三、“無詞閱讀”的巔峰境界
何謂“境界”?
“境界”,就是能看多遠。佛能夠看透物質世界,所以佛的境界無限遠。
閱讀的時候,如果誰能夠透過那些生詞和難句,把題目的答案直接挑出來,并且文章大致講什么還能明白,那么就達到了“無詞閱讀”的最高境界,才能感到“心曠神怡,寵辱皆忘,把酒臨風,其喜洋洋者矣”!
字逐句搞翻譯,段落文章看不懂”錯誤閱讀方法,保證讀者在存在大量生詞的情況下,還能夠通過快速閱讀掌握段落和文章的主旨。
那么“無詞閱讀法”的精髓在哪里呢?就在于把握兩種東西:方向和關系。
首先,方向是作者在論述一個事物時的基本態度,其重要性遠遠大于個別詞句的理解。例如:
Research studies lend strong support to the argumentthat there are benefits for families considering a change to a fairer or more equitable division of the pleasures and pains of family life. Greater equality in the performance of family work is associatedwith lower levels of family stress and higher self-esteem, better health, and higher marital satisfaction for mothers. There is also higher marital satisfaction for fathers, especially when they take more responsibilityfor the needs of their children – fathers are happier when they are more involved (Russell 1984).
這段話并不長,但是如果讓你在30秒鐘之內說出主旨是什么,恐怕比登天還難吧!其實不然!請看首句中有一個詞benefits是個正向詞,緊接著第二句話中lower levels of family stress, higher…, better health, higher… satisfaction等都是正向詞。第三句話中higher satisfaction, happier等也都是正向詞。這說明這段話作者的基本態度是正向的,那么段落主旨就是首句中的benefits,而第二和第三句話就在具體論述有哪些 benefits。至于self-esteem, marital等生詞不認識都無所謂了,因為本段落中,除了這些正向詞之外,其余的單詞的存在都是多余的。30秒足夠你“頓悟”了吧!
其次,關系是更為重要的,因為它的存在更加使得單詞變得多余。例如:
In business as a whole, there are a number of factors encouraging the prospect of greater equality in the workforce. Demographictrends suggest that the number of women going into employment is steadily increasing. In addition a far greater number of women are now passing through higher education, making them better qualified to move into management positions.
這段話中,首句a number of factors encouraging…是一個正向詞,說明在分析好的因素。第二句number…increasing和第三句higher education, better qualified都是正向詞,說明在具體論述第一句話中的好的因素。但是,二三句之間的一個In addition讓我們知道了這兩句話之間是一個“遞進”關系,那么其前后的方向應該是相同的。所以,當我們看完第二句話之后,發現這個“遞進”關系時,后面的內容根本不需要看了。至于prospect和demographic trends即使都是你的生詞,又怎能妨礙你抓住段落的主旨——a number of factors呢?
以上就是新東方網雅思頻道為大家整理的雅思閱讀神化境界:無詞勝有詞,非常實用,最后,新東方網雅思頻道預祝大家在雅思考試中取得好成績!