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词人嗤语125

(2007-05-11 22:35:02)
分类: 词人嗤语集
likely很tricky, 用起来要小心. likely多数做形容词. 用法有likely to do, likely that. 做副词时, 1)必须加个修饰词在前, 如very likely, quite likely, most likely 2) likely副词修饰动词, 不能修饰形容词. 不符合这两条, 用probably.
He will quite likely require some help with his classes. – 对
They will likely buy a new car this year – 错
 

Fluctuate 使变动 & fluctuant 变动的,浮动的
Stable & fluctuating 变动,上下摇动
Color & coloring 染料
No preservatives or coloring added. 无添加防腐剂或者颜色。
Repair & impair 损害,削弱
An injury that impaired my hearing 令我听力受损的伤
A severe storm impairing communications 破坏了通信的大风暴
Occur 发生 & recur 复发
Second 第二 & secondary 次要的
A secondary source 间接来源
A secondary infection 继发感染
Secondary education中等教育
Delicate 微妙的 & delicacy 微妙
A delicate situation 微妙的局势
A topic of some delicacy 有几分微妙的主题
Consider sth sth
I consider it a great honor. 我认为这是莫大的荣幸。
Descendant 子孙,后代,后裔
Today's bicycles are descendants of the earlier velocipede. 今天的自行车是从早期的脚踏车发展而来的。
Promising 有前途的 & prominent 卓越的,显著的,显眼的
Prominent teeth突出的牙齿
A prominent nose大鼻子
A prominent doctor著明的医生
Steam 蒸汽,蒸发 & vapor 蒸汽,搞不清楚什么区别!!!!!!!!
Water vapor 水蒸汽
Corrode 使腐蚀 & corrosion 腐蚀 & corrosive 腐蚀性的
Describe & depict 描写
Isolate 使孤立,使隔绝 & solitary 孤独的
Inspire 吸气 & respire 再一次吸气?呼吸
Inspire & inspiration 灵感
Delve 钻研,通常和into连用
Delved into the court records钻研法庭记录
Radio & radioactive 有放射性的,有辐射的 & radical 激进的,根本的
Radical discrepancy 根本矛盾
Paradox & contradiction & discrepancy 都有“矛盾”的意思
Look down upon 瞧不起 & despise 蔑视 & desperate 不顾一切的
Acclaim 欢呼,称赞 & be acclaimed as 固定用法,不是be acclaimed to be
Penicillin was acclaimed as the most important discovery during the 1940's. 青霉素曾被公认是二十世纪四十年代最重大的发现。
He was acclaimed as the winner. 在欢呼声中他被承认为胜利者。
Patron 赞助人,资助人 & portion 一部分
Adjust 调节 & adjudge 宣判,判决
was adjudged incompetent 被认为缺乏能力
Judge 判断 & adjudge 宣判,判决 & adjudication 判决,宣告
Judge & jury 陪审团
So that 主语并不需要一致 & so as to 如此以致于。。主语要和主句保持一致
Mail your package early so as to ensure its timely arrival. 早点寄出你的包裹以便保证它能及时寄到。
Among the Cossacks, vegetable farming was once so despised that it was forbidden on pain of death. 可以看出主语不一致了。
Attributed to 被认为是。。写的
This tune is usually attributed to Chopin. 这个曲子通常认为是萧邦写的。
The modern scientific method is usually attributed to Galileo. 现代科学方法通常被认为是伽里略创造的。
Separate 分开 & sequester 使隔离
Cure & curable 可医治好的
Sanitarium 疗养院
Tube 管子 & tuberculosis 肺结核,呼吸是用气管的,和tube有点联系的
Assemble 组装 & resemble 类似于
Resemble & resemblance 类同之处
A strong resemblance between the two brothers 两个兄弟极为相像
Isolate 使隔离 & obsolete 都两个0了,还不荒废啊?
Marine 舰队 & submarine 潜水艇
Row & prow 船头 & prowl “ l”就是人啦,一个人站在船头上?巡游,游荡,潜行
Hunt 猎取 & haunt 神出鬼没,经常拜访
Still & distill 蒸馏,滴下
Gasoline is distilled from crude oil. 汽油是由原油蒸馏而得的。
At the invitation of sb 应某人之邀请
At the invitation of K , W settled in Gharla and became the editor of the Encyclopedia Africana.
Community & communal 公共的
Sketch 草图 & sketchy 粗略的
Inter & interval 间隔
A seventy-six-year interval between its passes close to earth
Anticipate & unanticipated 不期望的

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