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Hi. Welcome again to engvid.com. I'm Adam.
大家好，歡迎再次來到engvid.com，我是Adam。
Today's lesson, we're looking at IELTS and TOEFL, the writing section,
在今天的課上，我們要來看看雅思和托福考試的寫作部分，
and we're going to look at the five most common mistakes that I see when I'm checking students' essays. Okay?
我們要來講一講我在檢查學生的作文時發現的五個最常見的錯誤。
Now, as usual, for the IELTS and TOEFL lesson, I will speak a little bit more natural speed, a little bit faster than usual.
和往常一樣，講雅思和托福課程時，我會用更自然一些的語速說話，會比平時稍快一些。
If you're a beginner, don't worry, watch the video, listen, practice your listening.
如果你是新手也不要擔心，好好看視頻，用心聽，練習一下你的聽力。
Get the vocabulary you need, it's all... it's good for everybody, but just a little bit harder. Okay?
學一下你需要的詞匯，這......這對每個人都有好處，不過只是稍微有點難度。
So, now, where do I begin? I check a lot of essays. Okay?
那么，我要從哪兒開始講呢？我檢查很多作文。
People send me their essays, I check them, I edit them, I tell them what they're doing wrong,
人們會把他們的作文發給我，我檢查、校訂它們，告訴這些人他們哪里寫錯了，
and I've come to the realization that there are certain mistakes that many, many people make.
然后我意識到，有一些錯誤是很多很多人都會犯的。
So, I want to tell you five of these common mistakes so that you can avoid making them. Okay?
所以，我想告訴你們這些常見錯誤中的五個，這樣你們就能避免犯這些錯誤了。
And the first one, and this is the most common mistake that I see is that you are trying too hard.
第一個，這是我最常看見的錯誤，那就是：用力過猛。
Now, what does this mean?
什么意思呢？
Trying hard is a good thing, right? Yes, it is.
用力是一件好事，對嗎？是的，沒錯。
But you're trying too hard to sound impressive. Okay?
但是你們用力過猛反而無法給人留下深刻印象，知道嗎？
You're trying to impress the graders of these... of these exams, IELTS and TOEFL, you think that by using big words or lots of idioms,
你們想驚艷這些考試......雅思和托福考試的閱卷人，你們以為使用大詞或很多習語，
or very, very long sentences that are very complex and have many clauses that you're getting a higher score.
或者非常復雜的和有很多從句的長句就能得到高分。
In fact, most of the times, you're actually hurting yourselves.
事實上，在大部分情況下，你們實際上在害自己。
Why? Because you're using words incorrectly, you're using them inappropriately,
為什么？因為你們沒有正確使用這些單詞，你們的用法不恰當，
meaning in the wrong context or the wrong usage or in the wrong parts of speech, you're using a verb when you should use a noun, etc.
也就是說你們把這些單詞用在了錯誤的上下文中，或者用法有誤，或者用在了演講稿中錯誤的部分，你們在應該使用一個名詞的地方使用了動詞，等等。
When you write very, very long sentences, quite often, you have run-on sentences,
通常，當你們寫非常非常長的句子時，你們寫的都是流水句，
mean... meaning you have two independent clauses in one sentence, and no punctuation, and no conjunctions, and then the whole sentence falls apart and means nothing.
就是說你們在一個句子里寫了兩個獨立的分句，沒有標點符號，也沒有連接詞，那么這整個句子就會瓦解，沒有任何意義。
