《经济学人》是一份非常适合做雅思写作示范的杂志,大家可以上网浏览他们的每期内容,尤其是科技版,其中有不少写作的段落都可以激发我们在流程图写作中的灵感。
在此仅以下面一小段举例:
In a slick of molten gold, dawn breaks and the trees awaken. In every leaf, chlorophyll molecules are seizing the day for photosynthesis. Using sunlight to ship electrons, they split water molecules and combine the resulting hydrogen with carbon dioxide extracted from the air. This produces carbohydrates that the trees turn into sugars, to be burnt off in respiration or, by another chemical process, turned into new plant- matter. The main waste product oxygen, they emit through their stomata in a watery belch. Hence the rainforest’s high level of humidity, visible from the observation tower in diaphanous cloudlets drifting over the canopy. (摘自2010/09/23 Economist——《经济学人》英文版)
文章中大概讲得是光合作用的过程。里面有些复杂些的词汇,但是如果我们把重点从生词上转移到研究作者的写法上面时,会发现除了最开头的写法不适合雅思之外,后面的叙述部分都展现出了严谨而灵活的流程图论述能力。请大家重点看粗体部分,有些用得非常灵活的词汇,比如运输采用“ship”,还有“extracted from the air“(如果我们自己凭空想象,很容易把这里平淡无味地写成“come from the air”)。如果用心体会,做好笔记,就可以在下次自己的流程图写作练习中实践,在反复练习后一定能够取得良好的效果。