英语三级考试:容易混淆的词汇(三)
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成人英语三级考试容易混淆的词汇

13.advice,advise

advice劝告(名词)。如:I want to give you some advice.

advise劝告(动词)。如:What do you advise me to do?

14.adopt, adapt

adopt (1)收养。如:Since they have no children of their own, they decided1 to adopt a little girl. (他们自己没有孩子,所以决定收养一个小女孩。)(2)采纳,采用,通过。如:He adopted our suggestion.(他采纳了我们的建议。)

adopt与adapt词形相近,后者的意思是“使适合”,“改编”等。

15.advance, proceed, progress

均可表“前进”。

advance表向一个特定的目的地,在一定的时间或空间内稳定地向前运动。如:Napoleon’s army advanced on Moscow. (拿破仑的军队向莫斯科挺进。)

proceed强调从一处向另一处的运动,常表停顿后继续前进。如:They proceeded from London to Paris. (他们从伦敦往巴黎前进。)

peogress 多表自然过程,指生长,发展等稳定地或循环往复地前进。如:The year is progressing, it will soon be summer. (光阴似箭,很快又是夏天了。)

16.advantage, benefit, profit

advantage 常指一种使某人处于比其他人相对有利的地位,机会或时机。如:He had the advantage of good education. (受过良好的教育对他十分有利。)

profit 多指报偿或报偿性的收入。如Did you make any profit last year? (你去年赚钱了吗?)

benefit 指物质利益或精神方面的好处。如:I get no personal benefit from the business.(我个人从这家企业中并不获益。)

17.advise, convince, persuade

均可表“劝说”。

advise表建议,规劝某人应该做某事或如何做。如:He advised me to put my money in the bank. (他劝我把钱存入银行。)

convince指向某人陈述事实,运用推理或逻辑证明使某人信服。如:We convinced Smith to go by train rather than plane. (我们说服了史密斯乘火车而不乘飞机前往。)

persuade指用感情说服某人去做某事。如:I persuaded him to go back to work. (我说服他回去工作了。)

18.affect, effect

affect影响(动词)。如Smoking affects health.

effect效果,影响(名词)。如:Government policy will not have any effect on us.



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1 decided lvqzZd     
adj.决定了的,坚决的;明显的,明确的
参考例句:
  • This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
  • There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。
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