雅思写作攻略：考场上的“兴奋剂”事件(2)

例如：Climbing Everest is a daunting challenge for any mountaineer. Excuses vary from difficulties in obtaining payment to the daunting prospect of completing export documentation.

同义词： challenging demanding taxing exacting

Daunt : to make someone feel afraid or less confident about something: 使…沮丧；使…畏惧

The book is certainly authoritative but may well daunt the uncommitted reader by its relentlessly hard-nosed factuality.

Dauntless: confident and not easily frightened 不屈不挠的；无畏的

It is here that the dauntless cavalrymen of Ellyrion rest when they return from their long sweeps through their embattled land.

如果你能够每两天读一篇ECONOMIST上的文章，对文章中的三个词作上述工作，两个月之后，有惊喜。

高级：read whatever you want as long as you are doing some reading (in English) every day.