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在《新概念英语》经典版第二册第56课的难点部分里,出现了handsome、beautiful、pretty和good-looking几个近义词的辨析,今天我们就来梳理梳理。
【备注】
以下单词的英文释义都选自柯林斯词典的在线版:https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english。
该词主要表示“英俊的;可观的”。如:
1、英俊的
修饰男性:A handsome man has an attractive face with regular features.
例如:He is a tall, dark, handsome sheep farmer.
修饰女性:A handsome woman has an attractive appearance with features that are large and regular rather than small and delicate.
例如:She's an extremely handsome woman with a beautiful voice.
2、可观的
修饰事物:A handsome sum of money is a large or generous amount.
例如:They will make a handsome profit on the property.
该词主要表示“美丽的;出色的”。如:
1、美丽的
修饰人:A beautiful person is very attractive to look at.
例如:She is a very beautiful woman.
修饰物:If you describe something as beautiful, you mean that it is very attractive or pleasing.
例如:It was a beautiful morning.
2、出色的
修饰行为:You can describe something that someone does as beautiful when they do it very skilfully.
例如:That's a beautiful shot!
该词主要表示“标致的;好看的”。如:
修饰人:If you describe someone, especially a girl, as pretty, you mean that they looknice and are attractive in a delicate way.
例如:She's a very charming and very pretty girl.
修饰物:A place or a thing that is pretty is attractive and pleasant, in a charming but not particularlyunusual way.
例如:Whitstable is still a very pretty little town.
【注意】
pretty可以直接用作副词,表示“很;非常”,即:
You can use pretty before an adjective or adverb to mean 'quite' or 'rather'.
例如:I had a pretty good idea what she was going to do.
该词主要表示“好看的”,即:
Someone who is good-looking has an attractiveface.
例如:Cassandra noticed him because he was good-looking.
这组形容词都可用于形容人或物,表示“美丽”。
其区别是:
1、beautiful少用于男性;handsome用于男性,指“英俊;潇洒”;pretty偶尔用于男性时含贬义。例如:
He is young and handsome. 他既年轻又英俊。
2、在修饰女性时, beautiful指“漂亮”,表示令人愉快的和谐与完美,侧重阴柔之美,气质高雅;handsome指“端庄健美”,pretty指“娇小可爱”,good-looking仅指一般的好看。例如:
She is not really beautiful, but she looks pretty when she smiles. 她其实并不美,但笑起来很可爱。
Some girls are good-looking; a few, but very few, are beautiful. 有些姑娘长得还算好看,但是称得上美丽动人的却很少。
Would you describe that woman as handsome or beautiful? 你觉得那女子是体态端庄还是貌美动 人?
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