大学英语辅导_新东方四级词汇笔记非常完整版

一、什么是词类活用 词类活用是指某些词按照一定的语言习惯在句中临时改变了它的基本职 能,充当了别的词类这种语法现象。 词类活用是从语法角度来说的,而不是从词汇角度来谈的。一般来说,一 个词的基本的语法功能是固定的,活用只是一种临时性的功能,离开了特定的 语言环境,这种临时性的功能就不存在了《荀子劝学》:“假舟楫者,非能 水也,而绝江河

1997年重点词汇 阅读理解部分: 1. parliamentary adj.议会的 2. territory.领土,版图,地域 3 incurably adv.治不好地,不能矫正地 4 convincing adj.令人信服的,有力的,令人心悦诚服的

Collocative meaning consists of the associations a word acquires on account of the meanings of words which tend to occur in its environment

Social meaning is that which a piece of language conveys about the social circumstances of its use. In part, we decode the social meaning of a text through our recognition of different dimensions and levels of style within the same language

John lyons gives us ten sentences to discuss what meaning is: )What is the meaning of “sesquipedalian? (signify) 2)I did not mean to hurt you (intend)

Blending is a process of word formation by which word is created by combinin ag parts of other words. Words formed in this way are called blends. From morphological viewpoints, there are four types of blending:

The English people are of mixed blood. At the beginning of the fifth century Britain was invaded by three tribes from the Northern Europe: the Angles, Saxons and Jutes

1. Morphology In American English, a number of irregular verbs have become regularised, while remaining irregular in British English: a)In many instances, it is only the voicing of the past tense morpheme -(e)d which has been changed to regularise the verb:

THE MOTIVES FOR EUPHEMIZING The motives for generating euphemisms are as diverse and as universal as the range of human emotions