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1、感恩口语thank, appreciate和grateful的不同用法感恩口语:thank, appreciate和grateful的不同用法 如果你只知道用thank表达感谢,那你就真的out啦!今天小编就带大家来看看英语中不同的感谢表达:thank, appreciate和grateful,以及它们用法上的区别。 thank (adj.) thankful (unthankful); (n.) thankfulness thank作为及物动词,常用搭配是thank sb (for sth / for doing sth),如: She said goodbye and thanked us
2、 for coming. thank表示感谢,习惯上只接人作宾语,而不能接事作宾语: 正:Thank you for your help. 误:Thank your help. 另外的用法: 1. have sb to thank for (doing) sth 归功于,如: I have my parents to thank for my success. 2. thank your lucky stars 感谢你的幸运之星,口语中用于表达幸运,尤其是躲过了不愉快或危险的事。如: Just thank your lucky stars you werent in the house at
3、the time. appreciate (adj.) appreciative (inappreciative); (n.) appreciation appreciate作为感激解释时是及物动词,常用搭配:appreciate doing sth,后跟动名词或代词it代指的事情。习惯上只能接事作宾语(object),而不能接人作宾语: 正:Id appreciate some help. 误:Id appreciate you for some help. appreciate也指欣赏,有对某事物有一定的兴趣及认识的含义,如: In time youll appreciate the be
4、auty and subtlety of this language. 此外,在商业书信来往中,appreciate一字出现率颇高,但其意和上面提及的欣赏音乐有所不同;如: We greatly appreciate your getting the goods to us at such short notice. 在这句里,We greatly appreciate.和Thank you for.含意相同。 appreciate的第三个意思是理解,如 I fully appreciate your concern. We will do all in our power to help.
5、appreciate的另一用法是指某东西增值,是不及物动词,如: Their investments have appreciated over the years. 大家有没有留意到appreciate解作升值时是不需接宾语(object)的? grateful ungrateful; (n.) gratitude (ingratitude) grateful没有相应的动词,它的常用搭配是be grateful to sb for sth,或者后面跟不定式或that从句,如: I am extremely grateful to all the teachers for their help
6、. She seems to think I should be grateful to have a job at all. He was grateful that she didnt tell his parents about the incident. 另外,grateful也可用于表达请求,这种用法在书信或者其他正式场合用得比较多,如: I would be grateful if you could send the completed form back as soon as possible. 除了上述的用法区别之外,thank, appreciate和grateful在表达
7、情感上也有略微的区别: When you are grateful to someone, you can sometimes feel a little beholden to them. It creates a feeling of owingness. 也就是说grateful带有一点义务的性质。 而另一方面,When we appreciate someone or something there is a feeling of ending. There is a feeling of finality. We do not feel the need to pay this person back. 当我们用appreciate有点意味着这件事的结束,不需要再做什么回报。 另外,oblige (vt.) 一词也有使感激的意思,如: Im much obliged to you. 我非常感谢你。 不过oblige更常见的含义是迫使,如: Parents are obliged by law to send their children to school.