| 单词 | 简直是 |
| 释义 | 〔fat〕not merely overweight but downright fat.不仅是超重，简直是肥胖透顶。〔mockery〕The few packages of food seemed a mockery in the face of such enormous destitution.对于众多赤贫的人们，这几袋食物简直是杯水车薪〔bulwark〕It was impossible to break through her barricade of reticence.要打破她沉默的“壁垒”简直是不可能的。〔like〕Writers since Chaucer's time have usedlike as a conjunction, but 19th-century and 20th-century critics have been so vehement in their condemnations of this usage that a writer who uses the construction in formal style risks being accused of illiteracy or worse.Prudence requiresThe dogs howled as (not like ) we expected them to. Likeis more acceptably used as a conjunction in informal style with verbs such as feel, look, seem, sound, and taste, as inIt looks like we are in for a rough winter. But here tooas if is to be preferred in formal writing. There can be no objection to the use oflike as a conjunction when the following verb is not expressed, as inHe took to politics like a duck to water. See Usage Note at as 1together 自乔叟年代起，作家就把like 当作连接词用， 但19世纪和20世纪的批评家强烈谴责这种用法，在正式文体中使用这种结构的作家就有可能被指责为文盲或者更糟。为谨慎起见，就写狗不象 （而不是 like ） 我们想的那样叫。 Like在非正式文体中可作为连词和动词如 feel, look, seem, sound 及 taste 连用， 如在看起来我们将有一个难熬的冬天 中。 但这句如果出现于正式文体中人们更倾向于用as if 。 如果其后的动词无明确含义时，将like 作为连接词是不会有任何异议的， 如他对政治简直是如鱼得水 参见 as1together〔crock〕That story is nothing but a crock.那个故事简直是胡说八道〔laugh〕The solution they recommended was a laugh.他们提出的解决办法简直是个笑话 |
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