高級同義詞辨析:decide,determine,resolve和resolution
decide,determine,resolve和resolution有什麼不同?
一、如果英語詞彙decide,maje up one's mind,determine,resolve和resolution都不存在「生詞」問題需要解決,只剩下「有什麼不同」問題,那麼,學習的目標就簡單的多。
1.decide: dec-ide,dec-ide,dec-ide
2.determine: deter-mine,deter-mine,deter-mine
3.resolve: reso-lve,reso-lve,reso-lve
4.resolution: resol-ution,resol-ution,resol-ution
僅限於「決心,決定」詞義而言,仔細觀察下面例句:
1. I've made up my mind to exercise more and lose weight.
2. I've decided to exercise more and lose weight.
3. I'm determined to exercise more and lose weight.
4. I'm resolved to exercise more and lose weight.
5. I've come to a resolution to exercise more and lose weight.
體驗了這些英語,看出「門道」沒有?有沒有Oksy.I got you的「歸納收穫」?
僅就「決定做某事,決心做某事」而言,這幾個英語詞只有兩點主要區別:語法搭配不同,「決定」程度大小:從寬泛的做決定,到「鐵了心要做某事」。
或者說,我們從這幾個詞的學習中有了英語業內的一個術語:big word,逼格詞,或者直接叫「大詞」。resolution詞「最big,decide,make up my mind最「接地氣」,文盲都聽懂的一個詞。
其實,這也正是我們學習英語的一種「英語外」的收穫:原來還有big wird一說,和這個「意識」。
口語訓練:
1. Okay.I got you.We have different ways/words to talk sbout the same thing.
2. When we've made up our mind to do something,we can also say :We've decided to do something.
3.We can also say: We're determined to do it,that means We decide it very very firmly.
4. We can say,too:We're resolved to do it:decided more firmly than decide,a big word.
5. We can say,as well: We've come to/make a resolution to exercise more and lose weight.
二、這幾個動詞decide,determine,resolve都有相應的名詞形式drcision,determination,resolution,通過詞性替換,我們也可以實現「用英語理解英語」,並表達同一個意思:
1. When we decide to do something,we make a decision to do it.
2. When we're determined to do something,it is our determination to do it.
3. When we're resolved to do something,we make/come to a resolution to do it.
其實,我訓練的重點不在於用大量的中文解釋了同義詞區別,你只得到中文,而在於藉助同義詞辨析,我們做了大量英語口語訓練。
這是我們一貫的作風。