词汇妙用法二：三大词性之间的“零换乘”
【真题实例】How can a company encourage its employees?
【答题思路】公司激励员工的方法有很多，《剑六》中专门有一篇浏览文章，叫Motivating Employees under Adverse Conditions，有兴致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活力：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.
三种不同的激励员工的方式在这里被一一道明：第一是丰富的物资嘉奖(a big reward);第二是公开的表彰信(a public letter of recognition and praise);第三是职位的提升(promoting to a higher position)。其间展现的是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。