常見的英語同義詞50組(2)

 32.大

big: Large in size, extent or important.

large: Much bigger than average

great: Very large, important, and good.

great change / great writer / great idea.

huge: Very fig in size, amount and degree.

It stresses volume.(體積)

a huge house/ make a huge profit.

vast: Very large and wide, great in size or amount.

It stresses area.(體積)two dimensional extensions

It is a vast expanse of desert.

vast plains/ vast majority / at vast expanse.

immense: Very great in size or degree./very large or huge.

It stresses three dimensional largesse.

It implies immeasurableness.

an immense palace/ immense importance

The government will build an immense stadium.

enormous: Extremely large./very large in size, amount or degree.

It stresses not only size but degree.

It implies abnormality.

He earned enormous sums of money

an enormous animal/ enormous appetite/ enormous amount

tremendous: Extraordinarily large in size, amount or degree. / large or impressive

It implies astonishment, terror.

tremendous speed / tremendous noise/ tremendous amount /tremendous feeling.

gigantic: Immense in size, on a very large scale like a giant.

titanic: Very big or important.

It refers back to the Titans, a race of giant in Greek mythology. It stresses force and power.

 We've made titanic effort to achieve our purpose.

colossal: Very large indeed.

It comes from Colossus of Rhodes a huge statue that is

one of the wonders of the ancient world.

It implies incredibility.

 33.感情

feeling(s): It can refer to mind or body. It's either pleasant or painful.

(感覺) sensation: (u c n) A direct feeling coming from the senses and conveyed to the nervous system by the organs of seeing,  hearing, touching, tasting or smelling. Sugar gives a sensation of sweetness.

(激情) emotion: (c n) Any of the strong feelings of the human spirit Love, joy, anger, hatred and grief are emotions.

His speech had an effect on our emotions rather than our reason.

(強烈的激情) passion: Strong emotions, strong, deep often uncontrollable

feeling, esp. of sexual love, hatred or anger.

The poet expressed his burning passion for the woman he loved.

(情操 情趣) sentiment: (u c n) A tender or fine feeling as of pity, love,  sadness or imaginative remembrance of the past.

 It's not a beautiful watch, but I wear it for sentiment  because it is my father's. Admiration, patriotism and loyalty are sentiments.

34.工作 職業(yè)

 work: (u n) A very general one.

 job: (c n) Any sort of gainful regular employment whether

 permanent or temporary.

 He had a good jog in a bank.

 profession: It suggests a position that can't be gained without a  considerable amount of higher education.

 It implies intellectual work, scholarship and mainly refers to three learned professions-law, medicine and  theology.

 What do you think of the profession to be a teacher?

 occupation: What he is engaged in, either continuously or temporarily, for any purpose, whether of profit of amusement, learning.

 Can you find occupation suitable for his abilities.

 employment: (u n) What one is doing, work done in service of another in order to make a living or get pay./temporary business,

 The government gives some money to the worker out of  employment.

 vocation: (c n) A job which one does because one thinks one has a special fitness or ability or sense of duty.

 It suggests the people do it in order to help others not for the earning of a livelihood. teaching and nursing. Teaching children ought or be a vocation as well as a way of earning money.

 position: (fml) A job, post, usually involving professions managerial or clerical work, not manual.

 She got a position as a governess.

 He lost his position as steward.