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📚 英语 第 113 课Hedging🌳 高级

Hedging & Distancing

委婉语气与疏离表达

📚 英语高级修辞 / 软化主张模式 📚

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💬 对话

Professor: It appears that the data might be slightly skewed.

教授:数据似乎可能略有偏差。

Student: I suppose we could re-evaluate the methodology.

学生:我想我们可以重新评估一下方法论。

Professor: There tends to be a correlation between these variables.

教授:这些变量之间往往存在相关性。

Student: It seems to me that the results are inconclusive.

学生:在我看来,结果尚无定论。

Professor: I guess one might argue that the sample size is small.

教授:我想有人可能会认为样本量太小。

Student: It would appear that further research is necessary.

学生:看来进一步的研究是必要的。

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📖 词汇

5 个单词
appears似乎/显得
tends to往往/倾向于
suppose猜想/假定
hedging套期保值/委婉限制
skewed有偏差的
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⭐ 核心句型

It + appears/seems + that...

似乎/看来……

  • 句型: [形式主语] + [委婉动词] + [从句]
  • 含义: 用于软化陈述,避免过于绝对或主观的断言。
It appears that the market is cooling down.

市场似乎正在降温。

There tends to be some resistance to change.

对于变革往往会存在一些阻力。

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🎓 语法讲解

在高级英语中,Hedging (委婉语) 是一种重要的修辞手段,用于使主张听起来更客观、更谨慎。

Seems / Appears 用于距离化观察,暗示这只是基于目前迹象的看法。

Tends to 用于描述一般规律,避免说“总是”这样绝对的词。

Might / Could 增加可能性色彩,减少确定性。

It appears that we might be wrong.
= '看来我们可能错了。'

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📝 小测验

哪句话使用了 Hedging 来表达 '他忘了' 比较委婉?