关于阅读的主旨题 - 寄托家园留学论坛

Whether the languages of the ancient American peoples were used for expressing abstract universal concepts can be clearly answered in the case of Nahuatl. Nahuatl, like Greek and German, is a language that allows the formation of extensive compounds. By the combination of radicals or semantic elements, single compound words can express complex conceptual relations, often of an abstract universal character.
The tlamatinime ("those who know") were able to use this rich stock of abstract terms to express the nuances of their thought. They also availed themselves of other forms of expression with metaphorical meaning, some probably original, some derived from Toltec coinages. Of these forms the most characteristic in Nahuatl is the juxtaposition of two words that, because they are synonyms, associated terms, or even contraries, complement each other to evoke one single idea. Used as metaphor, the juxtaposed terms connote specific or essential traits of the being they refer to, introducing a mode of poetry as an almost habitual form of expression.

wsjenglish 发表于 2015-8-7 12:36
这个第一句话应该是一个承上启下的句子，前面应该是还有别的东西。所以我感觉他还不是主旨句。

laahaa 发表于 2015-08-07 16:14

哦，那大概我选定文章不够好。如果确实像一个看似主旨的首句加上个for example，剩下的全篇都在讲这个例子的话呢？那么作者的意图应该是首句还是例子？

wsjenglish 发表于 2015-8-8 02:20
你说的这个情况很常见的。很多东西没法用一句话概括，那种主旨句在学术文章里其实挺少的。我感觉只能是权衡 ...