2010年11月10日 星期三

形似字

早前提到書店擺位問題,網友留言用上 conspicuous place 一詞。不知是栗病昏了頭,還是「年紀大,機器壞」,我即時想到「可疑的地方」,要定一定神才意識到那是「顯眼位置」。


英文有很多串法相近的字,令人頗為困擾。對栗來說,auspiciousconspicuous suspicious 三個形容詞就十分形似。當然,它們的解釋完全不同:


auspicious: (formal) showing signs that something is likely to be successful in the future (吉祥的)


conspicuous: easy to be seen or notice, like to attract attention (顯眼的)


suspicious: making you feel that something is wrong, illegal or dishonest (可疑的)


要弄清楚形似字的分別,除了多查字典,或許可借George一句:「常記」方能「不忘」。


3 則留言:

  1. the two words don't look that much alike, do they?
    [版主回覆11/12/2010 07:11:00]It's something personal, Teacher. My colleague told me that she can never spell the word 'separate' correctly. My case is something like that.

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  2. 嗯, 我都覺得.  串字的時候, "icious" & "icuous" 總覺得好難記的.
    "Separate" 我都成日串錯.

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  3. 來這兒真好, 粟子妹.
    短短一篇, 卻真的學到東西呢!
    Thank you!
    [版主回覆11/16/2010 20:26:00]不客氣。我覺得每個人都有盲點,要花點力氣才不會中招~

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