英语作文环保

Preserving the Environment

Directions: For this part, you are required to write a composition of about 120 words on the topic: Preserving the Environment. You should base your writing on the following outline (given in Chinese). You can write as many paragraphs as you wish, but you should not omit any part of the outline.

1.人类生存与环境有关；

2.目前环境污染日益严重(略述原因)；

保护环境是我们的重要任务。

【范文】

Preserving the Environment

Environment means the land, water, and atmosphere we live by①. Environment is the earth, the only planet and home for us human race②. No one will doubt that we can ever survive③ while the land, water and atmosphere are seriously polluted.

However, this is the situation we are facing today. Every day, every hour, the air, forests, soil, oceans and fish water are becoming dirtier and dirtier with increasing speed④ and are threatening our existence. There are mainly two causes of⑤ the environmental problems: the excessive use of natural resources and massive discharge of⑥ polluted waste in the course of production.

Preserving the environment is of crucial importance⑦ to mankind today. We must take immediate measures to⑧ fight against⑨ pollution. “Conquering the nature⑩ ” should never be our goal; instead, we should take nature as our closest friend. Preserving the environment is not only preserving our home but the civilization of human community as well11.

【注释】

①live by：靠…过去；以…为生

②human race：相当于人类people in general

③survive：vi/t.:大难不死，幸免于难

④… with increasing speed …：介词with引导短语作为状语，解释谓语动词的行为

⑤excessive use of …：excessive意思是过度；极端…过度使用”

⑥massive discharge of …：大规模排放…

⑦be of crucial importance：系动词be和介词of连用表明某物的性质或属性；crucial意思是决定性和关系重大。所以这句话的意思是，保护环境对今天的人类至关重要。

⑧take immediate measures to：take measures意思是采取措施…”

⑨fight against：与…作斗争

⑩conquering the nature：征服大自然

11as well：同样(是)

【点评】

本文是一篇带有提示的提纲命题作文。提问者要求回答者在规定的时间内用英语围绕提示讨论他对保护环境命题的看法。

在文章的第一段，作者使用了解释法（explanation）环境一词从两个不同的角度定义。我们注意到，这两种解释本身表明人类与环境密切相关。定义后，作者指出，如果环境污染严重，人类将无法生存。这样，提示要表达的观点就更清楚了。第二段第一句话however一个词承上启下，给人一种逻辑清晰、过渡自然的感觉；作为本段的中心句，后半句指出了下一步要讨论的方向。作者从时空两个方面概述了环境污染的现状，然后从过渡开发自然资源和大规模污染物排放两个方面解释了这种现状的原因。作者之所以要从大的方面选择抽象的词来讨论现状和原因，是为了满足提示中略述的需要，二是受英语作文长度的※。这对作者的综合语言表达能力有很高的要求。在第三段中，作者讨论了保护环境的重要性和紧迫性。

全文逻辑清晰，语言表达自然流畅。However一词作为上下转折词，过渡自然，结构严谨。

参考文献:英语作文高分必背系列:大学英语四级写作/李华田主编，武汉大学出版社，2005