【真题实例】 How can a company encourage its employees?

　　【答题思路】 公司鼓励员工的方式有很多，《剑六》中专门有一篇阅读文章，叫Motivating Employees under Adverse Conditions，有兴趣的考生可以参考一下。其实光动词encourage和motivate，就含有不少词性变换的生机：encourage → encouragement → encouraging; motivate → motivation → motivational。能把这两串词汇用好，就已经非常令人刮目相看了。

　　【参考答案】 For employees to really perform well, a company should think about how to encourage them at the workplace. For example, encouragement can come in the form of a big reward for those high achievers, so that they are motivated to work harder in the future. Also, even a public letter of recognition and praise is very encouraging. Sometimes, this kind of motivation can go a longer way than financial incentives. Finally, promoting a good worker to a higher position with greater responsibilities is an effective motivational exercise.

　　三种不同的鼓励员工的方法在这里被一一道明：

　　第一是丰厚的物质奖励(a big reward);

　　第二是公开的表扬信(a public letter of recognition and praise);

　　第三是职位的晋升(promoting to a higher position)。

　　其间展示的是encourage和motivate这两大动词及其名词、形容词之间毫无障碍的自由切换。