水蝎高级英语词汇区别总结

2021年1月22日发(作者：丢包率)
高级英语词汇区别总结

1. mix blend
Mix:
意为多种成分的混合，各构成成分失去自身的存在

Blend:
指可和谐共存的事物的混合

Oil and water do not mix.
These two colors blend well.

2. rambling rumbling
Rambling:
指（建筑物、街道）布局零乱的。

Rumbling:
指发生隆隆声

There are some rambling houses.
Listen! There is gun-fire rumbling in the distance.

3. relevant relative
Relevant:
意为切题的、恰当的、有重大关系的、有意义的逻辑联系

Relative:
着意于一物受他物影响而产生的依赖的关系。

The witness’s testimony is not relevant to the case.

Market values are always relative to the demand.

4. exhilarate exasperate
Exhilarate:
意为使高兴

Exasperate:
激怒，使烦恼。

I was exhilarated by her visit.
I was exasperated by all the noise.

5. jumble clutter
Jumble:
指不相同的东西混合在一起，混杂；

Clutter:
指许多物品堆挤在一起，散乱，杂乱。

His thoughts were all jumbled.
His desk is always cluttered.

6. terrified terrifying
Terrified:
意味着一种被恐惧镇住的紧张心情；

Terrifying:
指（声音、现象）本身具有令人恐怖的因素。

The terrified mother watched the dog attack her child.
What a terrifying voice.

7. contemptuous contemptible
Contemptuous:
指认为某物或某人卑鄙、
无耻或毫无价值，
并实际上也把这种看
法表现出来

Contemptible:
指任何能引起鄙视或嘲笑的事物，往往指首先或行为准则。

She gave a contemptuous laugh.
The indifference of the on-lookers was really contemptible.

8. evade dodge
Evade:
指巧妙地躲避、逃脱，也指避免（充分、诚实）地回答问题

Dodge:
指与他人无害的，为了避免面对某人或某事而想出来的巧妙办法。

You shouldn’t evade paying tax due.

He dodged the falling rock and escaped unhurt.

9. intrude invade
Intrude:
常指侵犯别人的隐私，有时指无意和突然的侵入

Invade:
指用武装力量很快地侵入别人的领地。

The man was embarrassed at finding that he had intruded on the young
lovers.
Hilter invaded Poland.

10. prevent withhold
Prevent:
预防、防止， 它适用于人力所及范围，指运用强有力的或暴力的阻止
手段，阻止反对某事。

Withhold:
意为“抵制”，“拒绝给予”

These rules are intended to prevent accident.
The company decided to withhold payment until they had completed the
construction of the building.

11. incredible incredulous
Incredible:
表被动意义，指不能令人相信的，难以置信的；

Incredulous:
表示怀疑的

What she was achieved is incredible to us.
There is an incredulous look on his face.

12. sympathy empathy
Sympathy:
意为协调或共鸣，
用于物时脂相互的影响，
用于人时通常指精神上的
共鸣，或指志趣爱好的投合；

Empathy:
指感情移入，具有了解别人之感觉或动机的能力。

I’m glad to find that we are in perfect symp
athy.
I have empathy for the mother.

13. content contented
Content:
只作表语，表示某种程度上的满足

Contented:
表示心满意足，不想再多要。

He was content that the thing had happened.
Don’t be contented with little success.


14. perseverance persistence
Perseverance:
含不屈不挠和执着的意味，
强调积极的忍耐，
运用耐力排除各种
困难

Persistence:
指坚持不懈，也含有固执的意义。

That shows his perseverance in the face of hardship.
She accepted his persistence in pressing the invitation.

15. moral morale
Moral:
主要指道德、品行、寓意

Morale:
主要指军队士气、精神面貌

He has no morals and will do anything for money.
The team’s morale was high after the victory.


16. separate segregate
Separate:
指使原先合在一起的东西分开，
也可以指 从中隔开，
常和
from
搭配，
有时还有区别开的意思。

Segregate:
指把两个团体或把一组人整体隔离，常指种族或宗教上的隔绝。

The Atlantic separates Europe from America.
The doctor decided to segregate people with infectious disease.

17. embitter agitate
Embitter:
使苦恼，怨恨，使痛苦

Agitate:
使激动，使狂躁不安，使焦虑。

She was embittered by her many disappointments.
He was much agitated about his father’s health.


18. noncommittal tentative
Noncommittal:
指在（争论，讨论中）不表示确定意见或立场，态度不明朗

Tentative:
是指试验性质，尝试性的，（凭）推测的，暂时性的。

She gave me a noncommittal answer
It is just a tentative explanation.

19. scrub scrape
Scrub:
指用力擦洗，擦净，一般用水、毛巾、刷子等。

Scrape:
指用工具刮，刮削，削掉，刮磨。

He is scrubbing the floor.
Before eating, scrape the mould from the surface.

20. ingenuous ingenious
Ingenuous:
多指人的性格、行为等坦白、直率的，并含有天真、单纯，没有心
计之义。

Ingenious:
指人机灵的，主要指头脑聪明，有发明的才能。

She gave ingenuous answers to all his questions.
He has an ingenious mind.

21. grudge malice
Grudge:
指对个人所怀有的恶意 ，
通常暗示因受到某种实际的或想像的轻蔑或侮
辱而产生的怨恨，并且常常暗示进行报复的决心 ；

Malice:
通常指根深蒂固的并且常常毫无道理或无法解释的恶意或怨恨，
时常带
有内心乐于做坏事，伤害他人，看到他人受苦之义。

I always feel she has a grudge against me, although I don’t know what
wrong I’ve done her .

There was no malice intended in what she said.

22. shrewd cunning
Shrewd:
指天生 聪明的、
机灵的，
具有神奇洞察力的，
通常也指精明而讲究实际
的

Cunning:
强调运用智力来狡诈行骗，通常反映的是一种低层次的才智或恶劣的
道德品质。

He is a shrewd business man.
The thief was very cunning.

23. pitiful sympathetic
Pitiful:
形容人或物可怜的，令人同情的

Sympathetic:
表示出于同情的，表示同情的。

The pitiful old lady died in a winter morning.
He was obviously sympathetic over what had happened.

24. anguish melancholy
Anguish:
指（精神、心灵）极度痛苦，悲痛

Melancholy:
形容内在的气 质和经常的愁眉苦脸不是由外部原因引起的，
这是一
种习惯性的忧郁、
低沉，
而事实上并非有什么不愉快的事，
它表现的是一种感伤
而不是痛苦。

She was in anguish over her missing child.
He gave me a melancholy smile.

25. stumble tumble
Stumble:
绊跌，绊脚，强调被。。。绊倒之意，也指跌跌撞撞地走，蹒跚而行
驶

Tumble:
指摔倒，滚翻，跌跤，坠落。

He stumbled over the edge of the carpet and fell.
She tripped and tumbled down the stairs.

26. on the whole as a whole
On the whole:
总的看来，大体上，指对多个事物权衡后得出结论

As a whole:
作为一整体，整个看来，前面往往有一个表示集体意义的名词。

I think, on the whole, we had better stay at home.
The temperature for the country as a whole is relatively high.

27. confine limit
Confine:
强调禁止或不能通过的边界，常表达严格的约束、遏制的含义，并带
有限制、束缚、阻碍或抵制等含蓄意义；

Limit:
表示限制，通常指对时间、空间、数量、能量或产品等预先做出规定。

He is confined to his berth by seasickness.
Try to limit your talk to ten minutes.

28. justifiable justified
Justifiable:
指在法律和道义上可证明为正当的，无可非议的，情有可原的

Justified:
指有理由，合情合理的，正当的。

What he did just now was hardly justifiable.
He is fully justified in leaving the matter at that.

29. difficulty adversity
Difficulty:
指任何困难

Adversity:
通常指严重的或连续的不幸，厄运或灾难

She has great difficulty in understanding him
In his adversity, I ever prayed that God would give him strength.

30. conserve preserve
Conserve:
指使保存完全、
不受损，
也表明被保存的对象，
一旦用完就很难再有
别的替代物了，含节省、节约之意。

Preserve:
指想办法保存起来或保持原样，它强调的是抵制破坏因素的想法。

We should try our best to conserve forests.
All countries should preserve the world peace.

31. unconcerned unbent
Unconcerned:
漠不关心的，无忧虑的

Unbent:
不顺从的，不屈服的，松弛的，放松的。

He is unconcerned with politics.
She was unbent after the exam.

32. keep from keep to
Keep from:
避开，阻止，防止，克制

Keep to:
局限于

He keeps from alcohol and tobacco.
She kept to herself in the ship and would speak to no one.

33. go to pieces break to pieces
Go to pieces:
瓦解，（在身体、精神、道德方面）崩溃，垮掉；

Break to pieces:
成为碎片。

She went to pieces when her husband died.
The glass fell and was broken to pieces.

34. falter waver
Falter:
表示因犹豫或恐惧等原因而声音颤抖或支吾结巴；

Waver:
强调犹豫不决，目的不明，也表示看得见、摇晃、不稳定的运动过程。

His voice faltered as he tried to speak.
She is wavering between going to a film and staying at home.

35. nervous fidgety
Nervous:
指敏感易激动的，担心的，担忧的

Fidgety:
指手脚或身体不停地动以至烦躁，不能潜心工作，常由紧张、无聊引
起。

She was so nervous till her son came back.
Towards the end of the day the pupils become fidgety.

36. flick pluck
Flick:
指（鞭或指尖等）轻击，轻弹

Pluck:
意为摘，抓，拉。

He flicked the dust from his hat.
He plucked her to drag her away from the crowd.

37. put down put off
Put down:
贬低、奚落，使窘迫

Put off:
使不高兴，使泄气，使对。。。失去兴趣。

She is always putting her husband down.
The accident put him off driving.

38. resemblance similarity.
Resemblance:
相似之处，相似程度，形似物，肖像，画像。

Similarity
：相仿 性，类似性，类似处，相仿处。有时暗指不同之处可忽略。

He bears a striking resemblance to his father.
We
are
going
to
explore
some
of
the
similarities
and
differences
between
British and American English.