易混淆的單詞

1、1. clothes, cloth, clothingclothes統(tǒng)指各種衣服，謂語動詞永遠是復數(shù)， cloth指布，為不可數(shù)名詞 clothing 服裝的總稱，指一件衣服用a piece of, an article of2. incident, accidentincident指小事件, accident指不幸的事故He was killed in the accident.3. amount, numberamount后接不可數(shù)名詞， number后接可數(shù)名詞 a number of students4. family, house, homehome 家，包括住處和家人，house房

2、子，住宅，family家庭成員. My family is a happy one.5. sound, voice, noisesound自然界各種各樣的聲音，voice人的嗓音，noise噪音I hate the loud noise outside.6. photo, picture, drawingphoto用照相機拍攝的照片，picture可指相片，圖片，電影片，drawing畫的畫Lets go and see a good picture.7. vocabulary, wordvocabulary詞匯，一個人擁有的單詞量，word具體的單詞He has a large vocabu

3、lary.8. population, peoplepopulation人口，人數(shù)，people具體的人 China has a large population.9. weather, climateweather一天內(nèi)具體的天氣狀況，climate長期的氣候狀況 The climate here is not good for you.10. road, street, path, wayroad具體的公路，馬路，street街道，path小路，小徑，way道路，途徑take this road; in the street, show me the way to the museum11

4、. course, subjectcourse課程（可包括多門科目），subject科目（具體的學科）a summer course12. custom, habitcustom傳統(tǒng)風俗，習俗，也可指生活習慣，后接to do， habit生活習慣，習慣成自然，后接of doing. Ive got the habit of drinking a lot.13. cause, reasoncause 指造成某一事實或現(xiàn)象的直接原因，后接of sth./doing sth，reason用來解釋某種現(xiàn)象或結果的理由，后接for sth./doing sth. the reason for being

5、 late14. exercise, exercises, practiceexercise運動，鍛煉（不可數(shù)），exercises練習（可數(shù)），practice（反復做的）練習Practice makes perfect.15. class, lesson作課解時,兩者可以替換.指課文用lesson. 指班級或全體學生用class. lesson 6; class 516. speech, talk, lecturespeech指在公共場所所做的經(jīng)過準備的較正式的演說，talk日常生活中的一般的談話，講話，lecture學術性的演講，講課 a series of lecture on17.

6、officer, officialofficer部隊的軍官，official政府官員 an army officer18. work, job二者均指工作。work不可數(shù)，job可數(shù) a good job19. couple, paircouple主要指人或動物，pair多指由兩部分組成的東西 a pair of trousers20. country, nation, state, landcountry側重指版圖，疆域，nation指人民，國民，民族，state側重指政府，政體，land國土，國家 The whole nation was sad at the news.21. cook,

7、 cookercook廚師，cooker廚具 He is a good cook.22. damage, damagesdamage不可數(shù)名詞, 損害，損失; damages復數(shù)形式, 賠償金 $900 damages23. police, policemanpolice警察的總稱，后接復數(shù)謂語動詞，policeman 指某個具體的警察 The police are questioning everyone in the house.24. problem, questionproblem常和困難連系，前面的動詞常為think about, solve, raise，question常和疑問連

8、系，多和ask, answer連用25. man, a manman人類，a man一個男人 Man will conquer nature.26. chick, chicken二者均可指小雞，chicken還可以當雞肉 The chicken is delicious.27. telegram, telegraph當電報解時，telegram指具體的，telegraph指抽象的 a telegram, by telegraph28. trip, journey, travel, voyagetravel是最常用的，trip指短期的旅途，journey指稍長的旅途，voyage指海上航行a t

9、hree-day trip29. sport, gamesport多指戶外的游戲或娛樂活動，如打球，游泳，打獵，賽馬等；game指決定勝負的游戲，通常有一套規(guī)則 His favorite sport is swimming.30. price, prizeprice價格，prize獎，獎品，獎金 win the first prize The price is high/low.31. a number of, the number ofa number of許多，謂語動詞用復數(shù)。the number of的數(shù)目，謂語動詞用單數(shù)。The number of students is increa

10、sing.32. in front of, in the front ofin front of范圍外的前面，in the front of范圍內(nèi)的前面 In the front of the room sits a boy.33. of the day, of a dayof the day每一天的，當時的，當代的， of a day暫時的，不長久的 a famous scientist of the day34. three of us, the three of usthree of us我們（不止三個）中的三個，the three of us我們?nèi)齻€（就三個人）The three of

11、 us-Tom, Jack and I went to the cinema.35. by bus, on the busby bus表手段，方式，不用冠詞，on the bus表范圍 They went there by bus.36. for a moment, for the momentfor a moment 片刻，一會兒，for the moment暫時，一時 Thinking for a moment, he agreed.37. next year, the next yearnext year將來時間狀語，the next year過去將來時間狀語He said he wou

12、ld go abroad the next year.38. more than a year, more than one yearmore than a year一年多，more than one year超過一年（兩年或三年等）39. take advice, take the(ones) advicetake advice征求意見，take the advice接受忠告 He refused to take the advice and failed again.40. take air, take the airtake air傳播，走漏，take the air到戶外去，散步 We

13、 take the air every day.41. in a word, in wordsin a word總之，一句話， in words口頭上 In a word, you are center.42. in place of, in the place ofin place of代替，in the place of在地方 A new building is built intheplace of the old one.43. in secret, in the secretin secret秘密地，暗自地，偷偷地，一般用作狀語；in the secret知道內(nèi)情，知道秘密，一般用作

14、表語 My mother was in the secret from the beginning.44. a girl, one girla girl可泛指所有女孩, one girl一個女孩 Can one girl carry such a bigbox?45. take a chair, take the chairtake a chair相當于sit down坐下，take the chair開始開會46. go to sea, by sea, by the seago to sea當海員，出航，by sea乘船，由海路， by the sea在海邊 go by sea47. the

15、 doctor and teacher, the doctor and the teacherthe doctor and teacher指一個人，既是醫(yī)生又是老師，the doctor andtheteacher兩個人，一個醫(yī)生和一個老師 the doctor and teacher is48. in office, in the officein office在職的，in the office在辦公室里 He is in office, not outofoffice.49. in bed, on the bedin bed臥在床上，on the bed在床上 The book is on

16、 the bed. He is illinbed.50. in charge of, in the charge ofin charge of管理，負責照料， in the charge of由照料 He is in charge ofthematter. The matter is in the charge of her.71.at all, after allat all根本，全然, after all到底，畢竟 After all he is a child.72. tall, hightall常指人或動物，high常指物體 He is tall.73. fast, quicklyfa

17、st側重于指人或物體具有運動速度快的特點，quickly側重指某事完成或發(fā)生的快 run fast, answer the question quickly74. high, highlyhigh具體的高，highly抽象的高，高度的 think highly of75. healthy, healthfulhealthy健康的，健壯的，healthful有益于健康的 healthful exercise76. sleeping, asleep, sleepysleeping正在睡覺，asleep睡著，熟睡，只能做表語，sleepy困的，有睡意的 a sleeping baby The bab

18、y is asleep. Im sleepy.77. gold, goldengold指真金制品，golden指金色的，但金魚用gold fish a gold ring78. most, mostlymost用于表感受的肯定句中，相當于very，當大部分，大多數(shù)解時是形容詞或名詞，mostly大部分,是副詞 most people, the people are mostly79. just, veryjust表強調時是副詞，作狀語，very表強調時是形容詞，用作定語 the very man, just the man80. wide, broadwide側重于一邊到另一邊的距離，broa

19、d側重于幅面的寬廣broad shoulders81. real, truereal真的，真實的，指的是事實上存在而不是想象的，true真的，真正的，指的是事實和實際情況相符合 real gold, a true story82. respectful, respectablerespectful尊敬，有禮，respectable可敬的，值得尊敬的 be respectful to the aged 83. outwards, outward二者均可用作副詞，表示向外，外面，outward還可用作形容詞 an outward voyage84. pleasant, pleased, pleas

20、ingpleasant常用作定語，pleased, pleasing常用作表語，pleased主語常為人，pleasing主語常為物 a pleasant trip The trip is pleasing.85. understanding, understandableunderstanding明白事理的，能體諒的，understandable 可理解的，能夠懂的 an understanding girl, an understandable mistake86. close, closelyclose接近，靠近，closely緊緊地，緊密地 closely connected, sta

21、nd close87. ill, sickill做表語，sick定，表均可 a sick boy88. good, wellgood形容詞，well副詞，但指身體狀況是形容詞 He is well again.89. quiet, silent, stillquiet安靜的，可以發(fā)出小的聲音，silent不發(fā)出聲音，但可以動，still完全不動，完全無聲響 He stand there still. 他站在那兒，一動不動，也不說話。90. hard, hardlyhard努力，hardly幾乎不 work hard I can hardly believe it.91. able, capab

22、le able與不定式to do連用，capable與of連用 He is capable of doing92. almost, nearly二者均為幾乎,差不多 和否定詞連用用almost almost nobody 93. late, latelylate遲，晚，lately最近，近來 I havent seen him lately.94. living, alive, live, livelyliving, alive, live均為活著的，living定表均可，alive定表均可，定語后置，live只能做定語，lively意為活波的 all the living people=al

23、l the people alive95. excited, excitingexcited使人興奮的，exciting令人興奮的 Im excited. The news is exciting.96. deep, deeplydeep具體的深，deeply抽象的深，深深地 deeply moved, dig deep97. aloud, loudaloud出聲地，loud大聲地 read aloud(出聲地讀)98. worth, worthy二者均為值得，worth后接doing，worthy后接to be done, of being done It is worth visiting

24、. = Its worthy to be visited. = Its worthy of being visited.99. bad, badlybad形容詞，badly副詞，不好，但與need, want, require連用為很，非常 go bad I need the book badly. 100. before long, long beforebefore long不久以后，long before很久以前 not long before = before long101. quite, ratherquite完全地，相當于completely, rather修飾比較級 quite

25、 impossible102. happy, gladhappy高興，幸福，定表均可，glad高興，只能做表語 a happy girl103. instead, instead ofinstead是副詞，放在句首或句末，instead of是介詞短語，放在句中He didnt see a film. Instead he watched TV. He watched TV instead of seeing a film.104. too much, much tootoo much 后接不可數(shù)名詞，much too后接形容詞 much too heavy105. be about to,

26、be going to, be to dobe about to表最近的將來，后面不接時間狀語，be going to 側重打算，想法，be to do側重意志，計劃，安排Im to meet him.(含雙方事先約好的意思)106. raise, riseraise及物動詞，rise不及物動詞 The sun rises in the east.107. bring, take, carry, fetchbring拿來，take帶走，carry隨身攜帶，fetch去回這一往返動作 fetch a box of chalk108. spend, take, pay, costspend人做主語，花錢，花時間; spendon sth./in doing sth; take物做主語，花時間; pay人做主語，花錢，pay for; cost物做主語，花錢109. join, join in, take part injoin加入某個組織，并成為其中的一員；join in參加小型的活動, join sb. in；take part in 參加大型的活動 He joined the army five years ago.110. learn, studylearn學習，側重學習的結果，study學習，側重學習的過程，研究 study the problem111. w