形虽同 意甚殊——小议十五个常见多义词

• 作 者: 李尚宏
• 出 处: 英语自学
• 发表日期: 1999年04期
• 关键词: 演变发展 一词多义 近义 不知道 silence 中有 liten 时间单位 白川 会议记录

英语中有许多多义词。大多数情况下,一个词的两个或更多的意义是有联系的。例如:head 既有“头”的意思,又可以指“领导”,“首领”,后者其实是由前者演变发展而来的。在这种情况下,只要掌握一个意义就可以推测其它意义。但并非所有多义词都是这样的,有些时候词形一模一样,意义却大相径庭,甚至风马牛不相及。如果不了解这些多义词的不同意义,读者很可能会被词形蒙蔽,错误地理解和运用这些词语。这类多义词数目不算小,本文列举其中十五个。

There are many polysemy words in English. In most cases, two or more meanings of a word are related. For example: head has both the meaning of “head”, but also refers to “leader” and “leader”. The latter actually evolved from the former. In this case, as long as you have a sense, you can guess other meanings. However, not all polysemy words are like this. Sometimes the word forms are exactly the same, but their meanings are very different. They are even different. If you do not understand the different meanings of these polysemy words, readers are likely to be blinded by grammatical forms and misunderstand and use them. The number of such polysemy words is not small. This article lists 15 of them.