时间:2019-02-04 作者:英语课 分类:英文语法词汇


英语课
美国英语与英国英语
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1. 行李和领取行李

行李:baggage(美);luggage(英)
首先要指出的是,美国人也用luggage这个词,英国人也用baggage.例如,机场领取行李,美国人说baggage claim,英国人说baggage reclaim,都是baggage.随身行李英文可以说personal baggage(luggage),行李寄放处是baggage(luggage)room,托运行李是to check the baggage(luggage)或to have one's baggage(luggage)registered,行李票是baggage(luggage)check,行李标签是baggage(luggage) tag,行李架是baggage(luggage) rack,行李车是baggage car(美国),或是luggage van(英国)。事实上,luggage这个词用得比baggage更为广泛,除了美国以外大多数说英语国家都用luggage来表示行李。当每次出差,坐在火车上,我总会想想周边物件的英文名,然后试着如何把他们用到句子中去。我相信积少成多,我相信今天的付出绝不会白花!

2. 年级和中学

年级:grade(美);form(英)
美国学校表示年级用grade,英国中学则用form,如六年级是the sixth form.美国有的私立学校也用form.这里有必要说明一下美国中小学的结构:美国小学是五年的(elementary school),初中是三年(middle school),高中是四年(high school).我国把中学一律叫middle school,这对美国人来说有点搞不清楚。另外,美国高一学生叫freshman,高二学生叫sophomore,高三是junior,高四senior.这跟大学一、二、三、四年级的叫法一样,也容易混淆。

3. 讲授和大学讲师

讲授:instruction(美);tuition(英)
Tuition这个词我们不陌生表示学费。但是,在英国英语里tuition也是讲授的意思,上数学课可以说to give tuition in mathematics.在美国英语里,讲授是instruction,美国大学老师就叫instructor(讲师),职称高于其的有assistant professor(助理教授),associate professor(副教授)和professor(正教授)。在美国英语里,lecturer不是中国概念的讲师,而是从校外请来讲课或开讲座的人。Lecture表示“讲师”是英国英语。

4. 邮局、邮箱和邮差

邮政:mail(美);post(英)
美国人把邮件叫mail,邮箱叫mail box,邮递员叫mailman,但是邮局却不用mail这个词,而是说post office.英国人把邮件叫post,邮箱叫post或letter box,邮递员是postman.有的美国人也把邮箱叫letter box,邮递员叫postman.

5. 你喜欢什么

喜欢:like(美);fancy(英)
英国人爱用fancy这个词来表示“喜欢”,例如“你喜欢吃什么?”美国人说What do you like for dinner?而英国人则可能说What do you fancy for dinner?



学英语单词
acapella
Accommodative Monetary Policy
air cylinder valve stem
aluminia
amakebe
Atremata
average period-end quantity on hand
balse (mexico)
banana water lily
banhus
be contemporary with
beachgoer
benign symmetric lipomatosis
bertossaite
bundeskanzler
captureth
class builder utility
clayeyness
constant-deviation prism
Crosfields
cross switch
crowd sail s
cylindrocarpon tonkinense
Daubechies wavelet
defilings
delivery authority
determiners
digital speed indicator
disk test
Duisburg
DYANA (dynamic analyzer)
epitome
factor reflection
facultative saprophytism
flecking
full-value letter of credit
fuzzy information retrieval
garett
gas maturity level
gas propulsive
genus Alosa
gross claim
hare checklist
house-hold
Hydroromeite
hypnum subimponens ulophyllum
iceberg detection
iced up
index to boundaries
infant car seat
Itapinima
Katharevusa
keep warm
LARPer
latchkey child
leakoff system
lemonweed
limoneer
linget
long-heralded
lupidi
man tramming
Maurer's dots
mesorhizobia
methylene blue test
microbenchmarks
Neolitsea howii
nice weather for ducks
non-moisture absorbing dust
nuptialis tabulae
olgun
Oligon
oxalaceto
panatella
paraenetical
pelelith
pinion file
pit pony
pitch and putt
potassium copper(ii) nitrite
protein-based
pyrochlorite
reduced gravity
reef cringle
rentered
roller-skater
sedded
sheath miles of fiber
statistical mechanical
Strategic Defense Command
test of ventilation hole on hydrogen inner cooled rotor
tranquilize,tranquillizing
triangle exercise
tricolour darkroom lamp
underground bunker
uplandish
UV image
V/VI
vortex theory
wheat-producing area
whelpless
ziya