提高雅思作文 多练才是王道(2)

　　怎样才算舒服而且有效的阅读呢？
 

　　如果上面这段节选中，只有几个词让你稍微驻足的话，那么你的词汇量已经基本达到了雅思水平，你正在进行comfortable and effective reading. 两段文字中对我们有用的词也不外乎这几个，下一步就是各个击破：

　　我们就以daunting 为例：(取自LDCE)
 

　　对于这个词，你应该了解的是：Daunting: frightening in a way that makes you feel less confident: 令人畏惧的。
 

　　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。