作为在雅思口语考试中非常高频且常见的考题,以下这些描述的adjectives 你学会了吗？建议大家用小本本记录下来便于后期记忆噢
action movie: film with fast moving scenes, often
containing violence.
e.g. Last week I saw a great action
movie with my brother at our local movie theatre.
bedtime reading: a book you read in your bed before going to sleep.
e.g. I'm really addicted to books! I can't even fall asleep without an hour of bedtime reading.
box office hit: a very successful movie, in terms of money.
e.g.The new movie might be a box office hit, but I didn't like it at all.
e-reader: a gadget for reading books.
e.g.My e-reader broke a few days ago, so now I'll need to fix it or buy a new one.
from cover to cover: from the first page to the last. I am a slow reader so it takes me a lot of time to read a book from cover to cover.
hardcover: a book with hard cover. Opposite to softcover.
e.g.My friend gave me a hardcover book as
a present for my birthday.
page turner: a book which is so good that you cannot stop reading it.
e.g.My sister recommended me a great book. It was such a page turner that I read it in one day!
intricate plot: a very complex, labyrinthine plot. The famous Leo Tolstoy's novel "War and Peace" has a very intricate plot. It tells a story of five different families and comprises of 4 volumes.
subordinate plot(subplot): a plot that is related to, but less important than the main plot of a story.
e.g.The Sun Also Rises tells a love story of a man and a woman. However, the book involves many subordinate plots that raise questions about physical and spiritual affinity, trans-racial relationships and anti-Semitism.
threadbare plot: a simple, primitive plot. The movie's plot was threadbare, but cutely disarming in its own way.
unravelling of the plot: the way in which a story develops over time.
e.g. I first thought Jack London's novel "Martin Eden" to be pretty straightforward. However, the plot unravelled in a very unpredicted way.
