今年的雅思新题中有这样的一个part two的题目:
“Describe a piece of technology you own that you feel is difficult to use
You should say
When you got it
What you got it for
How often you use it
And explain how you feel about it”
很多同学看到这个题目估计都会觉得很一头雾水,确实这个题目好像自己本身就很有bug:我们日常生活当中能有什么我们自己都觉得很难使用的物品呢?
其实有的时候大家要学会去发掘我们生活当中很多可描述的东西,我们现在就身处在一个科技的时代,我们周边的电子产品太丰富,所以很多东西都可以是我们在这个题目当中可以描述的一个对象,甚至我们也可以说手机是一个我们觉得很难使用的一个科技产品。
因为题目当中的这个 “difficult”并没有一个很明确的定义,不一定非得是非常高科技的产品才能算是一个很难用的科技产品,如果我们觉得手机有些功能很难用的话,也是可以算作这个题目的素材,比如我们可以这样讲:
“I would say the piece of equipment that is really difficult to use is my smartphone, it is undeniable that smart phones do possess the functions that can convenient our life to a great extent. For instance, it made wallets redundant, since the function of mobile payment can handle every transaction made in daily life, my own phone also brought benefits into my life, but sometimes it can also get on my nerves and even agitate me.
I got my current cell phone about three years ago, since my parents and I both agreed on the fact that a smart phone is becoming an essential in our daily life, therefore they just purchased the latest model of iPhone for me, which was, I would say, state-of-the-art at that time. But after being used for such a long time, it began to show some wear-and-tear, some scratches started to appear on the phones, and the phone became slow to respond to my requests, it just added to the level of inconvenience in using it, but the thing that really irritated me was the assorted apps. Right now, we need to download so many apps in our life, like apps of our banks, and the apps of our social media, each of which required us to have an account.This just made my life so much harder, since I really had a hard time memorizing so many account details, and how to operate each app seemed really puzzling to me, the multitudinous apps just placed so many unfortunate limits on our life.
I would say it can be irritating that some many apps are rather complicated, but I guess I have to deal with this reality since the modern life will only see an increasing level of complexity.”
“我想说真正难以使用的设备是我的智能手机,不可否认,智能手机确实具有在很大程度上方便我们生活的功能。例如,它使钱包变得不在必要,因为移动支付功能可以处理日常生活中的每一笔交易,我自己的手机也给我的生活带来了好处,但有时它也会让我着急甚至愤怒。
大约三年前,我拿到了现在的手机,因为我和父母都认为智能手机正在成为我们日常生活中的必需品,因此他们刚刚为我购买了最新型号的iPhone,我可以说,这在当时是最先进的。但在使用了这么长时间之后,它开始出现一些磨损,手机上开始出现一些划痕,手机对我的请求的响应变得缓慢,这增加了使用它的不便程度,但真正让我恼火的是各种各样的应用程序。现在,我们需要在生活中下载这么多的应用程序,比如银行的应用程序和社交媒体的应用程序。这让我的生活变得更加艰难,因为我真的很难记住这么多账户细节,而且如何操作每个应用程序对我来说似乎真的很困惑,众多的应用程序给我们的生活带来了许多的限制。
我想说,有些应用程序相当复杂,这可能会令人恼火,但我想我必须应对这一现实,因为现代生活的复杂性只会越来越高。”
译文
生词
Redundant adj. 多余的
Get on my nerves让我恼火
Agitate v. 让我愤怒
State-of-the-artadj. 最先进的
Assorted adj. 各式各样的
Multitudinous adj. 各式各样的,众多的
这个答案就向我们展示了手机其实也可以是一个我们认为很难使用的科技产品,所以大家一定不必觉得既然我们要描述难使用的科技产品一定得是高科技这样,我们日常的很多电子产品估计都会有让我们觉得很难用的时刻,大家之后面对其他觉得很没有头绪的问题的时候也可以尝试着去发掘我们生活当中的素材。
看完老师的分享之后大家对于新题目有没有一点新思路呀!遇到一头雾水的题不用慌,往自己熟悉的方面思考说不定就有想法啦!