时间:2019-02-13 作者:英语课 分类:英文语法词汇


英语课

   Can you tell the difference between British and American English? Check out these words, then tell us which variety of English you tend to use by leaving a comment below.


  英式英语和美式英语有什么不同?看看这些单词,然后说说你平时愿意用英式英语还是美式英语。
  British - American
  1. Pavement – sidewalk
  1.人行道
  2. Rubbish – trash
  2.垃圾
  3. Football – soccer
  3.足球(小编注:football在美式英语里也存在,是美式足球也就是橄榄球的意思)
  4. Biscuit – cookie
  4.饼干
  5. Sweets – candy
  5.糖
  6. Tube – subway
  6.地铁
  7. Full stop – period
  7.句号
  8. Autumn - fall
  8.秋天
  9. Flat – apartment
  9.公寓
  10. Lift – elevator
  10.电梯(小编注:这种电梯是箱子一样上下的那种,如果是扶手电梯则叫escalator)
  11. Chips – fries
  11.薯条
  12. Petrol – Gas
  12.汽油
  13. Motorway 1 – highway
  13.高速公路
  14. Jam – jelly
  14.果酱,果冻
  15. Cinema – movie theatre
  15.电影院
  16. Trousers – pants
  16.裤子
  17. Car park – parking lot
  17.停车场
  18. Jumper – sweater
  18.毛衣
  19. Holiday – vacation
  19.假期
  20. Post code – zip code
  20.邮编
  Over the past 400 years, the form of the language used in the United States – and that used in the United Kingdom and the rest of the British Isles 2 have diverged 3 in many ways, leading to the dialects now commonly referred to as American English and British English. Differences between the two include pronunciation, grammar, vocabulary, spelling, punctuation 4, idioms, formatting 5 of dates and numbers, and so on. A small number of words have completely different meanings between the two dialects or are even unknown or not used in one of the dialects.
  过去的四百年间,美国、英联邦以及不列颠群岛使用的语言都在不断地发生变化,最终演变成了英式英语和美式英语。两种英语在音标、语法、词汇、拼写、标点、谚语、日期和数字的形式等等许多方面都有不同。有一小部分词在两种英语中有着完全不同的意思,有些甚至在另外一种英文中不会使用。
  This divergence 6 between American English and British English once caused George Bernard Shaw to say that the United States and United Kingdom are "two countries divided by a common language"; a similar comment is ascribed to Winston Churchill. Likewise, Oscar Wilde wrote, "We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, the language."
  美式英语和英式英语之间甚至让萧伯纳产生了“英美两国是被同一种语言分开了”的感慨。丘吉尔也发出了类似的感叹。王尔德也写到:“现如今除了语言,我们与美国有许多相似之处。”
本文由在线英语听力室整理编辑。

n.高速公路,快车道
  • Our car had a breakdown on the motorway.我们的汽车在高速公路上抛锚了。
  • A maniac driver sped 35 miles along the wrong side of a motorway at 110 mph.一个疯狂的司机以每小时110英里的速度在高速公路上逆行飙车35英里。
岛( isle的名词复数 )
  • the geology of the British Isles 不列颠群岛的地质
  • The boat left for the isles. 小船驶向那些小岛。
分开( diverge的过去式和过去分词 ); 偏离; 分歧; 分道扬镳
  • Who knows when we'll meet again? 不知几时咱们能再见面!
  • At what time do you get up? 你几时起床?
n.标点符号,标点法
  • My son's punctuation is terrible.我儿子的标点符号很糟糕。
  • A piece of writing without any punctuation is difficult to understand.一篇没有任何标点符号的文章是很难懂的。
n.格式化v.使格式化( format的现在分词 );规定…的格式(或形状、大小、比例等);安排…的格局(或规格);设计…的版面
  • Select the block of text and-click and choose Default Formatting. 选择目标文字块,点击鼠标右键,选择默认格式。 来自互联网
  • There are emerging conventions about the content and formatting of documentation strings. 这里介绍文档字符串的概念和格式。 来自互联网
n.分歧,岔开
  • There is no sure cure for this transatlantic divergence.没有什么灵丹妙药可以消除大西洋两岸的分歧。
  • In short,it was an age full of conflicts and divergence of values.总之,这一时期是矛盾与价值观分歧的时期。
标签: 词汇
学英语单词
affected region
aftertcare
apportionment of valuation
aquaticine
ban woen
bank's account title
barse
base air defence environment
Binet-Simon Scale of Intelligence
calcium tablet
capillaraneurysm
Carquefou
castrophrenia
channa striata
classical electrodynamics
close-fights
complete gassification process
Congestion avoidance
constant volume line
constant-current magnetron
contacting width of edge
continuous laser
cuntified
daddylonglegs
desertful
double stroke
dual-tandem locked-train gear box
dysphoric
edge extracting
Eisighofen
electromechanical brake
ente
eurobin
fauts group
ferrotype
fingerprint expert
floccotan
floor manifold
forward coding
gelatine filter
genus Chrysanthemum
geophysical sciences
georg
greyings
growth-blocking peptide
hami
heptode mixer
heramandiol
high-tail
human socioeconomic system
incognoscibility
infector-
james francis thorpes
light scattering technique
looked around for
low level exclusive
low-protein
mained
mid-flight
Mikhanovichy
nonroutine functions
normal sensibility
normative testing
outer coarse fiber
paisiello
panting action
peaklike
pearl powder
previsional
protopsaltai
rheumapyra
Rokkō-san
satirical drawing
shachar
side rack
single stage single suction volute pump
soil taxonomic classes
special purpose terminal
Sphagnidae
Standrod
statutory acknowledgement
strcmp
stringent
sucking insects
supreme court of appeal
swan base
sweep-frequency radar responder beacon
syndactyls
synthesizers
Tatebayasi
the ratio of A to B
three-axis mounting
to count your chickens before they hatch
Touroff
triggered flashes
tristan und isolde
versive
vitaminBx
wamser
windrush
xcvi
Young's double slit experiment