英文学术写作笔记2——学术词汇和普通词汇对比

论文写作中，学术词汇在科研论文中更容易被接受，下表列举了普通词汇和学术词汇的一些对比：

普通词汇	学术词汇
Be made up of	Be composed of 组成，构成
Behave like	Act as 作为
Breathe in	Inhale 吸入, 吸气
Carry out	Perform 执行，完成
Fill up	Occupy 占据
Find out	Discover 发现
Get rid of	Eliminate 消除，排除
Get together	Concentrate 集中，浓缩
Hang up	Suspend 延缓，推迟
Increase in amount	Accumulate 积累
Join together	Combine 结合
Keep up	Maintain 维持，继续
Make sure	Validate 验证
Pass on	Transmit, Transfer 传递
Pour out of the top	Overflow 溢出
Pull towards	Attract 吸引
Push away	Repel 排斥
Push into	Insert 插入，嵌入
Put in	Add 加，增加
Speed up	Accelerate 加速
Spread out	Diffuse 扩散，弥散
Take away	Remove 移动，调动
Take in	Absorb 吸收
Think about	Consider 考虑
To get bigger	To expand 为了扩展
Not as good as	Be inferior to 不如
Before this	Previously 以前
All right for	Be suitable for 适合
Enough for	Adequate 足够
Without stopping	Unceasingly 不断
Today, now	Nowadays, at present 现在
To stay alive	To survive 为了生存
Not natural	Artificial 人造（非自然）
To make less, To become less	To decrease 为减少
About, more or less	Approximately 大约
Upside down	Inverted 倒置
Sometimes	Occasionally 偶尔
A little	Slightly 稍微
Better than	Superior 优于
To give, to supply	To provide 为了提供
To do this	For this purpose 为此
To do	To achieve 要实现

实例

(1) After a hole was made in a cork, a narrow glass tube wasinserted in it (不用pushed into).

(2) People obtain (不用get) natural rubber from rubber trees as a white milky liquid, which is known as (不用is called) latex.

(3) By experiments, it was discovered that (不用they found out) it consists of (不用is made of)
two important gases and very small amounts of others.

(4) The moon can be compared to (不用said to be like) a large mirror which reflects (不用throws
back) the sunlight to the earth.

(5) The reason is that the heat at the end of the silver spoon is transferred rapidly (不用passed
on quickly) from one molecule of silver to the next.

(6) As explained previously, electrons orbit (不用travel around) the nucleus, just as planets orbit the sun.

是不是觉得润色以后变得更加高大上了呢？