听写训练 Test 12 Travel Books

 Travel Books

 

There are three kinds of travel books. / The first are those that give a personal, subjective¹ account of travels / which the author has actually made himself. / If these books are informative² / and have a good index，/ they can be very useful to you / when you are planning your travels. / The second can be classified as selective guidebooks / whose purpose is to give a purely³ objective description of things to be done and seen. / The third are those books which are called “a guide" to some place or other. / They will give an analysis or an interpretation⁴. / They can be as inspiring and entertaining as the first kind，/ but their primary function is to assist the reader / who wishes to plan his tour / in the most practical way. /

1 subjective   

a.主观(上)的，个人的

参考例句：

• The way they interpreted their past was highly subjective. 他们解释其过去的方式太主观。
• A literary critic should not be too subjective in his approach. 文学评论家的看法不应太主观。

2 informative   

adj.提供资料的，增进知识的

参考例句：

• The adverts are not very informative.这些广告并没有包含太多有用信息。
• This intriguing book is both thoughtful and informative.这本引人入胜的书既有思想性又富知识性。

3 purely   

adv.纯粹地，完全地

参考例句：

• I helped him purely and simply out of friendship.我帮他纯粹是出于友情。
• This disproves the theory that children are purely imitative.这证明认为儿童只会单纯地模仿的理论是站不住脚的。

4 interpretation   

n.解释，说明，描述；艺术处理

参考例句：

• His statement admits of one interpretation only.他的话只有一种解释。
• Analysis and interpretation is a very personal thing.分析与说明是个很主观的事情。