最“Chinglish”的10个单词坑,你踩过几个?
1. Convenient:方便的——你方便吗?
【常见错误】Are you convenient?
【正确说法】Is it convenient for you?
Are you free?
2. health和body:健康、身体——易错为body
【常见错误】Vegetables are good for your body.
【正确说法】Vegetables are good for your health.
Vegetables are healthy.
3. climb和hike:爬山
【常见错误】Let’s climb a mountain.
【正确说法】Let’s hike.
Let’s hike up a mountain.
(climb这个爬山,需要手脚并用,我们所说爬山很少如此)
4. live和stay:住
【常见错误】I live in a hotel.
【正确说法】I stay in a hotel.
(短住用stay,长居才用live)
5. play和hang out:一起玩
【常见错误】Play with us
【正确说法】Hang out with us
6. Chinese:中国人
【常见错误】I am a Chinese.
【正确说法】I am Chinese.
(一般-ese结尾的国籍名词,不用a+名词指“某国人”)
7. drink和eat:喝汤
【常见错误】I’m drinking my soup.
【正确说法】I am eating my soup.
(浓汤用eat,可drink的汤,基本清如水)
8. one by one和one on one:一对一
【常见错误】We offer one by one lessons.
【正确说法】We offer one-on-one lessons.
9. try:试一试
【常见错误】Have a try.
【正确说法】Give it a go/try/shot.
(这个属于语法表达没有错,但不符合使用习惯的那类。)
10. so-so: 一般般
【常见错误】Just so-so.
【正确说法】It’s OK. / It’s not bad.
(这又是一个“我们很少这么说话”的“错误”)