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SAT閱讀考試一直是中國(guó)考生的弱項(xiàng)部分,但如果大家能突破SAT閱讀難詞這一關(guān),SAT閱讀備考的成績(jī)就會(huì)有一個(gè)大的飛躍,獲得理想的成績(jī)。
Understatement的意思是:a statement that is not strong enough to express facts or feelings with full force(語(yǔ)氣不夠強(qiáng),不足以表達(dá)事實(shí)或感情的陳述)。A Dictionary of Literary Terms 所給的解釋是:A figure of speech which contains an understatement of emphasis, and therore the opposite of hyper. Often used in everyday speech and usually with laconic or ironic intentions.也就說(shuō),這種修辭格式故意使用有節(jié)制的修辭來(lái)陳述事實(shí),故意清描淡寫(xiě),借低調(diào)與弱化語(yǔ)言形式來(lái)表示強(qiáng)調(diào)。所以Understatement故意采取“低調(diào)”,化大為小,是deliberately minimize the importance 和play down。一般說(shuō)來(lái),英語(yǔ)Understatement并無(wú)固定格式,通常可以通過(guò)詞典和語(yǔ)法手段體現(xiàn)。
1、用詞匯手段來(lái)體現(xiàn)。
According to the newspaper, the driver, who was returning from a wedding, seemed puzzled. “I only had two bottle of beer and a cocktail.”
據(jù)報(bào)道,那位參加完一個(gè)婚禮后往回趕的司機(jī)一臉迷惑地說(shuō):“我只不過(guò)喝了兩瓶啤酒,一杯雞尾酒罷了?!?/p>
此句話中的seemd puzzled 以及only 把酒后駕車(chē)司機(jī)的那種不負(fù)責(zé)任的態(tài)度刻畫(huà)的淋漓盡致,令人厭惡。
2、用語(yǔ)法手段來(lái)體現(xiàn)。
“ Don’t you figure out that I might have had something to do with it?” said Soapy, not without sarcasm, but friendly, as one greets good fortune.
(O.Henry: The Cop and the Anthem)
“難道你看不出我可能跟這件事有關(guān)嗎?” 蘇比說(shuō),口氣不是沒(méi)有譏諷,但態(tài)度卻友好,仿佛一個(gè)要交好運(yùn)的人。
此例是以雙重否定體現(xiàn)understatement, not without sarcasm 就是with sarcasm(語(yǔ)帶譏諷)。
簡(jiǎn)而言之,understatement(低調(diào)陳述)的要點(diǎn)就是清描淡寫(xiě)地陳述一種想法。
真題(2006年1月sec9):
Questions 7-19 are based on the following passage.
The following passage is from a 1979 essay by a Native American writer.
Bore she had finished her sentence the beaver had flipped over in the water and dragged himself onto the bank, where he lay half dead. The porcupine woman managed to make the shore too. and climbed up onto a bear path. When she had caught her breath, she turned on the beaver and quilled him to death.“The Tanaina live in an environment that could euphe-mistically be described as “difficult.” Survival, especially in the wild, is always precarious. Further, they were, in the prccontact period, a nonlitcrate people.
11、The sentence in which “difficult” appears (lines 54-55) indicates that the author considers the word to be
(A) an exaggeration
(B) an estimate
(C) an understatement
(D) a contradiction
(E) a preconception
題干分析:作者認(rèn)為54-55行所描述的“困難”一詞是什么。有原文分析可知:T所在的環(huán)境可以被委婉的描述成“困難”。并且聯(lián)系下文Survival, especially in the wild, is always precarious.(特別是在荒野之地,生存下來(lái)不可能的。)由此判斷這里明顯非常困難,而原文委婉說(shuō)困難。此句中情態(tài)動(dòng)詞的表達(dá)could euphe-mistically be 體現(xiàn)了understatement的運(yùn)用。
此題并不是一個(gè)修辭題的考題,但是考點(diǎn)涉及到修辭中understatement的運(yùn)用。
修辭手法題很容易和其他的題型(例如寫(xiě)作手法題)混在一塊考。這也是為什么有些題干會(huì)明顯有rhetorical device 的提示詞,如真題2009年1月的題目:the quotation in lines 10-12 contains an example of which rhetorical device ? 而有的題干沒(méi)有rhetorical device 的提示詞,但是選項(xiàng)中又有修辭格。如真題2009年1月的題目:In lines 9-11( “A miniseries ….television.”) , the author makes use of which of the following? 其實(shí)那是因?yàn)檫x項(xiàng)中涉及部分的修辭手法,還涉及部分的寫(xiě)作手法。寫(xiě)作手法的講解會(huì)在該題型講解中詳述。在這里就不多講了。
希望澳際小編整理的SAT閱讀考試低調(diào)陳述修辭手法應(yīng)用介紹對(duì)各位考生有所幫助,包括了Understatement的含義以及體現(xiàn)形式,后面還附有真題解析,大家可以根據(jù)自己的復(fù)習(xí)情況來(lái)選擇借鑒,在SAT閱讀考試的備考中進(jìn)行應(yīng)用。
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