英美比拼:20个词汇的不同表达
时间:2019-02-13 作者:英语课 分类:英文语法词汇
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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。
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