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标 题: Glossary of Usage(26)
发信站: 哈工大紫丁香 (Fri May 19 10:11:28 2000), 转信
发信人: nostalgia (寂寞旅程), 信区: EnglishWorld
发信站: BBS 水木清华站 (Thu May 18 16:06:39 2000)
摘自Little Brown Handbook
different from, different than
Different from is prefered: His purpose is different from mine. But
different than is widely accepted when a construction using from would
be wordy: I'm a different person now than I used to be is preferable
to I'm a different person now from the person I used to be.
discreet, discrete
Discreet (noun form discretion) means "tactful": What's a discreet
way of telling Maud to be quiet? Discrete(noun form discreteness)
means "separate and distinct":Within a computer's memory are millions
of discrete bits of information.
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