2024年3月10日发(作者：小米10二手能卖多少钱)

Word Story

英语话廊

“editor

[编辑]

” before we had the

word “edit.” “Edit” was formed

from “editor.” Sometimes

these back-formations sound

a little silly: Bulldozers

[推土机]

bulldoze, butlers

[男管家]

butle and

burglers

[号手]

burgle.

Another way to make

words in English is to take

the first letters of something

and squish them together. So

National Aeronautics and Space

Administration

[美国国家航空航天局]

becomes NASA. And of course

you can do this with anything,

OMG!

So it doesn’t matter how

silly the words are. They

can be really good words of

English. “Absquatulate

[逃走]

” is a

perfectly good word of English.

”Mugwump

[中立者]

” is a perfectly

good word of English. So the

words don’t have to sound normal,

they can sound really silly.

Why should you make

words? You should make words

because every word is a chance

to express your idea and get

your meaning across. And

new words grab

[抓住]

people’s

attention. They get people to

focus on what you’re saying

and that gives you a better

chance to get your meaning

across. You can make a new

word right now. English has

no age limit. Go ahead, start

making words today, send them

to me, and I will put them in

my online dictionary, Wordnik.

Thank you so much.

Crazy English Youth 2018.04

Opinion Of,

Opinion On,

or Opinion

About?

Opinion Of、Opinion On

和 Opinion About 辨析

⊙

By

What do you believe the difference is? Opinion

of values an opinion, opinion on emphasizes

[强调]

the

topic of an opinion, and opinion about emphasizes

the opinion itself. All three are fair ways to use the

word opinion, but there are some major differences

in how each phrase is typically used.

Opinion Of

意见，判断

Opinion of is the most common phrase

among the three. Your opinion of something is

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your estimation

[评价]

of its quality or worth. This phrase indicates how much

esteem

[看法]

someone holds for a topic.

When using opinion of, you’d typically see an adjective before opinion.

For example, “Our community has a good opinion of the city council

[市议会]

.”

The phrase opinion of indicates how the subject

[主语]

(our community) feels

toward the object (the city council).

词组

opinion of

最常用，它表明对某事的评判，对某事好坏或价值的判断，表

明对事情的态度，因此，

opinion of

前多加表示好坏的形容词，如

good

、

bad

等。

例：

Our community has a good opinion of the city council.

（我们社区对市议

会有不错的看法。）

Opinion On

对……的看法

Opinion on is only moderately used. Your opinion on something describes

your ideas or beliefs regarding a particular matter or topic. For example, “What’s

your opinion on the new tax law?” Usually you’d use this phrase to ask for

someone’s opinion on a broad topic where many different opinions can be

made. It’s the phrasing that can open up debates.

词组

opinion on

表明对某件事的看法或见解，涉及到对具体事的具体意见。

例：

What’s your opinion on the new tax law?

（你对新税法有什么看法？）

Opinion About

对……的意见

Opinion about is the least common phrase among the three. It’s often

used to express when someone doesn’t have an opinion, as in “I don’t have an

opinion about this.”

Both opinion on and opinion about are similar because they refer to the

qualities of a topic. The preposition on emphasizes the topic of the opinion a

bit more than the opinion itself. For example, “Chris has a strong opinion on

taxes.” Here, taxes is emphasized as a topic for an opinion. The preposition

about emphasizes the opinion itself a bit more than the topic of the opinion.

“We have strong opinions about food safety,” emphasizes opinions rather than

the topic of food safety.

词组

opinion about

在三者中用得最少。尽管它也表示

对某事的具体看法，但它多用于表达某人对某事没有看法。

词组

opinion on

和

opinion about

的含义相似。前者的

侧重点是谈论的话题，而不是看法本身，而后者更强调看

法的本身，而不是涉及的具体事情。

例：

I don’t have an opinion about this.

（我对这事

没想法。）

Opinion Of?

Opinion On?

Opinion About?

Chris has a strong

opinion on

taxes.

（克里斯对税

收有强烈的看法。）

We have strong

opinions about food safety.

（我们

对食品安全有强烈的看法。）

2018.04

（高中版）

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