容易混淆的英语词语辨析

　　本书所收的条目基本上可分三大类。一类是因为读音或拼写近似而容易混淆的词语，例如：elicit/illicit，economic/economical，ingeniousingenuous.childlike/chil出sh等等。一类是因为概念上旬某种联系，而一般人由于常识不够而不太清楚区别在哪里的词语，例如：gravity/gravitati0n，barrister/solicitor，t0rtoise八urtie等等。鉴于当今世界科学技术在人类生活中广泛渗透，具有日益重要的地位，在学习英语的同时也应当掌握属于常识性术语的确切概念。最后一类，也是最重要的一类，是汉泽相同或十分近似但含义并不相同的英语词语，这些是中国人学英语所特有的问题，也是许多外国人编写的类似工具书往往涉及不到的。例如：loving/bel0ved，explain/interpret，mem0rize/recite等等。本书条目按首字母的顺序排列，用首字母加号码的办法，将各条目逐编号。为便于读者使用，本书除前面列有全部条目的目录外，后面还有出现在条目中的所有单词和短语及其编号的索引。条目中含有的例句基本郎有汉译，以照顾各类读者的需要。

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   abbreviation/acronym/initialism
   about/on
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   accident/mishap
   adapt/adopt
   admission/admittance
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   calorie/Calorie
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   city/town/township/borough/municipality
   civil law(system)/criminal law/common law(system)/
   international law
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   common/mutual/reciprocal
   common stock/ordinary share/preferred stock
   preference share/A shares
   compare /contrast
   compensatory damages/punitive damages/nominal damages/
   substantive damages/liquidated damages/unliquidated
   damages/general damages/special damages
   complex/complicated
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   concertmaster/leader
   Confederate States of Anmeriea/U. S. Federal Union
   connutat ion /denotat ion
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   delusion/illnsion
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   diagnosis /prognosis
   dialectal/dialectic/dialectical
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   doublet /cognate
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   educator/educationist
   effective/efficient
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   either/both
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   elevation/plan
   elicit/illicit
   eligible/illegible
   emigrate/ immigrate
   enclave/exclave
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   enervate/mnervate
   euphemism/euphuism
   explain/interpret
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   fluid/liquid
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   fraternal twin(s)/identical twin(s)
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   good/well
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   gravitation/gravity
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   green paper/white paper
   Greenwich Mean Time/Standard Time/Daylight Saying
   Time
   guarantee/guaranty/guarantor/warrantee/warrantor/
   warranty
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   higher criticism/lower criticism
   highlands/the Highlands
   lowlands/the Lowlands
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   hope/wish
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   -ic/-ous
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   illegal/illicit/illegitimate
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   parentheses/brackets/braces
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   pedant/pedagogue
   perfume/cologneAoilet water
   phylum/class/order/family/genus/species
   pitiful/pitiable/piteous
   pleasant /pleased
   pratical /practicable
   practice/praetise
   precipitate/precipitous
   preface/foreword/introduction
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   pressurize/pressure
   presumptive /presumptuous
   principal/principle
   private school/public school
   prohlem/question
   prophecy/prophesy
   proposal /proposition
   pseudonym/alias
   psychologist/psychiatrist
   receive/accept
   referee/umpire
   refurnish/refurbish/redccorate/renovate
   regret/remorse
   related/relevant
   relation/relative
   remember doing/remember to do
   repethious/repetitive/repeated
   restful/resrfve
   rob/steal
   salary/wage
   salon/saloon
   satisfactory/satisfying/satisfied
   sensible/sensitive
   shadow/shade
   shall/will
   shelve/table
   snake/serpent
   soda/soda water/soda pop
   South/Deep South
   specie/species
   speed/velocity
   speedometer/mileometer/odometer/tachometer
   spurious/specious
   steeple/spire
   stimulus/stimulant
   strategy/tactics/stratagem
   stratum/strata
   successful/successive
   such/like this
   sugar/icing sugar/granulated sugar/superfine sugar/
   candy
   summerhouse/summer house
   that/which
   this/that
   till/until
   till/(until)/by
   tilKuntil)/to
   timidityAemerityAimorousness
   tolerance /toleration
   tortoise/turtle/rerrapin
   tortuous/torturous
   toupee/wig/transformation
   triumphal/triumphant
   typhoid/typhus
   upstage/downstage
   use/usage
   vena/venial
   waterproof/water-repellent/water-resistant
   whisky/whiskey
   who/whom
   womanly/womanish
   wool/hair
   wreak/wreck/wrack