词组 | high |
释义 | tail • high - New York is full of tall buildings. (Not *high*) - The highest mountains in the world are in the Himalayas. (preferable to tallest) - The redwood is a tall tree. (Not *high*) - The tree hasn't grown very tall yet. (i.e. in relation to what one expects of it) - That shelf is too high to reach. (Not *tall*) (we use tall to describe things we can see from top to bottom and that are big vertically, and often narrow, compared with others of the same type: a tall man, a tall tree, a tall building; we use high to mean 'reaching a point above the normal level': a high mountain, a high wall, a high fence) - It's hard to find suitable ready-made clothes if you're very tall. (Not *high*) (tall for people) - These prices are too high. (Not *tall*) (high prices, high rents, high costs, etc.) |
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