英语很蹩脚也许不是你的语法功底就很差,很多可能是语言表达习惯不同导致生搬硬套的哪找一种语言直接翻译成另一种。改正已经习惯的错误表达方式从现在开始。表达正确需要词汇语法还需要语感,语感来自于多读多练。
注意英语中错误的,可以用wrong,也可以用Incorrect,然而跟正确的,表示为correct或者right。但是值得注意的是:wrong和right相对互为反义词,Incorrect和correct相对互为反义词。
1、 今年夏天我要去自己的出生地看看,这是10年来的第一次。
出生地固定的搭配birth place, native place是本土的地方,不特指出生地区
Incorrect: I'll visit my native place for the first time in ten years this summer.
Correct: I'll visit my birth place for the first time in ten years this summer.
2、这个座位有人吗?
通畅问是不是位置的空的?然而,正确的用法是这个座位有没有被占据
Incorrect: Is this seat empty? Correct: Is this seat taken?
3、 我看他面熟。
看某人面熟,不是know one’s face ,这个是识别他的脸,一眼看上去熟悉就是望去
Incorrect: I know his face. Correct: I know him by sight.
4、 我的手表不走了,我得拿去检查下。
手表或者机械类的坏了,可以用break down,需要注意手表指针是走动的,所以用“run”同时也算是一种拟人化的象征
Incorrect: My watch doesn't move at all. I must get it checked up. Correct: My watch isn't running, I must get it checked up.
5、 让我来帮你完成工作吧。
Help帮助可做动词可做名词,作动词,帮助某人某事是,help sb with sth.固定用法
Incorrect: Let me help you to do your work. Correct: Let me help you with your work.
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6、 我建议你去休个长假。
Recommend建议,建议某人做某事需要接宾语从句,介绍某人某事recommend sb sth或者接that从句·············
Incorrect: I recommend you to take a long vacation. Correct: I recommend that you take a long vacation.
7、 太阳从东方升起。
从东方或者在东方,固定的表示方位的词: in the east / west/ south / north
Incorrect: The sun rises from the East. Correct: The sun rises in the East.
8、 小偷是从窗户爬进来的。
Go through是从内部通过的,在这里小偷是通过窗户,或者突破窗户
Incorrect: The thief got in from the window. Correct: The thief got in through the window.
9、.让我们从第10页开始。
具体的书籍某一页,某个面,固定是用at / on the page
Incorrect: Let's begin from page 10. Correct: Let's begin at(on) page 10.
10、 请在白线内等待。
Behind有在后面,在什么之外的意思,behind the line, 就是在线以内,不超过线。
Incorrect: Please wait inside the white line.
Correct: Please wait behind the white line.
11、 你家房子买了火险吗?
Incorrect: Is your house insured for fire? Correct: Is your house insured against fire?
10.我没地方住。
Live本身是生存、居住的意思,但是涉及到房屋,是居住在房屋里面,需要live in the house
Incorrect: I have no house to live. Correct: I have no house to live in.
11.脸好脏!照照镜子。
照镜子的固定搭配,look oneself in the mirror·······
Incorrect: What a dirty face! Look at the mirror. Correct: What a dirty face! Look in the mirror.
12.这是我房间门钥匙。
什么的要说,门/索的钥匙the key to the door / lock ,问题的关键the key to the problem
Incorrect: This is the key of my room. Correct: This is the key to my room.
13.我准备去上一个为期两年的英语课程。
Incorrect: I am going to take a two-year course of English.
Correct: I am going to take a two-year course in English.
14.末班车11点开,现在已经快11点了,赶紧的!
Incorrect: The last bus leaves at eleven o'clock. It's about eleven now, Hurry!
Correct: The last bus leaves at eleven o'clock. It's nearly (almost) eleven now, Hurry!
15.把手从电线末端挪开。
Incorrect: Leave your hand from the end of the wire.
Correct: Let go of the end of the wire.
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