极品个人陈述留学文书Personal Statement（PS）大赏【无老师力荐】 来源： 无老师的日志 无老师题：优秀的文章到底该怎么看？简单来说就是比较和总结。何谓比较和总结？举个具体的例子。本文第一句话有这样一个片段：attracting me to the study of African literature through nothing more than a single sentence。直译过来是：他仅用不到一句话就使我深深地迷上了研究非洲文学。想一下如果我们自己写的话，这句话很有可能写成 He just uses one sentence and attracts me to study African literature.如果我们这样写的话，就会发现意境全无。因为 study African literature 是每个人都能写出的内容，但是原文里的study of African literature 将整个表达方法名词化，显得很有学问，就像是你惊讶的时候说：哎呀妈呀！于丹站在身边就会说：呜呼哀哉！这时，我们就都觉得于丹比较有学问，是一个道理。然后nothing more than a single sentence 则是活用了最近比较流行的以否定表肯定的表达方式，比如 I could not agree with you more.直译过来就是“我不能更同意你”，那么意思也就是：“我完全同意你的话”。这里的nothing more than a single sentence，意思就是“他只用了一句话就…….”用的实为精妙！ 上面的无老师的讲解，就是比较和总结。这也是我们提升自己的关键！ This section contains five sample graduate school personal statements: Why Graduate School? Essay Why Qualified? Essay One Why Qualified? Essay Two Why Unique? Essay One Why Unique? Essay Two Why Graduate School? Essay My freshman year at Harvard, I was sitting in a Postcolonial African Literature class when Professor Ngugi wa Thiong’o (the influential Kenyan author) succeeded in attracting me to the study of African literature through nothing more than a single sentence. He argued that, when a civilization adopts reading and writing as the chief form of social communication, it frees itself to forget its own values, because those values no longer have to be part of a lived reality in order to have significance. I wa...
