一) 百分比句式转换

* 以“60个学生中，有6个人喜欢音乐”为例。

1） 数据置前

1. 10 % of students like music.

2. There are 10 % of students who love music.

2） 数据置后

3. The percentage/ proportion of the students who love music is 10 %.

4. Students who like music take up 10 % of the total.

二) 数据形式转换

1. 10 % of students like music. (百分数)

2. 6 out of the 60 students like music. (数字)

3. A tenth of the students like music. (分数)

4. Only a few students like music. (概数)

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友情提示 很多情况下，百分比句式的变化还需要对句意进行灵活的表达来实现。

* 饼图例 (Primary Source of Information for College Students)

试用多种句式改写：

Newspapers were the primary source of information for 21% of the students.

(请关注以下各句中以黑体字标出的“词 à 词”及“词 à 表达”的同义替换。)

1. Newspapers were the major source of information for 21% of the students.

2. 21% of students got most of their information from newspapers.

3. 21% of students read newspapers to get most of their information.

4. For 21% of the students, most of the information came from newspapers.

5. For 21% of the students, reading newspapers was the major way to get information.

三) 排序表达

1）最机械的模板 (三个最大值+三个最小值)

According to the chart/ table, it is obvious that the biggest part was A, which accounted for m % of all.

B was the next largest proportion with n %, followed by C (x %).

The above three items took up about a % (前三大值的总和) of the total.

By contrast, D, E, F made up a small percentage of the total, which were p %, q % and r % respectively.

2）原创句式

l 最大值

1. A ranked first, which accounted for m %.

2. A was the leading + n., accounting for m %.

3. A covered the largest/ biggest share with m %.

l 第二、第三大值

1. Next came B with n %, which was followed by C (x % ).

2. B came next with n %, followed by C (x %).

l 中间值

1. D and E were/ lay in the middle with p % and q % respectively.

l 最小值

1. X lay last with n %.

2. X had the smallest share which accounted for n %.

3. The remaining (剩下的) n % went to X.

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友情提示 请特别关注在以上排序句式中“嵌入百分比数据”的方法。

1. ..., which accounted for m %

2. ..., accounting for m %

3. with m%