Excessive or Overused 限定符
Avoid excessive or overused qualifiers. Try to eliminate as many adverbs as you can, especially ones that modify whole sentences.
"Hopefully, we'll go to the dance."
Does this mean "We hope we'll go to the dance" or "We'll go to the dance in a hopeful frame of mind?" Overuse of adverbs lends a gee-whiz quality to the prose. 这是一个 list of some adjectives and adverbs that are used so often their meaning has been 稀释:
- 完全
- 基本上
- 实际上
- 极
- 真的
- incredibly, incredible
- 太棒了
- 令人惊异的
- 荒谬的
- 简单的
- 非常
- 相当
- 独特的
Look them up if you're tempted to use them, and make sure they say what you mean them 说.
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