英语四级写作技巧：妙用倒装（3）

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.

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　　Normal: This is more noticeable in Kaohsiung than anywhere else in Taiwan.

　　Emphatic: Nowhere in Taiwan is this so noticeable as in Kaohsiung.

　　Normal: Like most Irishmen, Samuel was quick-tempered.

　　Reversed: Samuel was quick-tempered, as are most Irishmen.

　　Normal: A man lay beside the road, waiting hopelessly for help.

　　Reversed: Waiting hopelessly for help, a man lay beside the road.

　　Plain: In the President’s office, there was a pale, thin, sandy-haired man in his early thirties with the President. He was wearing a rumpled suit and looking completely out of place.

　　Better: In the office with the President was a pale, thin, sandy-haired man in his early thirties, wearing a rumpled suit and looking completely out of place.