2012：精品之必备词汇辨析[十四]

2012：精品之必备词汇辨析（十四）1、offer, provide, supply这组词都有“供给，装备”之意。

offer: 常用词，意为" 提出，提供，呈现"，表示向别人提供可接受也可拒绝的某物，如帮助，服务或物品，这可能是对方要求也可能是自己主动提出的。

offer to help sb. 表示愿意帮助某人；offer sb. sth./ offer sth. to sb.提供某人某物。

例如：The river would offer power production estimated at 500,000 kilowatts if a dam were constructed. 如果筑起水坝，这条河就能提供大约50万千瓦的电力。

An international corporation offered him a well-paid job, which he refused politely, since taking it would involve traveling abroad most of the time. 一家跨国公司向他许诺一份待遇优厚的工作，而他婉言谢绝了，因为接受那项工作就意味着大多数时间都得在国外出差。

provide: "供给，提供，装备，准备"，强调有预见，并通过储存或准备的方式为某事做准备，以在需要时提供所需物品。

常用词组：provide sb. with sth./ provide sth. for sb. 提供生活费，养活，为……做准备。

例如：Through the long days his wife sought by every possible means to provide him with occupation.在漫长的日子里，他的妻子试图用各种可能的办法给他找事干。

As equipment improved, satellites began providing scientists with weather maps of the entire globe. 设备改进后，人造卫星开始向科学家提供整个地球的气象图。

supply: "供给，补充，弥补"，着重表示替换或不足所需之物以及弥补缺陷，满足要求的意思，还可作名词，意为“供给（量），物资，存货”。

常用短语：supply the market with new commodities 向市场供应新产品；supply a want 弥补不足；supply...for把……供给。

The book would be incomplete without such discussions as I have tried to supply. 如果没有我努力提供的这样一些论述，这本书就会显得不完整。

What I admire most in my life is doctors and others supplying medical care to assistance recipients. 我一生中最敬佩的是那些向受援者提供医疗护理的医生和其他人。

2、opinion, proposal,adviceadvice: "忠告，意见", 指凭借丰富的知识，足够的经验及正确的判断,对他人提出自己的劝告，见解。

My advice to you as a friend is that you should treat your wife with more consideration. 作为朋友，我给你的忠告是你要多体贴妻子。

It was only by her husband's advice that Julia had given up the idea. 只是在她丈夫的劝告下，朱莉亚才放弃了这个念头。

opinion: "意见，看法，主张，见解"，可指个人或权威人士的判断，主要表示对于有争议，有疑问的事经过仔细考虑后得出的结论，但暗含其中有个人因素，可能有误会或会遭到驳斥。

常用词组：in one's opinion 依某人看。

The professors arguing about the cause of the disease, the young doctor listened attentively waiting for a chance to put forward his own opinion. 教授们在争论着这种疾病的病因，而那位年轻的医生专心倾听着，等待着提出自己见解的机会。

Our doctor says it is due to a nervous disorder, but I think we should take another opinion. 我们的医生说这是由于神经失调，但是我认为我们应该再请一位医生诊断。

proposal：“提议，建议，请求（如求婚）”，指较为正式的建议等，提出以供别人参考，接受或实施，但也可能被拒绝。

The steel industry refused to make any wage proposals until it obtained federal clearance for higher steel prices. 钢铁工业直到获得联邦政府提高钢价的许可后才不再拒绝提出任何有关工资的提议。

She told me that the second proposal of marriage which she received came from an Italian prince. 她告诉我第二个向她求婚的是一个意大利王子。

3、outstanding, distinguished这组词都含有“杰出”之意。

distinguished: "卓越的，卓著的，杰出的", 一般指人的才华，品德达到受正式认可的水平，尤指因优越的品质而超越于同类之上，从而为公众所知。

其动词词组：distinguish A from B, distinguish between A and B （分辨A和B）。

例如：Dwight D. Eisenhower was a distinguished general in American history, who made outstanding contributions to the victory of World War II. 艾森豪威尔是美国历史上战绩卓著的将军，他曾为二战的胜利作出了杰出的贡献。

Unlike their obscurer colleagues, distinguished composers do not have to struggle to get a hearing for their music. 著名的作曲家不像没有什么名声的同仁，无须为自己的作品得到上演而奔波。

His mind could no longer distinguish between illusion and reality. 他的头脑已经不再能分清幻觉和现实。

outstanding: "杰出的，突出的"，非正式的普通用词，一般指优于同类其他事物的人或事物，也可指某种与周围环境截然不同的特点。

These organizations have done outstanding work in promoting friendship and cooperation between the countries. 这些组织在促进邻邦间友谊和合作方面作出了杰出的贡献。

He was one of the outstanding legislators who had to resign simply because they couldn't afford to serve any longer. 他是那些由于不能继续工作而不得不辞职的杰出议员之一。

4、occupation, career, professionoccupation: "职业，事业", 是个较有概括性也较正式的词。

即某人经常做或训练有素的工作。

The report pointed out that society and occupation normally play an important part in determining mortality. 报告指出，社会与职业的因素在正常情况下对死亡有重要影响。

You can see in her face that life was full of interest, expectation and occupation. 你可以在她脸上看到对她来说生活中充满兴趣，期望和事业。

career:“事业，职业“，指一个人为之受过训练并愿终生或相当长一段时间从事的职业。

还含有“生涯，生活历程”之意。

It was a thousand pities so clever a fellow should be shut out from a career. 这么聪明的一个人不能在事业上一显身手，实在太可惜了。

As far as I was concerned, it didn't make much sense to be changing careers at this point in my life. 就我个人来说，到了这个年纪改行干别的，不会有多大出息。

profession: "职业"，指只有受过相当高的专门教育或训练，具有了某种专业知识和技能并有创造力的人才能从事的职业，过去专指法律，医学和神学，现在扩展到其他许多具有相当社会地位的工作，如教育，演艺等。

常用词组：by profession （就职业而言）。

例如：He chose to make his friends mostly among members of the advertising profession. 他喜爱主要在以设计广告为职业的成员中交朋友。

He was found early that he had a vocation for the ministry, though he ended up in the law profession instead. 尽管他最后当上了律师,但人们发现他早年从事的是神职工作。

5、of one's own, one's own这两个词组都是“自己的”的意思。