英語四級寫作技巧:妙用倒裝

(介詞短語-謂語-名詞)

Plain: He wasn’t cut out to be a peacetime officer. He wanted glory, he wanted the excitement of war. No one, except possibly himself, has ever doubted his physical courage (or any other kind of courage).

Interesting: He wasn’t cut out to be a peacetime officer. He wanted glory, he wanted the excitement of war. His physical courage (or any other kind of courage) no one, except possibly himself, has ever doubted.

Normal: Nobody knows why lands sink under the sea and rise again.

Reversed: Why lands sink under the sea and rise again nobody knows.

Normal: I dare not trust her.

Emphatic: Trust her I dare not.

Normal: I never thought he would return alive.

Emphatic: Never did I think he would return alive.

Loose: History has proved amply that mere numbers may be defeated by smaller forces who are superior in arms, organization, and morale.

Better: That mere numbers may be defeated by smaller forces who are superior in arms, organization, and morale history has amply proved.

Plain: I hate taxes and tax collectors equally.

Interesting: Taxes and tax collectors, I hate equally.

(賓語- 主語- 謂語)

Normal: This is more noticeable in Kaohsiung than anywhere else in Taiwan.

Emphatic: Nowhere in Taiwan is this so noticeable as in Kaohsiung.

Normal: Like most Irishmen, Samuel was quick-tempered.

Reversed: Samuel was quick-tempered, as are most Irishmen.

Normal: A man lay beside the road, waiting hopelessly for help.

Reversed: Waiting hopelessly for help, a man lay beside the road.

Plain: In the President’s office, there was a pale, thin, sandy-haired man in his early thirties with the President. He was wearing a rumpled suit and looking completely out of place.

Better: In the office with the President was a pale, thin, sandy-haired man in his early thirties, wearing a rumpled suit and looking completely out of place.