Words that are often confused 经常混淆的单词

Some words are often confused by language learners – because they are similar to another word or because they look like a word in your own language but have a different meaning. Here are some words that often cause conf

Some words are often confused by language learners – because they are similar to another word or because they look like a word in your own language but have a different meaning. Here are some words that often cause confusion.

有些词总会让学英语的人感到混淆—因为他们跟另外一个词很像,或者跟你的母语的某个词很像但是其意义完全不同。这里有一些经常引起混淆的词。

sensible and sensitive

sensible与sensitive

sensible means ‘practical’ or ‘having good judgement’

sensible是明智的

sensitive means ‘easily affected by the things people say or do

sensitive是敏感的

• Come on darling, be sensible and put a coat on. It’s freezing outside.
• Don’t be so sensitive - he didn’t say you were fat, it was just a joke.

Sympathetic and nervous

Sympathetic和nervous

Usually we are sympathetic when someone has a problem or is in trouble.

我们通常对某人遇到麻烦或者有困难的时候表现的 sympathetic(同情的)。

• They were very sympathetic when our house was burgled but they couldn’t do much to help.

We don’t use it to mean ‘nice’ or ‘pleasant’

我用它不是指好或者舒服。

• My uncle is a very sympathetic man.

We are nervous in a particular situation, like an exam. We don’t generally use nervous to describe someone’s character.

我们经常会在某些特定场合感到nervous,例如考试的时候,我们不用nervous去形容一个人的性格。

• I’ve never been as nervous as the time I had to give a speech to 500 people.

• My sister is very nervous. She’s always shouting at me.

journey and travel

journey和travel

Journey is countable. Travel is uncountable and refers to the general idea of travelling.

Journey是可数的,travel是不可数的,它指代的是“travelling(旅行)”的大意。

• Did you have a good travel?
• Travel is something I recommend to all young people.
• The journey took about 8 hours.

recipe, receipt and prescription

recipe, receipt和prescription

A recipe is a set of instructions for cooking something.

A recipe是菜谱

A receipt is a piece of paper you are given after you pay for something.

A receipt是收据

A prescription is a piece of paper a doctor gives you to get the medicine you need.

A prescription是处方 

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