词组 | whilst/while |
释义 | whilst/while 【问】 查英汉词典,得知whilst=while。但不知它们有无区别。 【答】 whilst主要用于英国英语,而且没有while用得那么广泛。连词whilst可引导时间状语从句、让步状语从句和对比从句: 1. I didn’t want to live at home whilst I was at university. (EED) 在我读大学的时候,不愿意住在家里。 2. Whilst these cars are economical at a steady 56 mph,they perform badly in traffic.(EED) 尽管这些汽车在稳定的每小时56英里的速度上是省油的,但它们实际运行时性能却很糟。 3. My brother bought his camera from a friend,whilst I bought mine from a shop. (RBE) 我兄弟的照相机是从一个朋友手里买来的,而我的照相机却是从商店买来的。 4. Secondly,we note that in the first and third cases the phenomena were very slight andmight easily have escaped notice,whilst in the second case they produced a negative re-sult. (CBSE) 其次我们注意到,在第一例和第三例中,那些现象是微不足道的,非常容易被忽视.而在第二例中则产生了否定的结果。 赵振才 编著.英语常见问题解答大词典.哈尔滨:黑龙江人民出版社.1998.第1311页. |
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