中考易混淆词汇辨析（十八）

1. allow的用法辨析：

(1)为动词，意为“允许”；

  (2) allow sb to do sth. “允许某人做某事”；

        allow doing sth. “允许作某事”；

        be allowed to do sth. “被允许去做某事”。

    e.g. My mother allows me to go out with my best friends on weekends.

            Teacher allowed doing the thing.

            They aren’t allowed to speak loudly in the class.

2. everyday与every day的辨析：

(1)everyday为形容词，意为“每天的”；相当于daily;

  (2) every day意为“每一天”；作时间状语。

e.g. Playing sports plays an important role in our everyday life.

        Students in this school read English words every day.

3. think的用法辨析：

    (1) think about表示“考虑，想起”。

    (2) think of “考虑, 记忆, 记起”

    (3) think sth. over “仔细想, 审慎思考, 作进一步考虑”

    (4) think sth. out

“想通, 想出, 熟思”

e.g. He is thinking about travelling in the summer holidays.

      She was thinking about her childhood days.

        I can’t think of his name at the moment.

        Please think over what I said.

        He thought out a new idea.

4. by accident “偶然；意外地”；与by chance意思相同。

e.g. The little girl knocked the glass by accident.

        Tom met his Chinese friend Mary by chance.

5. take place “发生；出现” ：

(1)是不及物动词，不能用于被动语态；常指事先安排或事发有因的事情；

(2)辨析：happen则常指偶然发生的事情；

(3) happen to do

sth.“碰巧做某事”。

e.g. Her sister’s marriage took place at 8:00 today.

      I happened to see Peter on my way to the museum.

      I happened to stay at home when Tom visited me yesterday.

6. “一个16岁孩子”的表达方式：

(1)a child of sixteen

(2)a child of sixteen years old

(3)a sixteen-year-old child

(4)sixteen-year-olds = sixteen - year - old

children “十六岁的孩子们”