托福写作镇魂句，是你做写作题目的强心剂！
下定义，在我们的托福写作中是一个格外好用的“出字”技巧，特别是对于看到作文题目后一筹莫展、不知从何写起的同学，又或是每次都徘徊在独立300字数线的盆友。
如果你能够记下几个（独立作文题目涉及的）常用主题概念的定义，考试时只要能够用到某个已经背下来了的定义句，哗啦哗啦几下打出来，看到屏幕上的一两行、三四行文字，自然心里就踏实了许多。所以，这样直接拉出来可以用的句子就被称为“镇魂句”了。
今天，太谱君为大家整理了部分托福独立题目常涉及到的概念，并根据难易程度给出的定义，同学们都可以背下来在托福写作考试中用来“镇魂”。
在托福独立写作的“下定义”这个技巧，其实不论是开头，还是主体段落都可以使出这招，如果用的得当，那效果还是很赞的，同时还能用来有效填充文章内容，增加有效字数。
在整理以下定义时，采取的是“用户友好型”：常用、好懂、好记、难易适中。这些定义句的整理参考了英文词典、百科等资料的解释作为参考，同时删去了许多太过于技术化和学术化的描述，进行了必要的调整以及改写之。还有些比较难找到的“接地气”或“托福化”解释的定义句，就只好自己动手、丰衣足食地“创造”了。
往下看就是定义句的目录，红色的部分就是这些常用概念名词（如“科技、Technology” ），后面的句子就是我们用来“镇魂”的常用概念定义。每一个定义句后，还有这句或许可以采用的独立作文题目例子，它们都来源于近期托福机经，极其具有实用性。
“科技”定义：
Technology is the activity or study of using scientific knowledge for practical purposes in industry, farming, medicine, business, etc.
可能采用的句子：
Technology designed to make our life simpler actually makes our life more complicated.
“电话”定义：
The telephone is a technology of communication that makes it possible for people to talk directly to someone else in a different place.
可能采用的句子：
Telephone has had greater effects on people's lives than television.
“电视”定义：
Television, a communicative medium sending and receiving pictures and sounds by electrical signals, has become a traditional form of mass media and part of the modern culture.
可能采用的句子：
The purpose of television should be all educative, not entertaining.
“电影”定义：
Movies, moving pictures that can tell stories or show reality, have become a mainstream form of art and an important way of entertainment.
可能采用的句子：
Movies and TV have more negative effects than positive effects on the way young people behave.
“电子书”定义：
An electronic book refers to a book-length publication in digital form.
可能采用的句子：
In twenty years from now, students will not use printed books anymore.
“旅行”定义：
Travel means one’s moving from a familiar place to another or to several places.
可能采用的句子：
Which way is the best for students to make new friends: joining a sport team, participating in community activities, or travelling?
“体育运动”定义：
Sports are games such as football, tennis and other activities which need physical effort and skill.
可能采用的句子：
Sports can teach people important lessons on the understanding of life.
“社会生活”定义：
Social life consists of the activities in which people socialize, for example in their houses or at parties.
可能采用的句子：
It is more important for schools to fund their students’ social activities than to improve students’ meals.
“社交技能”定义：
Social skill is any skill facilitating interaction and communication with others.
可能采用的句子：
Students should not take part-time jobs while they are studying in universities.
“建议”定义：
If people give you advice, they tell you what they think you should do in a particular situation.
可能采用的句子：
Getting advice from people who are older than you is more valuable than from people of your age.
“政府”定义：
A government is the group of people who are responsible for governing a country for a particular time.
可能采用的句子：
People can solve important problems by themselves or with the help from their family members so there's no need for the government to help them.
“教育”定义：
Education is a form of learning in which the knowledge, skills, and habits of a group of people are transferred from one generation to the next through teaching, training, or research.
可能采用的句子：
Improving schools is the most important factor in the successful development of a country.
“大学”定义：
A university is an institution where students study for degrees and where academic research is done.
可能采用的句子：
For the successful development of a county, a government should focus its budget more on the education of very young children (5—10 years old) rather than on university.
“教授”定义：
A professor is a scholarly teacher whose duty consists of both teaching and doing research.
可能采用的句子：
It is more important for professor to teach students than to do researches.
“艺术”和“艺术家”定义：
Art is the creation and production of paintings, drawings, sculptures, etc., when these things are considered to be beautiful or to express in a unique way a particular idea or meaning.
Artists are people who create and produce works of art as their jobs or hobbies.
可能采用的句子：
The government should support artists rather than let them support themselves.
“经济”定义：
版本一：An economy is the system according to which the money, industry, and trade of a country or region are organized.
版本二：A country’s economy is the wealth that it gets from business and industry.
可能采用的句子：
Governments should focus more on preservation of environment rather than economic development.
“医疗”定义：
Health care is the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of disease, illness, injury, etc. in humans.
可能采用的句子：
When in times of economy crisis, government should spend less money on which part? Education, Health Care or support for unemployed?
“音乐”定义：
Music consists of sounds that are put together in a pattern and performed by people either using instruments or singing in order to give them pleasure.
可能采用的句子：
Young children (aged 5-10) should be required to learn music and art in addition to math, science, history and language.
“工作”定义：
A job is an activity one does regularly for payment.
可能采用的句子：
A secure job with lower pay is better than a job with higher pay but easy to lose.
“社会”定义：
版本一：A society is the people who live in a country or region, their organizations, and their way of life.
版本二：Society is people in general, thought of as a large organized group.
可能采用的句子：
The most important problems affecting our society today could be solved within our lifetime.
“文化”定义：
Culture consists of the ideas, customs, and art that are produced or shared by a particular society.
可能采用的句子：
Movies and TV programs produced in our own country are more interesting than foreign ones.
“环境”定义：
The environment is the natural surroundings in which people live.
可能采用的句子：
Environmental issues are too complex for individuals to deal with.
“乐观”定义：
Optimism is the feeling of being hopeful about the future and the belief that a particular situation or course of action will be successful.
可能采用的句子：
Do you think success is important, or it is more important to remain happy and optimistic when you fail?
“耐心”定义：
Patience is one’s ability to control his/her feelings so that he/she does not get annoyed, even in situations which other people would find annoying or frustrating.
可能采用的句子：
Patience is usually not a good strategy. We should take action now rather than later.
“交流”定义：
Communication is the activity or process of giving information to other people, using signals such as speech, body movements, or online messages.
可能采用的句子：
Communication skill is the most important characteristic of successful leadership.
“公司”定义：
A company is a business organization that exists in order to make money by selling goods or services.
可能采用的句子：
Businesses should hire their employees for their entire life.
“广告”定义：
Advertising is the activities of showing products, events or jobs in public in order to encourage people to buy the products, go to the events, or apply for the jobs.
可能采用的句子：
In order to succeed, a company should invest a great amount of money in advertising.
“父母”定义：
Our parents are people who give us life, parenting and upbringing.
可能采用的句子：
Parents spend too much time in deciding what their children do in the future; children should make their own choices.
“家庭教育”定义：
Family education is the first education one receives, and in large part determines his/her characters and capabilities.
可能采用的句子：
Parents today are more involved in their children’s education than in the past.
“博物馆”定义：
A museum is a building where a large number of interesting and valuable objects, such as works of art or historical items, are kept, studied, and displayed to the public.
可能采用的句子：
Visiting museums is the best way to learn about a country.
“宠物”定义：
A pet is an animal that you keep in your home to give you company and pleasure.
可能采用的句子：
The best way to teach a child responsibility is to let him/her keep an animal.
以上就是已经整理出来了的部分托福写作镇魂句。这么多的句子，我们要全部背下来吗？这些镇魂句的使用方法，再看看下面补充的一点：
如果你可以记下全部的句子，那么这是最完美的状态，但是我们也不是非要花费这么大脑力去这样做。以下是一些建议：
首先，我们能结合托福机经，有针对性地在考试之前选择组合特定的概念来记；其次，大多数的定义我们只需去读熟就好，保证对这些定义的内容有所了解，可以写下大致含义，不用一字不差地背会全部的句子。托福作文中的下定义，可以不要求像英文词典里那样准确。
作者：王伟男
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