Advantages and Disadvantages of ElectronicDictionary
1. 電子辭典的優(yōu)點
2. 電子辭典的缺點
3. 我的結(jié)論
作文范文：
The discussion about electronic dictionaries hasnever stopped in the past few years. Let's have alook at its advantages and disadvantages beforedrawing the final conclusion.
The biggest advantage of an electronic dictionary is its convenience. Whenever you meetnew words or expressions, you can know the meaning quickly. What's more, with thedevelopment of science and technology, electronic dictionaries are becoming more and moreadvanced: they can pronounce the words clearly, provide sample sentences to illustrate wordusage 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 canafford them.
However, the negative effects are also obvious. To begin with, some students rely toomuch on the electronic dictionary—they never put their heart into learning new words andexpressions. In the second place, some explanations are neither complete nor accurate, whichare quite misleading. Finally, new technical inventions do not necessarily lead to progress inlearning. 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 harmfulin itself. The key lies in the user—so long as we can make proper use of it, it can be mosthelpful to us in many respects.
點評：
首段提出一個長時間爭論的話題;第二段中指出該事物的優(yōu)點;第三段闡述缺點;第四段首句下結(jié)論，表明此事物本身無對錯，第二句指出關(guān)鍵在于使用者，即如果合理使用，就會從中受益。
范文首段指出，有關(guān)電子辭典的討論從來沒有停止過;第二段闡述優(yōu)點，即電子辭典便于查詢，而且隨著技術(shù)的發(fā)展，電子辭典功能也越來越多，另外價錢也越來越低;第三段提出缺點，電子辭典讓學(xué)生產(chǎn)生依賴心理，而且有些解釋不準(zhǔn)確，另外技術(shù)的進步不一定帶來學(xué)習(xí)上的進步;最后一段總結(jié)，電子辭典本身無對錯，關(guān)鍵在于正確使用以便為我們服務(wù)。
第二段第三句中的illustrate表示“用圖或例子來說明”;第三點中的afford表示“買得起”。第三段第一點中的rely too much on表示“過分依賴”;put one's heart into doing sth.表示“專心致志于某事”;第二點中的accurate表示“精確的”，misleading表示“使人誤解的”;第三點第二句中的decisive factor表示“決定因素”。
