高中英语课外辅导:第二册Module 6 词语辨析
1. take place;happen 1) happen 作“发生”解是普通用词,词义较广泛,用于客观事物或情况的发生或出现,可用于有明显起因或偶然发生的事物或出乎意料的事物。例如:
It happened in the evening as people were traveling home.
2) take place 作“发生”解时词义与happen大致相同,但它更多用于事先计划或预想到的事情,没有“偶然”的含义。例如:
Great changes have taken place in the last two years in China.
2. know;know about
1) know 意为“知道;了解”常用作及物动词,其后一般表示事物的名词,从句,不定式的复合结构或“疑问词+动词不定式”结构。例如:
I don't know the way to the post office.
另外,know 还可以作“认识;熟悉”解,其后多接表示人的名词,表示与人的直接了解。例如:
I don't know her, nor do I know who she is. 我不认识她,也不知道她是谁。
2)know about 意为“知道……的情况”例如:
―Do you know Mr. Smith? 你了解史密斯先生吗?
—No, but I know about him long ago.不了解,但我知道有这个人。
3. result in;result from
1) result in 意为“导致”,一般主语表示原因,介词in 的宾语表示结果。例如:
His careless driving resulted in the terrible accident.
2) result from 意为“由于……而引起”, 与result in 相对,一般主语是结果,介词from 后宾语为原因。例如:
This terrible accident resulted from his drinking too much.
4. fairly;rather
两者都有“相当地;颇有几分”之意。但在用法上有所不同。
①在语气上fairly比rather轻,一般修饰含褒义的形容词或副词。而rather 多和含有贬义的形容词连用,语气较重。例如:
The weather today is fairly good.
I felt rather tired at the end of my journey.
②rather 可以和比较级连用而fairly 不能。例如:
误:It's fairly hotter today than yesterday.
正:It's rather hotter today than yesterday. ③rather 可以与too连用,fairly 不能。例如:
误:The book is fairly too difficult for me to read.
正:The book is rather too difficult for me to read.
④ rather 可以放在所修饰的可数名词单数的不定冠词前面或后面,而fairly 则总是放在不定冠词的后面。例如:
This is a rather (rather a ) interesting novel.
He is a fairly good novelist.