GRE写作素材库

 　　1、超越性的题目：现实与理想;眼前利益与长期利益;集体身份与人格独立;规约与自由，利己与利他、竞争与合作、客观束缚与主观能动人类之所以纠结，在于沉重的肉身和高傲的灵魂之间不可调和的矛盾。人若是卑微，总是世俗的纷扰让我们难以自拔;人若是高尚，只是因为心中的理想。我们是魔鬼的孩子，却长着天使的翅膀。

　　A man suffers from inescapable pain, a torturing split between the sunken flesh and the arrogant¹ soul. So sunken the flesh is that a man indulges himself into lust², sloth³, greed and hatred⁴, so arrogant the soul is that he never abandons his rights of morality, religion, passion and freedom. A man is never a demon⁵, nor is he an angel。

　　2、虚无性的题目：知识、科技、实践、经验、批判思维、历史的真伪、文化存在的本质为人对所存在事物的感知，故而世界的本质便是虚无。

　　The existence only exists in people's perception, which, by nature, is of vanity。

　　3、时间性题目：传统与创新、历史是否可以被借鉴、科技与人文、进步、时间对于个体来说是线性而不可逆转的;而对于整个宇宙，无非是一个周而复始的圆圈。

　　Time for individuals is consecutive⁶ and irreversible, but for the universe, just a repetitive circle。

　　4、政府与人民

　　人民除了权利，什么都没有，甚至没有使用权利的基本能力。因而他们选举了一个叫做政府的机构。

　　Citizens, apart from claiming to have rights, in fact, have no capability⁷ to exercise their rights. Therefore, they select a government。

　　5、个体与集体、身份、领导者与大众

　　他人给了你身份，故而，他们就是你的地狱。

　　Others bestow⁸ you an identity, and thus, they are the hell。

　　6、政治与道德

　　政治是权力的斗争和利益的平衡。民主只是用制度制约人性的本恶。

　　Nothing is politics but the struggle of power and the balance of interests。

　　7、教育、传统与创新、批判思考

　　教育用束缚的方式，启迪了人们如何通过继承而达到颠覆的目的。

　　Education, by means of confinement⁹, enlightens people to inherit and then to overthrow¹⁰ the past。

　　8、人民与政府

　　政府是必要的恶。以自由为代价，确保了正义和公平。

　　Government is a necessary evil, ensuring the justice but at the cost of individual freedom。

　　9、领导、名人、英雄、信仰

　　人需要神从而不至迷茫;人需要颠覆神，因为神本身就是人造的产物。

　　By the guidance of idols¹¹, people are not perplexed¹²; yet, they always destroy the idols and replace them with new ones, for idols are created to be destroyed。

　　10、科技与自然、革命与改革、领导与大众、理想与现实、主观与客观、勇气与卑微人与外在世界永远处于斗争之中，只不过一些人为了苟活妥协了;而另一些人为了信仰反抗了。妥协的人不一定活下来了;反抗的人也未必真的牺牲了。甚至，妥协的人未必不是英雄;而反抗的人也不是注定不朽。总之，世界不曾改变，改变的只是你我。

　　Human beings are always in a fight with external world. Some have compromised, and some still persist. The compromised are not blessed to live; and the persisted, not necessarily martyrs¹³. Or even, the compromised are indeed heroes, and the persisted, fading away. The world does not change. We do。

　　以上就是针对GRE考试中十个不同的话题整理的写作素材，考生们可以作为参考进行阅读掌握，在GRE考试中适当灵活运用，为自己的文章增添色彩。

 

1 arrogant   

adj.傲慢的，自大的

参考例句：

• You've got to get rid of your arrogant ways.你这骄傲劲儿得好好改改。
• People are waking up that he is arrogant.人们开始认识到他很傲慢。

2 lust   

n.性(淫)欲；渴(欲)望；vi.对…有强烈的欲望

参考例句：

• He was filled with lust for power.他内心充满了对权力的渴望。
• Sensing the explorer's lust for gold, the chief wisely presented gold ornaments as gifts.酋长觉察出探险者们垂涎黄金的欲念，就聪明地把金饰品作为礼物赠送给他们。

3 sloth   

n.[动]树懒；懒惰，懒散

参考例句：

• Absence of competition makes for sloth.没有竞争会导致懒惰。
• The sloth spends most of its time hanging upside down from the branches.大部分时间里树懒都是倒挂在树枝上。

4 hatred   

n.憎恶，憎恨，仇恨

参考例句：

• He looked at me with hatred in his eyes.他以憎恨的眼光望着我。
• The old man was seized with burning hatred for the fascists.老人对法西斯主义者充满了仇恨。

5 demon   

n.魔鬼，恶魔

参考例句：

• The demon of greed ruined the miser's happiness.贪得无厌的恶习毁掉了那个守财奴的幸福。
• He has been possessed by the demon of disease for years.他多年来病魔缠身。

6 consecutive   

adj.连续的，联贯的，始终一贯的

参考例句：

• It has rained for four consecutive days.已连续下了四天雨。
• The policy of our Party is consecutive.我党的政策始终如一。

7 capability   

n.能力；才能；(pl)可发展的能力或特性等

参考例句：

• She has the capability to become a very fine actress.她有潜力成为杰出演员。
• Organizing a whole department is beyond his capability.组织整个部门是他能力以外的事。

8 bestow   

v.把…赠与，把…授予；花费

参考例句：

• He wished to bestow great honors upon the hero.他希望将那些伟大的荣誉授予这位英雄。
• What great inspiration wiII you bestow on me?你有什么伟大的灵感能馈赠给我？

9 confinement   

n.幽禁，拘留，监禁；分娩；限制，局限

参考例句：

• He spent eleven years in solitary confinement.他度过了11年的单独监禁。
• The date for my wife's confinement was approaching closer and closer.妻子分娩的日子越来越近了。

10 overthrow   

v.推翻，打倒，颠覆；n.推翻，瓦解，颠覆

参考例句：

• After the overthrow of the government,the country was in chaos.政府被推翻后，这个国家处于混乱中。
• The overthrow of his plans left him much discouraged.他的计划的失败使得他很气馁。

11 idols   

偶像( idol的名词复数 )； 受崇拜的人或物； 受到热爱和崇拜的人或物； 神像

参考例句：

• The genii will give evidence against those who have worshipped idols. 魔怪将提供证据来反对那些崇拜偶像的人。 来自英汉非文学 - 文明史
• Teenagers are very sequacious and they often emulate the behavior of their idols. 青少年非常盲从，经常模仿他们的偶像的行为。

12 perplexed   

adj.不知所措的

参考例句：

• The farmer felt the cow,went away,returned,sorely perplexed,always afraid of being cheated.那农民摸摸那头牛，走了又回来，犹豫不决，总怕上当受骗。
• The child was perplexed by the intricate plot of the story.这孩子被那头绪纷繁的故事弄得迷惑不解。

13 martyrs   

n.martyr的复数形式；烈士( martyr的名词复数 )；殉道者；殉教者；乞怜者（向人诉苦以博取同情）

参考例句：

• the early Christian martyrs 早期基督教殉道者
• They paid their respects to the revolutionary martyrs. 他们向革命烈士致哀。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》