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Writing Task Two
【A類考試題目】【2012年9月22日】
In some countries, young people are richer, safer and healthier than ever before, however, they are less happy.
What are the reasons and what can be done to deal with the problem?
【題目翻譯】
在有些國家，年輕人跟以前比更加富有，安全感更強，健康狀況更好，但卻沒有以前開心。
導致此問題的原因是什么?該如何解決問題?
【題目關鍵詞】
1. young people
2. richer
3. safer
4. healthier
5. less happy
【寫作小貼士】
此類題目是典型report類文章的寫法，建議四段寫作模式，namely，Paragraph One: Introduction;Paragraph Two: Reason 1+ Reason 2 + Reason 3...;Paragraph Three: Solution 1 +Solution 2 + Solution3...;Paragraph Four: Conclusion。
【新聞背景快搜索】
1-http://www.telegraph.co.uk/lifestyle/7686675/How-to-be-happy.html
【雅思寫作語匯必備/背25句】
1-跟以前比年輕人更容易不開心。
-Young people are more likely to be unhappy than before.
2-煩惱
-to experience worry
3-年輕人處境危險，可患包括已于在內的多種心理疾病。
-Young people are at risk of a range of mental illnesses including depression.
4-某人做某事處境危險
-to put someone in danger of doing something
5-他們的意識形態讓他們倍感壓力和內疚。
-Their ideology increases feelings of stress and guilt.
6-這對身心健康有害。
-It may be detrimental to mental health.
7-加重壓力、抑郁和對生活不滿意的程度
-to increase levels of stress, depression and lower life satisfaction
8-年輕人的快樂主要源于……
-Young people's happiness is derived primarily from...
9-犧牲某人自己的需求轉而滿足他人的需求
-to sacrifice one's own needs for the needs of others
10-對某人的生活滿意
-to be satisfied with one's lives
11-某人對某事的認同態度可以解釋這一切
-It can be totally accounted for by one's endorsement of...attitudes
12-考慮家人支持的程度
-to take into account of the level of family support
13-對年輕人產生了相反的影響
-to have the opposite effect on young people
14-這一現象與孤獨(不愿意與人交流)和缺乏成就感有關。
-The phenomenon is linked with feelings of isolation and a lack of fulfillment.
15-樹立某人的自信心
-build up one's confidence
16-某人的要求過高
-the demands of someone get too taxing
17-在中國對年輕人寄以厚望不是什么新鮮事兒。
-High expectations for young people are nothing new in China.
18-年輕人的壓力越來越大。
-The pressure on young people is increasingly intensifying.
19-不讓孩子輸在起跑線上
-to be eager to provide their kids with a head start
20-巨大的壓力
-the extraordinarily acute pressure
21-努力解決這一難題
-wrestle with the conundrum
22-加大成功的可能性
-to raise the odds of success
23-徹底動搖了某人的信心
-to shake one's confidence to the core
24-社會文化原因可以解釋為什么將重點放在物質進步上。
-There are socio-cultural reasons for the emphasis placed on material advancement.
25-短時間內從貧窮走向富有
-to make the transition from poverty to wealth in less than a generation
26-突然間意識到在浪費生命
-to have a sudden realization: I am in danger of wasting my life
27-工作上一點小挫折，就會讓某人感到沮喪
-to feel dejected after even a minor professional setback
PS:以上內容僅供寫作參考(Just for reference)
