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标 题: Glossary of Usage(18)
发信站: 哈工大紫丁香 (Tue May 16 07:44:05 2000), 转信
发信人: nostalgia (寂寞旅程), 信区: EnglishWorld
发信站: BBS 水木清华站 (Mon May 15 15:09:18 2000)
摘自Little Brown Handbook
bunch
In formal speech and writing, bunch (as a noun) should be used only to
refer to clusters of things growing or fastened togeter, such as
bananas and grapes. Its use to mean a group of people or items is
colloquial; crowd or group is preferable.
burst, bursted; bust, busted
Burst is a standard verb form meaning "to fly apart suddenly"
(principal parts burst, burst, burst). The past-tense bursted is not
standard. The verb bust (busted) is slang.
but, hardly, scarcely
These words are negative in their own right; using not with any of
them produces a double negative. We have but an hour(not We haven't
but an hour) before our plane leaves. I could hardly (not couldn't
hardly) make out her face.
** make out: 辨认出
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君子不器
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