难道你看不出我可能跟这件事有关吗? 苏比说,口气不是没有讥讽,但态度却友好,仿佛一个要交好运的人。
此例是以双重否定体现understatement, not without sarcasm 就是with sarcasm。
简而言之,understatement的要点就是清描淡写地陈述一种想法。
真题
Questions 7-19 are based on the following passage.
The following passage is from a 1979 essay by a Native American writer.
Before she had finished her sentence the beaver had flipped over in the water and dragged himself onto the bank, where he lay half dead. The porcupine woman managed to make the shore too. and climbed up onto a bear path. When she had caught her breath, she turned on the beaver and quilled him to death.The Tanaina live in an environment that could euphe-mistically be described as difficult. Survival, especially in the wild, is always precarious. Further, they were, in the prccontact period, a nonlitcrate people.
11. The sentence in which difficult appears indicates that the author considers the word to be
an exaggeration
an estimate
an understatement
a contradiction
a preconception
题干分析:作者认为54-55行所描述的困难一词是什么。有原文分析可知:T所在的环境可以被委婉的描述成困难。并且联系下文Survival, especially in the wild, is always precarious.由此判断这里明显非常困难,而原文委婉说困难。此句中情态动词的表达could euphe-mistically be 体现了understatement的运用。
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