书面英语二

特定单词的常见问题

belong to 不能与 be one of 等价；

• The Habsburgs belong to Eurpe’s most ancient dynaties;(不正式)
• The Habsburgs are one of Eurpe’s most ancient dynaties;(OK)

Get

get可以用于很多场景，但通常有更好的单词替换get。

• acquire
• become
• derive (e.g. derive most of his income)
• grow (e.g. grow confused)
• have
• obtain
• possess (e.g. possess adequate medical equipment)

Emerge,Happen,Occur,Prove,Turn out

• happen 强调偶然性；(e.g. as it happens; It quite often happens that)
• occur 发生(take place)；(it did not occur to him 没有意识到)
• prove,turn out 在语域上不同。prove更为正式(e.g. The new secretary prove (to be) incompetent)。prove后面的to be 通常可以省略；

Namely

• namely 通常介绍一个短语
• This paper will be examing one of the greast modern health hazards, which is air pollution. (错误示例，可以使用Namely代替which is)
• namely很少用来介绍句子
• namely在当代英语中不常用，in other words, to be more specific, that is to say
• i.e. 也就是；namely 使得意义更为具体