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词人嗤语84

(2007-01-16 04:46:14)
分类: 词人嗤语集
Immune 免疫的 & immunity 免疫性
Immune protein 免疫蛋白
Immune antibody 免疫抗体
Proto 表示“第一”& prototype 原型
Proto human 原人
Quick & quirk & quirky 诡诈的,离奇的 & quirkily
Exterior 外部的 & interior 内部的
Image 形象
For Changfeng, Li said, selling in the United States is important because it will help boost the image of the company's vehicles in China, where picky consumers are suspicious of the quality of Chinese brand cars.
Save & savvy 头脑
Still, knowing it has little in terms of technology, human resources, marketing savvy, and brand identify to jump into the global market, changfeng executives say they won’t to build the company’s fundamentals. Said Li, “we want to make sure every step we take is strong.”
Significance 意义
The significance for college students of doing a part-time job means more than money and experience 大学生打工的意义还不仅在于钱和经验
Tie 带子 & tier 代
The next tier of china’s automotive strivers
Labor & laborious 费劲的,辛苦的
A laborious work 一个费劲的工作
Parallel 平衡的 & perennial 持续不断的,多年生的,长久的
Annual 年度的,植物学里面“一年生”& perennial 植物学里面“多年生”
Permanent 永久的 & perennial 四季不断的
Super & superfemale 超雌,有3个x染色体 & supermale 超雄,有3个y染色体
Face & superficial 表面的,肤浅的,相当于shallow,微小的
A superficial wound 表皮伤
Made only a few superficial changes in the manuscript 只在手稿中做几处无关紧要的小改动
Custom 习惯,风俗 & consume 消耗
Custom & customize 定做,用户化
It must customize aspects of its operations and marketing to local conditions.
Appear & appeal & appeal to 呼吁
Multi & multidirectional 多渠道的
This process of cultural transmission is multidirectional. 这种文化传播的过程是多渠道的。
Empire 帝国 & empery 帝权 & emperor 皇帝 & imperial 皇帝的,注意,这个变形有点exceptant。
Empty 空的 & empery 帝权
Imperial & imperialism 帝国主义,帝制
Material culture 实质陶冶,还没有figure out这是什么意思
Animal 动物 & anime 芳香树脂,这两个词风牛马不相及
Furniture 家具 & furnish 布置家具
Finish & furnish
The room was furnished with the simplest essentials, a bed, a chair, and a table. 房间里只布置了最简单的必需品,一张床、一把椅子和一张桌子。
The new guest hotel has finished, but it's not yet furnished. 新的招待所已建成,但家具还没有布置好。这个句子绝!恰好把两个易混淆的词都用进去了。
Furnish & furnishings 常用复数,表示家具,陈设品
Encounter 遭遇
Encounter numerous obstacles 遭遇很多阻碍
Insist 坚持,坚决 & consist 组成 & persist 坚持不懈,坚持多年
Insistent 坚持不懈的 & persistent 持久稳固的
The need to customize products and operations to local conditions that starbucks encountered is a persistent theme in international business. 永恒的主题
Paw 掌 & talon 爪
Should 应该 & shall 将会
Return to 回到某个话题
It is one that we shall return to repeatedly in this book.
Repeat & repeated 相当于repeat的形容词,比较特殊 & repeatedly
To begin with = first of all 首先
Face & the face of 面貌
We shall appreciate how it is changing the face of international business. 我们将鉴赏它如何改变国际商业的面貌。
Better late than never (谚) 迟做总比不做好
Domestic 国内的 & domain 领土
Domestic & demonstrate 证明,示范
Demonstrate & demonstration 实证,示范
Civil & civilize 使文明,教化 & civilization 文明
Many a rough man has been civilized by his wife. 许多粗野的男人在其妻子的影响下变得文雅了。
A flash point 闪光点
Why does globalization have become a flash point of debate, demonstration, and conflict over the future direction of our civilization?
Dependent & interdependent 相互依赖的
As used in this book, globalization refers to the shift toward a more integrated and interdependent world economy.
Aspect & facet 都有“方面”的意思,好像aspect特别指问题的“方面”
Globalization has several facets, including the globalization of market and the globalization of production.
Distinct 独特的
Merge 合并 & immerge 浸入,浸没
Merge 合并 & emerge 呈现,浮现
POW= poison of war 战俘
He fell apart after years as a POW. 做战俘多年他崩溃了。
Fall 击倒,记住这个distinct的意思,不难想象,但rarely用它
Falling barriers to cross-border trade have made it easier to sell internationally.
Rarely 很少 & barely 几乎不能 两个词很容易混淆

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