2012大学英语四级写作技巧——妙用倒装(三)(1)

英语四级写作技巧:妙用倒装(3)

  (介词短语-谓语-名词)

  Plain: He wasn’t cut out to be a peacetime officer. He wanted glory, he wanted the excitement of war. No one, except possibly himself, has ever doubted his physical courage (or any other kind of courage).

  Interesting: He wasn’t cut out to be a peacetime officer. He wanted glory, he wanted the excitement of war. His physical courage (or any other kind of courage) no one, except possibly himself, has ever doubted.

  Normal: Nobody knows why lands sink under the sea and rise again.

  Reversed: Why lands sink under the sea and rise again nobody knows.

  Normal: I dare not trust her.

  Emphatic: Trust her I dare not.

  Normal: I never thought he would return alive.

  Emphatic: Never did I think he would return alive.

  Loose: History has proved amply that mere numbers may be defeated by smaller forces who are superior in arms, organization, and morale.

  Better: That mere numbers may be defeated by smaller forces who are superior in arms, organization, and morale history has amply proved.

  Plain: I hate taxes and tax collectors equally.

  Interesting: Taxes and tax collectors, I hate equally.