你是猪。
正常:You are a pig.
TOEFL症:You are certainly no more than a pig.
GRE症前期:It would not be unjustifiable to claim that you resemble a pig not only superficially but also intrinsically.
GRE症后期:You are porcine/swinish/hoggish.
你脑子是不是坏了?
正常:Are you crazy or what?
TOEFL症:It’s a question whether or not you are crazy.
GRE症前期:Query whether or not the brain of you is still performing its function as normally as one would expect it to be.
GRE症后期:Are you asinine/obtuse/vacuous/fatuous/lunatic/frantic/frenetic/paranoid?
我爱你
正常:I love you
TOEFL症患者:I can’t stop loving you.
GRE症前期:I would wager that no one all over the world could honestly claim that they feel a stronger affinity towards you than I do.
GRE症后期:I woo/dote/adore/coddle/cosset/spoil you.
你扯淡!
正常:Bullshit!
TOEFL症患者:You are talking absolute nonsense.
GRE症前期:What you are talking about rests on myriads of unsubstantiated assumptions, which render it ridiculous as it stands.