成人高考高中起点英语同义词解析(三)
company表示“临时性的结伙”,也表示“性的组织(这时汉译为”公司“或”剧团“)
A company of travellers are (is) expected to arrive soon.
预计有一伙旅客不久便要到达。
It is not uncommon to hear that a shipping company has made a claim for the cost of salvaging a sunken ship.
航运公司为打捞沉船的费用而提出要求,这并非奇闻。
party在表示一群人时,通常指“为某一目的而聚集一起的临时组织或聚会”
Armed with the new machine, a search party went into the cave hoping to find buried treasure.
一个探测队以这台新的探宝器为装备,进了山洞,以期找到掩藏的财宝。
Geoffrey Hampden has a large circle of friends and is very popular at parties.
杰弗里·汉普顿交际很广,在社交聚会上深受欢迎。
band表示“为一共同目的组织在一起的团体”,与含有随便聚合一起的company 相比,band 包含“组织严密”的意思
Six hundred years ago, Sir John Hawkwood arrived in Italy with a hand of soldiers and settled near Florence.
六百年前,约翰·霍克伍德爵士率领一帮兵士来到意大利,并在佛罗伦萨附近驻扎下来。
gang指贬义的“帮”
He finds politics a dirty game, and only enters them reluctantly because he knows that at the very least he and his friends are better than the present gang.
他发现政治是一种肮脏的把戏,所以只是出于不得已才参与政治,这是因为他知道,起码他和自己的朋友们比这帮人要强得多。
Don't get mixed with that gang; they spend too much time drinking and gambling.
不要和那一伙人为伍,他们在喝酒与赌博上花的时间太多了
group band company party gang faction
都含“集合在一起的人或动物”的意思。
group 指“以任何目的结合在一起、或 自然上有联系的一群人或动物”, 如:
a group of students
一群学生。
band 指“为某一目的聚集在一起的人或高级动物, 通常有一头领”, 如:
a band of thieves
一伙贼。
company 指“为某一目的而聚集在一起的人”, 如:
a company of travellers
一旅行团。
party 指“以某一组织形式、为共同目的而聚集在一起的人”, 如:
He saw a party of schoolchildren getting off the bus.
他看见一群学生下汽车。
gang 指“一群以不良企图或罪 恶目的而聚集在一起的人”, 如:
a gang of murders
一群杀人犯。
faction 指“政党、宗教、政府内部的宗派、小团体”, 如:
a petty faction of people
小团体的人。
Compare usually takes the preposition to when it refers to the activity of describing the resemblances between unlike things:
当它涉及描述不同事物相似性的活动时,Compare常用介词 to:
He compared her to a summer day.
他将她比为夏天。