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好书推荐 | 一本让你暑假弯道超车的单词书
作者:Simon Heffer (西蒙·赫弗)
出版时间:2014年5月
由浅入深读深悟透,真正掌握简练准确的英语 咬文嚼字遣词造句,避免常见错误英语用法和表达 严谨务实斟酌推敲,确保更为得当的英语用词
This is a sober, practical book which makes no attempt to be trendy or amenable to loose fashion but wants us to parse, to know how to use participles and to distinguish between who and whom and disdain “hopefully”.
informative (增长见闻的) riveting (引人入胜的) bracing (令人心旷神怡的)
stylistic howlers (文体错误)
solecisms (语病)
catachresis (词语误用、引申夸张、比喻牵强)等。
因草率马虎(sloppiness)造成的单词误拼(typos/misspelling)
容易混淆的缩写形式(St 为saint, St. 为street)
专有名词的首字母要大写(New Scotland Yard:苏格兰场,伦敦警察厅的代称)
大小写有别,含义大不同(Cancer vs cancer, Catholic vs catholic, Marshall vs marshal)
名词的单复数(data, England cricket team)
容易混淆的单词(obliged vs obligated, allusion vs illusion vs delusion vs elusion)
英式英语和美式英语的词汇区别(pants vs trousers, holidays vs vocations)