Advantages and Disadvantages of Electronic Dictionary
1. 电子辞典的优点
2. 电子辞典的缺点
3. 我的结论
【范文】
The discussion about electronic dictionaries has never stopped in the past few years. Let's have a look at its advantages and disadvantages before drawing the final conclusion.
The biggest advantage of an electronic dictionary is its convenience. Whenever you meet new words or expressions, you can know the meaning quickly. What's more, with the development of science and technology, electronic dictionaries are becoming more and more advanced: they can pronounce the words clearly, provide sample sentences to illustrate word usage and store difficult words for special memorization. Last but by no means the least, electronic dictionaries are becoming cheaper and cheaper, and more and more students can afford them.
However, the negative effects are also obvious. To begin with, some students rely too much on the electronic dictionary—they never put their heart into learning new words and expressions. In the second place, some explanations are neither complete nor accurate, which are quite misleading. Finally, new technical inventions do not necessarily lead to progress in learning. Diligence is always the decisive factor, because “there is no royal road to learning”.
Up until now, we can see it clearly that an electronic dictionary is not beneficial or harmful in itself. The key lies in the user—so long as we can make proper use of it, it can be most helpful to us in many respects.
【点评】
首段提出一个长时间争论的话题；第二段中指出该事物的优点；第三段阐述缺点；第四段首句下结论，表明此事物本身无对错，第二句指出关键在于使用者，即如果合理使用，就会从中受益。
范文首段指出，有关电子辞典的讨论从来没有停止过；第二段阐述优点，即电子辞典便于查询，而且随着技术的发展，电子辞典功能也越来越多，另外价钱也越来越低；第三段提出缺点，电子辞典让学生产生依赖心理，而且有些解释不准确，另外技术的进步不一定带来学习上的进步；最后一段总结，电子辞典本身无对错，关键在于正确使用以便为我们服务。
第二段第三句中的illustrate表示“用图或例子来说明”；第三点中的afford表示“买得起”。第三段第一点中的rely too much on表示“过分依赖”；put one's heart into doing sth．表示“专心致志于某事”；第二点中的accurate表示“精确的”，misleading表示“使人误解的”；第三点第二句中的decisive factor表示“决定因素”。
