易混词
Table of Contents
- 1. 名词
- 1.1. battle 与 war
- 1.2. cloth,clothes,clothing与dress
- 1.3. drawing, painting 和 picture
- 1.4. dinner 和 meal
- 1.5. family,house,home
- 1.6. job 与 work
- 1.7. person,people和man
- 1.8. problem 与 question
- 1.9. table 与 desk
- 1.10. farmer 与 peasant
- 1.11. floor 与 ground
- 1.12. door 和 gate
- 1.13. sound 与 noise
- 1.14. road、street、way
- 1.15. hedge、fence
- 1.16. value、worth、price、cost
- 2. 形容词
- 3. 形容词和副词
1 名词
1.1 battle 与 war
- battle 是指局部的战争、战役、战斗
- war 是指整体的战斗
1.2 cloth,clothes,clothing与dress
- cloth 指“布”,“布料”。
a dish cloth 一块擦碗布 a piece of cloth 一块布料
- clothes 指具体的衣服,包括内衣、外衣,不能与数词连用。
I want to buy sports clothes. 我想买运动服。
- clothing 是服装的总称, 包括内衣、外衣、还有帽子、鞋袜、手套之类。 @<font color="#ff0000">只能用单数,无复数@</font>
Now people are all in their winter clothing. 现在人们都穿着冬装。 This ti a fatory taht makes childred's clothing. 这是一家制作童装的工厂。
- dress 做不可数名词时,指外衣,尤指 社交场合穿的服装。 做可数名词时,长指 连衣裙
He doesn't care much about dress. 他不太注意衣着。 She wore a blue dress last night. 她昨晚穿了件蓝色连衣裙。
1.3 drawing, painting 和 picture
- drawing 是指用铅笔,钢笔,工具画的画。
- painting 是指用颜料画的画 (油画、水彩画等)
- picture 可指 drawing、painting、photo等
1.4 dinner 和 meal
- dinner 是指“正餐(午饭或晚饭)” 或者 “宴会”
Let's go and have dinner together. 我们一起出去吃饭吧。 We're having fish for dinner. 我们午饭吃鱼。 Come to dinner with us tonight. 今晚来和我们共进晚餐。
- meal 是指“一餐(一顿饭)”
What time do you usually have your meals? 你们通常什么时候用餐? We take three meals a day. 我们每天吃三顿饭。
1.5 family,house,home
- family 指家庭成员, 是“家人、家族、一家”的意思。@<font color="#ff0000"> 表示家族全体时 视为单数 , 表示家庭成员时 视为复数 @</font>
He has a family of three.
- house 指房子,建筑物
She left home at the age of sixteen.
- home 指家庭,包括家人,家居,家园。
He bought a very big house.
1.6 job 与 work
- job 是可数名词
She got a job of washing clothes. He has tried different jobs.
- work 是不可数名词
It takes a lot of work to build a building.
1.7 person,people和man
待补充
1.8 problem 与 question
- problem 指等待解决(solve)或决定(decide)的问题,难题。
That's no problem. I can lend you my money.
- question 指等待回答的 问题,提问。
May i ask some questions?
1.9 table 与 desk
- table 通常用于吃饭,游乐等,一般没有抽屉
- desk 被称为书桌,课桌,通常有抽屉
1.10 farmer 与 peasant
- farmer 美国农民,很少或者不种自己吃的粮食。
- peasant 中国农民,以种地为生。
1.11 floor 与 ground
- gloor 指室内的地板,地面
- ground 指室外的地面,也可以指地球表面
1.12 door 和 gate
- door 一般指房子,房间,家具的门,也可用于比喻意义
Close the door when you go out. Good luck is often the door to success. 好运常是成功的大门。 He lives next door to us.
- gate 指围墙、篱笆、栅栏的开口处。
He walked through the gate into the garden. We'll meet at the school gate at nine.
1.13 sound 与 noise
- sound 指一般的声音, 多做可数名词
I was waiting for the sound of the other shoe! The door was open, sounds came from the bedroom.
- noise 指令人不愉快的嘈杂声,刺耳声, 可以作可数名词也可以做不可数名词
But every night he heard the noise upstairs.
1.14 road、street、way
- road 意为 宽阔的大道。
- street 意为 道路两旁的建筑物比较高,可 视为 街道。
- way 表示要到达某地所要经过的途径,还可引申为 方式、 方法。
1.15 hedge、fence
- hedge是植物修剪成的篱笆
- fence是人工制作的
1.16 value、worth、price、cost
- value 价值(按人的主观判断对物品本身内在的有用评价)。
- price 东西的标价。购买某物品时要付的钱。
- cost 成本。
- worth 指物体本身永远不变的价值。
2 形容词
2.1 each和every的区别
2.1.1 each 强调个体,是形容词(adj)和代词(PRON).形容词时,起修饰限定作用,代词可以单独使用。each指2个或2个以上中的每一个。
- each boy
- each of the boys
- each of my hands
- each of my parents
2.1.2 every 强调整体,只能做adj
every 指三个或三个以上中的每一个。
- every students (不能写为every of the student)
- every one of my fingers.
2.2 vast、huge、enormous、tremendous、 immense、 igignantic、massive
- @<font color="#ff0000"> vast @</font> 着重空间,面积,范围的巨大,数量的庞大。不涉及重量。用作比喻时也指 阅历广,花费大。
- Our country has a large population, vast territory and abundant resources.
我国人口众多,地大物博。
- Vast amount of data about sales, prices, market conditions are stored in the computer system.
计算机中存储着大量的关于销售、价格、市场状况的记录。
- In the vast desert in Northwest China, there is a small leaf-shaped oasis about 25 kilometers to the southwest of the city of Dunhuang in Gansu Province.
在中国西北部一望无尽际的浩瀚荒漠中,甘肃省敦煌市东南25公里处有一片树叶形的绿洲。
- Our country has a large population, vast territory and abundant resources.
- @<font color="#ff0000"> huge @</font> 指体积,数量大的超过一般标准。可用来形容物体、距离、声音和程度等。
- They spent a huge amount of money on that villa.
他花巨款买下了那幢别墅。
- They hanged a huge inflated balloon above the company site to celebrate its fiftieth anniversary.
他们在公司所在地的上方挂了一个巨大的充气气球来庆祝五十周年。
- Down a few stairs was a huge stone slab carved with mysterious designs and hieroglyphics.
往下走几级梯子,有一个巨大的石板,上面刻着神秘的图案和象形文字。
- The huge curtain of falling water drops more than 100 meters into the mighty Zambezi River.
巨幅的瀑布在100米的高处从天而降,流入到宽广的赞比西河。
- They spent a huge amount of money on that villa.
- @<font color="#ff0000"> enormous @</font> 指体积、规模、数量上的巨大。 着重体积庞大,硕大无比。令人咋舌的事物。多用来形容形体,数量和程度。 有时含有紧急,严重的意思。
- 我们已经在这些问题上花费来大量的注意力。
An enormous amount of attention has been lavished on these problems.
- An enormous gap remains between the advanced countries and the developing countries.
发达国家与发展中国家之间存在这巨大的差距。
- Ever since the new manager start working, everyone in the office feel an enormous pressure.
自从新经理开始工作以来,办公室里的每个人都感觉到一种巨大的压力。
- 我们已经在这些问题上花费来大量的注意力。
- @<font color="#ff0000"> tremendous @</font> 语气比enormous强,而且多用于抽象的事物。
- Many foreign visitors marvel at the tremendous changes in Shanghai having made in recent years.
许多外国游客惊叹上海最近几年发生的巨大变化。
- By his speech, he whipped up tremendous enthusiasm among the audience.
他用演说激发了听众的极大的热情。
- Spaceships must attain tremendous speeds to reach these planets in reasonable time.
宇宙飞船必须获得巨大的速度才能在一定时间内到达这些行星。 (reasonable: 合理的,合适的。)
- Many foreign visitors marvel at the tremendous changes in Shanghai having made in recent years.
- @<font color="#ff0000"> immense @</font> 指三维空间和广度的巨大,也指规模巨大。 有大到不能计算的意味。
- Many early explorers got lost in the immense, uncharted Atlantic.
许多早期的探险家迷失在浩瀚未知的大西洋。
- He made an immense amount of money in business.
他在生意中赚了一大笔钱。
- Many early explorers got lost in the immense, uncharted Atlantic.
- @<font color="#ff0000"> massive @</font> 指巨大的,笨重的。指大的体积、数量和重量,侧重庞大而笨重。
- Massive medical bills are draining finances of the country.
巨大的医疗账单耗费国家的财政支出。
- Last week we had a massive power failure during a freak afternoon thunderstorm.
上星期在反常的午后雷雨过程中,我们遇上大规模的停电。
- Massive medical bills are draining finances of the country.
- @<font color="#ff0000"> gigantic @</font> 指特别巨大、庞大,巨人似的。
- The earth may be thought of as a gigantic magnet.
整个地球可看作是一块硕大无朋的磁石。
- The project is on such a gigantic scale that the cost is hard to calculate.
这项工程浩大,所费不赀。
- To achieve the four modernizations and make China a powerful socialist country before the end of this century will be a gigantic task.
实现四个现代化,使中国在本世纪 末成为一个强大的社会主义国家将是一项宏大的任务。
- The rapid development of automobiles has posed a gigantic burden to the public transportation.
汽车的快速发展给公共交通带来了巨大的负担。
- The earth may be thought of as a gigantic magnet.
3 形容词和副词
3.1 all 和 whole
都可译为“整个的”“全部的”
- 修饰单数可数名词或抽象名词时,它们可以呼唤,但词序不同。 all放在the,this,that,my,your等词前面 whole则放在之后
- She has worked all the afternoon.
- She has worked the whole afternoon.
- 修饰复数可数名词时,all的意义是 “所有的”, whole的意义是“整整的”
- All students will go there for a meeting.
所有的学生都将去那儿开会。
- It rained for two whole days.
雨下了整整两天。
- All students will go there for a meeting.
- 修饰地名时, whole不能直接跟地名。
- All Japan was surprised at the news.
- The whole of Japan was suprised at the news.
- all 可以修饰物质名词,而whole不能。
- He ate all the food.
3.2 alone 和 lonely
- alone 表示 独自一人
- lonely 表示 “孤单,寂寞”的情绪
- alone 作形容词时,只做表语
- But the children are not alone.
但是孩子们不是独自呆着的。
- He will be alone from now on.
他从此将一个人了。
- But the children are not alone.
- alone 也可以作副词,修饰动词
- She was sitting in the bed alone when we went to see her.
我们去看她的时候,她正一个人坐在床上。
- She was sitting in the bed alone when we went to see her.
- lonely 一般只用做形容词
- So we never feel lonely.
所以我们从来不感到孤单
- Robert is a very lonely traveller.
罗伯特时一个极其孤单的旅行者
- So we never feel lonely.