8小时精心编辑然后采用。初始的写作产生一个大致的轮廓，没有更多了。当我形成所需的结构和音调时，编辑就是这样。在这部分定期休息，以避免专注于细节。例如，这篇文章的大纲花了我30分钟的时间，但编辑和整理花费了大约5个小时。

8. Keep paragraphs short andsentences shorter.

Enough said.

8.保持段落和句子都简短一些

说的够多了

9. Build the habit ofwriting every day, without fail.

Add it toyour calendar.I have done so on a consistent basis sinceI was a childanddo not regret a second of it. At times it has swung intoborderline hypergraphia（？）.At one point, I filled a Moleskine notebook every 10 days. Now, I aim to writeat least 500 words for this site per day, in addition to my universityassignments.

9.建立每一天写作的习惯，毫不费力。

将其添加到您的日历，自从我小时候以来，我一直坚持这样做，不要后悔。有时它已经转变为边界超图。有一次，我每10天装一本Moleskine笔记本。现在，除了我的大学任务之外，我还要每天写这个网站至少500个单词。

10. Time yourself.

I keep track of how long I spend on each essay for my site, or for my university work. At the moment, I am aiming to become more efficient. This is a productive practice to get into-both to ensure you are spending a reasonable amount of time it, and to avoid  overworking a particular piece. More than 5 hours per day and I start to get  burnt out, less than 2 and I struggle to keep up with commitments.

10.你自己的时间。

我跟踪我花了多长时间在我的网站的每篇文章，或者是我的大学工作。目前，我的目标是提高效率。这是一个富有成效的做法，既要确保你花费合理的时间，又要避免过度劳累某个特定的部分。每天超过5个小时，我开始变得心急火燎，不到2年，我努力跟上我的承诺。

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