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作为形容词,missing和lost这两个词一般被中国读者认为是没有什么区别,可以互相替代使用的。但事实上,在不少场合这两个词的意思却并不完全一样,是不能随意替代使用的。例如在We encountered a boy in the forest.He was a lost child.(我们在森林里遇到一个孩子。他迷路了。)中,lost若改为missing,则句子就说不通了。因为上述a lost child=a child who didn’t know where he was。若改为a missing child,则其含
As adjectives, the missing and lost words are generally considered by Chinese readers to be indistinguishable and can be used interchangeably. However, in fact, the meaning of these two words is not exactly the same on many occasions, and it cannot be used at will. For example, in We encountered a boy in the forest. He was a lost child. In the forest, when we met a child. He lost his way. If lost lost instead of missing, the sentence could not be understood. Because the above a lost child=a child who didn’t know where he was. If you change to a missing child, it contains