陳國詩的英文分享平台

關鍵字彙：

accede/ acquiesce/ assent/ consent/ demur/ deprecate/ dissent/ dissident/ endorse/ espouse/ exponent/ ratify/ sanction/ unanimous/ versus

1. 正式英文中，「同意」、「應允」建議、計畫、要求等用accede to，這裡的to 是介系詞：

•Don't accede to their unreasonable request.

2. 「批准」、「認可」可用endorse或sanction，若特別指批准條約或契約，用ratify（正式）：

•Civic leaders have endorsed the rehabilitation project.

•The church would not sanction the king's second marriage.

•The Congress agreed to ratify the treaty.

3. 對目標或理念的「支持」，用espouse（正式），理念或信仰的「支持者」（可能亦是實踐者），用exponent：

•He espoused the cause of equal rights for women.

•The psychoanalyst is an exponent of the opinions of Freud.

•Benjamin Franklin is a famous exponent of self-education.

4. 「默許」或「勉強同意」叫acquiesce（正式）：

•She acquiesced in the plans his parents had made for her.

5. 名詞「同意」，用assent或consent：

•Once we have his assent, we can start.

•Mary's parents refused their consent to her marriage.

•Governments should rule only with the consent of the governed.

•Say something, or he will take your silence for consent.

6. 「全體意見一致的」叫unanimous：

•They were unanimous in their determination to win/ in asking for more holidays.

7. 「不同意」可用dissent：

•Do you dissent from what the speaker has said?

•He dissented violently, rejecting compromise.

8. 正式用法中，「反對」用demur或deprecate。另外，公開且經常是強烈的反對者叫dissident：

•They demurred at the idea of not paying.

•Don't demur at her request.

•Such waste of money at a time like this should be deprecated.

•I must deprecate your negative attitude.

•The dissident was exiled for life.

9. 正式英文中（尤其是運動賽事或法律用語），表「與…成為對比」可用介系詞versus：

•The age-old argument about free trade versus protection has emerged again.