这一招教会你破解“个人经历”开头

  许多材料文follow一个套路：作者一上来就跟你讲述ta的经历。

  比起平白僵硬的陈述，个人经历有“故事感”，更生动。

  如果读者有过类似的经历，就会产生共鸣。

  那么，文章的作者有套路，我们的破解与分析也有拆解的固定路数。

  我们以Let There Be Dark一文(可见于新航道《SAT写作官方题库与范文》)为例，迅速破解一下对于“讲述个人经历”这一类开头的分析。

  文中，作者提及自己童年时代见过的“黑暗”，刺激读者回忆自己童年时代见过的“黑暗”，从而在一开始就获得了读者的认同感。

  The essay starts with the author’s memory of his childhood when there was darkness. The experience of having darkness may be a shared experience between the author and the readers. Readers therefore are able to relate to the author’s idea, and this connection, the resonance, is the immediate success of the essay.

  当然，作者的这个开头还有一个目的(当然，这不是我们今天学习的主要内容，不过还是给大家呈现一下)：曾经的童年见过的“黑暗”与如今孩子只能看到的“光明”形成对比和反差，从而产生遗憾感。这种遗憾是对于丧失黑暗的遗憾，于是暗示了“需要黑暗，想要黑暗”这个主题。

  Meanwhile, the author’s depiction of his childhood plays another important role in the beginning of the essay: the past childhood, when the author and many readers were children, contrasts sharply with today’s childhood, and the contrast, in a subtle and implicit way, provokes a feeling of pity about the loss of the darkness.

  回到我们的主题：用“讲述个人经历”来开头。在新航道《SAT写作官方题库与范文》一书里，我们还可以找到另一篇同样的开头模式，这一篇是2016年5月的北美考区的考题：Viewpoint: Air-Conditioning Will Be the End of Us.

  As the essay just starts to unfold, the author tells nothing but his recent experience of receiving a reminder from the utility provider. If receiving the message is a shared experience between the author and the readers, which is likely to be the case, the readers are able to relate to the author’s idea. Apparently, this connection is the immediate success of the essay as it as soon as the essay starts draws the readers’ attention and captures their interest.

  大同小异的分析结构和模型，就可以把类似的开头拆解了。每次学会一点点，特殊年份，考试还早，每次“跬步”学一些，聚沙成塔，来日已行千里。