FACTSANDFIGURES常用概括圖表信息的詞組和表達(dá)方式上升趨勢toincrease/anincreasetogrow/agrowthtoleap/aleap急速上升tosoar/asoar大幅上升toupswing/anupswing上升togouptojump/ajump急速上升toreachapeak/apeak最高值torise/arisetoupsurge/anupsurge下降趨勢tocollapse/acollapse大幅下降todrop/adroptofall/afalltoreachalowpoint/alowpoint達(dá)到谷底todecline/adecline下降todecrease/adecrease減少togodowntoreduce/areduction降低升降程度較大agreat/bigdealremarkable/remarkably明顯地significant/significantly顯著地apparent/apparentlyconsiderable/considerably相當(dāng)?shù)豥ramatic/dramatically劇烈的drastic/drastically強烈地sudden/suddenly突然地rapid/rapidlymarked/markedly顯著的sharp/sharply大幅的strong/stronglygreat/greatlyquick/quickly升降程度較小abitfractional/fractionally稍許gradual/graduallygentle/gentlyhardlyslight/slightlysteady/steadilyslow/slowly保持平穩(wěn)狀態(tài)tobehardlychanged基本沒變tokeepsteady平穩(wěn)toremainconstant保持不變tohavelittlechange變化很小toleveloff/out/with持平toremainunchanged保持不變Adjectives形容詞Therewasasharpriseinearnings.Earningsmadeagoodrecovery.Salesseemedgoodinthethirdquarter.Salesremainedsteadythisyear.Summary:形容詞用來修飾名詞，通常放在名詞的前面，在be,become,seem,appear,look,feel,remain這些系動詞后面，需要用形容詞來做表語．Adverbs副詞Turnoverincreasedsharplyduring2001.Importsbecameincreasinglyexpensiveduetoastrongpound.Thecompanydidextremelywelllastyear.Ahugerise

Aquick/rapidriseAconsiderable/significant/riseAmodest/moderate/reasonableriseAslight/little/minorriseAgradual/slowrise1hour1yearCompletethesentenceswiththeadverboftheadjectivesinbracketsThenewproductsold(quick)

inPoland.Figuresshowthecompanydidvery(good)

lastyear.Overthelastthreeyearsoursharehaverisen(steady)

.Theresultswerepublishedalittle(late)

thisyear.OurSpanishofficesubmitsitssalesresults(monthly)

.quicklywellsteadilylatemonthlyWhatpercentageofincomecamefromoutsidethecity?Wheredoesthelargestamountofincomecomeform?Onwhatismostoftheincomespent?Howmuchmoreisspentoneducationthanonpoliceprotection?Howmuchmoreaidcomestothecityfromthestatethanfromlocaltaxes?65%StateaidEducation20%5%Asthegraphshows,therewasan

insales.InJanuary,sales.InFebruary,sales

.beforethey

,Therewasa

.thena

toa

of20000inMay.upwardtendencyrosesteadilylevelledoffIncreasedgraduallysuddenfall/sharpfalldramaticincreasepeakSalesfell(slight)

inthesecondquarterfrom179,000unitsto177,000.seasonalsalesfromJuly–Septembermeanta(dramatic)

riseinthethirdquarter,withsalespeakingat200000units.An(extreme)

disappointingfourthquartersawsalesfallto172000,whichwasa(slight)

fallcomparedtothestartoftheyear.However,comparedtolastyear,annualsalesrose(steady)

tofinish8percentup.slightlydramaticextremelyslightsteadilyVerb+by+changeNoun+of+changeAttodescribestaticsituations表示具體的狀態(tài)Intodescribetheareaaffectedbychange/timeperiod表示變化的對象及時間from…..to…..表示變化從什么時候開始到什么時候throughout貫穿，從始至終

InFebruary,salesincreased

$80000.Thefollowingmonth,therewasafurtherincrease

$20000.InApril,theyremainedconstant

$10000.Inthenexttwomonths,theydropped

$40000.Asaresultofthisfall,theywereback

$60000inJune.Thenextthreemonthssawasteadyrise

$120000inSeptember.Thiswasfollowedbyadramaticfall

$40000inOctober.SalesroseinDecembertofinishtheyear

$100000.toofatbyat

totoatfigure數(shù)字，圖表pan-European全歐洲的trend趨勢overtake超過productlaunch向市場投放產(chǎn)品release發(fā)放，發(fā)行affect影響

dominateVdomination統(tǒng)治，控制topbrand/top-sellingbrand暢銷品牌account/accountfor是…的原因Recovery恢復(fù)interactive互相作用的retail零售wholesale批發(fā)ensure保證，擔(dān)保adapt使適應(yīng)詞語和表達(dá)ingeneral總的來說thedemandfor對……的需求toshowsteadyincrease/growthin表現(xiàn)出穩(wěn)步增長的勢頭toturnroundalong-termfallinsales