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戴爾美語IELTS雅思試題與解題示範教學 2026年01月21日

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戴爾美語IELTS雅思試題與解題示範教學 2026年01月21日

The bar chart compares the proportions of overweight Australian men and women across four age groups.

Overall, men are consistently more likely to be overweight than women in every age category.
In addition, the prevalence of excess weight generally increases with age for both genders, before showing a slight decline in the oldest group.

In the youngest age group, around 40% of men are overweight, compared with just over 30% of women.
This gap narrows slightly in the second group, where the figures rise to approximately 50% for males and 45% for females.
A more pronounced difference appears in the third age group: roughly 65% of men are classified as overweight, whereas the proportion of women is just above 50%.

In the oldest category, the percentage of overweight men falls modestly to about 60%, while the figure for women remains stable at just over half.
Despite this small reduction, men continue to exhibit higher rates than women overall.


這篇範文在數字處理上,不在於完整再現圖表,而在於有選擇地賦予數字語言重量。
作者並未將所有百分比逐一轉寫,而是先判斷哪些數字具有「結構性意義」,再決定如何呈現。
具體而言,數字被分為三類:基準值、極值,以及差別處。

在第一組年齡層中,男性約 40%、女性略高於 30% 的數據被作為比較起點。
這組數字的功能不是說明嚴重程度,而是建立最初的性別差距,因此使用 around 與 just over,刻意弱化精確性,使數字服務於「差距存在」這一概念,而非數值本身。

第二組的 50% 與 45% 則被整合為 the gap narrows slightly。在這裡,兩個數字不再各自發聲,而是被壓縮成一個關係判斷。
這顯示作者已將數字視為「關係材料」,而非必須逐條朗讀的資訊。

第三組數據是全圖的關鍵數字群。男性約 65%、女性略高於 50%,這裡首次同時保留兩個百分比,因為它們構成全圖最大的性別差距與男性的高峰值。
數字在此被允許更清楚地出現,是因為它們承擔了「極值」的分析功能。

最後一組中,男性由高點回落至約 60%,女性則維持在 50% 出頭。作者不強調女性的微幅變化,而以 remains stable 處理,顯示此處的分析重心在「男性下降」而非女性波動。