英语专业词汇总结 (2)

i) brrowing: mingling of Latin ,French and native

element.eg.room/chamber;help/aid;leave/depart.(native/foreign) 2)dialects and regional English.

EG. lift/elevator;lawyer/attotney;pavement/sidewalk;chemist/druggist. 3)figurative and euphemistic use of words:occupation/walk of life(fig.);dreamer/stargazer（fig）

4）coincidence with idiomatic expressions。Win/gain the upper hand;decide/make one?s mind;hesitate/be in two minds. 5.discrimination of synonyms:

discrimination of synonyms.3

1)difference in denotation (differ in the range and intensity of meaning) timid/timorous. timid: the state of mind in which a person may happen to be at the moment, and the habitual disposition. timorous: disposition.

2)connotation: stylistic and emotive coloring of words . eg. answer /respond, unlike/dissimilar, storm/tempest.

3)application : collocations and sentence patterns. Eg.allow/let, answer/reply, sense/meaning, empty /vacant.