英语词语辨析大全，怎么分清楚这几组让人挠头的易混淆英语词语
英语词语辨析大全，怎么分清楚这几组让人挠头的易混淆英语词语That law deprived me of my most basic rights.例句：You use basic to describe things activities and principles that are very important or necessary and on which others depend.基本的，基础的，BASIC既可用于具体事物，也可用于抽象事物。
英语里，在没有语境的情况下，很多近义词的意思基本上一致，几乎无法分清相互之间的区别，让人雌雄莫辨。
下面这几组词语就经常在文章里出现，而且在写作时也很难准确掌握其使用之道。
1.basic elementary fundamental PRIMARY这一组形容词都有“基本、基础的”之意。
BASIC
You use basic to describe things activities and principles that are very important or necessary and on which others depend.
基本的，基础的，
BASIC既可用于具体事物，也可用于抽象事物。
例句：
That law deprived me of my most basic rights.
那条法律把我的最基本权利都剥夺了。
ELEMENTARY
Something that is elementary is very simple and basic.
初步的，初级的，
着重指基本的或开始的事物，也指初步的概念和原则、必要的因素及组成部分。
例句：
He is ignorant of even the most elementary facts.
他连最基本的事实都不知道。
A proton is an elementary particle of matter.
质子是物质的基本粒子。
FUNDAMENTAL
You use fundamental to describe things activities and principles that are very important or essential. They affect the basic nature of other things or are the most important element upon which other things depend.
根本性的，必要的，必须的。
一般只用于抽象的事物；
例句：
Industry leaders want scientists to engage in fundamental research not applied research.
行业领袖希望科学家从事基础性研究，而非应用性研究。
Our constitution embodies all the fundamental principles of democracy.
我们的宪法体现了民主的所有基本原则。
PRIMARY
You use primary to describe something that is very important.
最初的、主要的，表示在进展顺序中居于首位。
例句：
A distinction should be made between the primary and secondary tasks.
要区别主要的和次要的任务。
I don't think young people's primary aim in life is to get drunk.
我觉得年轻人生活的主要目标并不是一醉方休。
2.chuckle giggle grin jeer laugh sneer这一组词都和“笑”有关，而且之间的差别也比较明显。
CHUCKLE
When you chuckle you laugh quietly.
(书面语)吃吃的笑，抿嘴笑，轻声笑
多指因得意或领会到某事中的趣味而暗自发笑。
例句：
I could hear him chuckling to himself as he read his book.
他看书时，我能听见他在轻声发笑。
The banker chuckled and said 'Of course not.'
银行家暗自发笑并说道：“当然不。”
He chuckled at her forthrightness.
她的直率让他暗自发笑。
GIGGLE
If someone giggles they laugh in a childlike way because they are amused nervous or embarrassed.
咯咯地笑，痴笑，傻笑
多指女人和孩子由于紧张、被逗乐、尴尬时所发出的笑声。
例句：
The children couldn't stop giggling at the teacher's high-pitched voice.
教师的嗓音很高，孩子们都不禁咯咯地笑起来。
I was so nervous I got the giggles.
我很紧张，不禁傻笑起来。
GRIN
When you grin you smile broadly.
露齿而笑
指人因高兴、满足、轻蔑等咧开嘴露齿地笑。
例句：
He grins delighted at the memory.
想到往事，他开心地咧嘴笑了起来。
Sarah tried several times to catch Philip's eye but he just grinned at her.
萨拉几次想引起菲利普的注意，但是他只是冲她咧嘴笑了笑。
They grinned with pleasure when I gave them the sweets.
当我给他们糖果时，他们高兴地咧开嘴笑了。
JEER
To jeer at someone means to say or shout rude and insulting things to them to show that you do not like or respect them.
讥笑，嘲笑
其同义词是mock，通常以jeer at词组使用。
例句：
Do not jeer at the mistakes or misfortunes of others.
不要嘲笑别人的错误或不幸。
Marchers jeered at white passers-by but there was no violence nor any arrests.
游行者奚落路过的白人，但没有发生暴力事件，也没有人被逮捕。
His motorcade was jeered by angry residents.
他的车队遭到愤怒的当地居民的嘲讽。
LAUGH
When you laugh you make a sound with your throat while smiling and show that you are happy or amused. People also sometimes laugh when they feel nervous or are being unfriendly.
笑，大笑，
用于一般的笑或出声的大笑。
例句：
We tried to laugh the girl out of that slight accident.
我们试图以谈笑的方式使女孩忘掉那起小事故。
He was about to offer an explanation but she was beginning to laugh.
他正要解释，她却笑起来了。
He laughed with pleasure when people said he looked like his dad.
人们说他长得像父亲时，他乐得大笑起来。
不过，laugh还有另一个意思：“嘲笑；讥笑”，与jeer同义，通常是laugh at：
If people laugh at someone or something they mock them or make jokes about them.
例句：
I thought they were laughing at me because I was ugly.
我觉得他们嘲笑我是因为我长得丑。
She wanted to laugh at the melodramatic way he was acting.
他戏剧化的夸张架势使她忍不住想笑。
SNEER
If you sneer at someone or something you express your contempt for them by the expression on your face or by what you say.
冷笑，嘲笑
指以语言、表情和声调表示轻蔑或嘲弄。
例句：
There is too great a readiness to sneer at anything the Opposition does.
对反对党的任何举动都想加以嘲笑的心理过于急切了。
If you go to a club and you don't look right you're sneered at.
如果你去夜总会却穿得不合时宜，人家会笑你的。
Most critics have sneered at the movie calling it dull and cheaply made.
大多数批评家都嘲笑这部电影，称其无聊、制作低劣。
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