雅思阅读精读urban engineers,今天学习一篇剑桥雅思15的文章:Could urban engineers learn from dance? 这篇文章十分适合关于交通设施类的作文写作,在分析句子的结构,段落结构和短语句型,希望能帮助大家学会如何阅读英语文章。本文以第 一段话作为精读练习部分。
The way we travel around cities has a major impact on whether they are sustainable. (第 一句话的主语是The way, 后面是紧接着一个定语从句,我们穿梭城市的方式,即句子主干部分是The way has a major impact on whether ...,whether 引导的是一句宾语从句,完整的表达为我们穿梭城市的方式对于是否可持续有着重要的影响。)
Transportation is estimated to account for 30% of energy consumption in most of the world's most developed nations, so lowering the need for energy-using vehicles is essential for cities, it is important to think about other kinds of sustainable travel too. (这是一句比较长的复杂句,但是理解起来并不困难,三个分句,句意为:据估计交通占大部分发达国家的30%能源消耗,因此降低能源使用的机动车的需求对城市来说十分关键,考虑其他可持续交通工具也十分重要)
The ways we travel affect our physical and mental health, our social lives, our access to work and culture, and the air we breathe. (我们通勤的方式影响着我们的身心健康、社交生活、工作和文化以及呼吸的空气。)
Engineers are tasked with changing how we travel round cities through urban design, but the engineering industry still works on the assumptions that led to the creation of the energy-consuming transport systems we have now: the emphasis placed solely on efficiency, speed, and quantitative data. (长句是由but连接的转折并列句组成的,冒号的作用一般是进一步说明前句话的具体含义,句意:工程师们肩负着改变城市设计的重任,关于我们如何在城市行进,但是工程行业的任务假设条件导致了我们现有的能源消耗交通系统:即一味地强调效率、速度和大量的数据。)
We need radical changes, to make it healthier, more enjoyable, and less environmentally damaging to travel around cities. (这句话十分适合写作仿写,我们需要彻底的变化,让城市交通变得更加健康、舒适并且产生更少的环境破环。)
be estimated to do sth...被估计做某事;
account for...占...多大的比重
has a major impact on 对于..有重要的影响
physical and mental health 身心健康
access to sth ....的途径
urban design: 城市设计
on the assumption that...假设
solely: 仅...
be tasked with....被安排...任务
radical changes 彻底的变化