陳國詩的英文分享平台

關鍵字彙：

advocate/ auspices/ conduce to/ conducive/ instrumental/ mainstay/ patron/ prop/ proponent/ recourse/ urge

1. 正式用法中，「有助於…」可用conduce to或conducive (to)。假如強調某人對於某件事情「有幫助的」，用instrumental (in)：

•Wealth does not always conduce to happiness.

•Plenty of exercise is conducive to good health.

•Mr. Heston was instrumental in organizing the club.

•I was instrumental in catching the criminal.

2. 做為「支柱」的人或物可用mainstay或prop，人在困境中的「助援」 叫recourse，但這種助援有時雖不能說不好，但恐怕也是一項不得不然的無奈選擇：

•After the father's death the son became the mainstay of the family.

•The farmer is glad that his son will be the prop of his old age.

•The boy's only recourse was to appeal to his mother for help.

•The sick man had recourse to drugs to lessen his pain.

3. 「贊助」可用auspices，它經常用在under the auspices of片語中，「贊助者」（個人或團體）可用patron：

•This concert has been arranged under the auspices of an affluent businessman.

•The trade exhibition was held under the auspices of the city government.

•Professor Wang was the most powerful patron of my research project.

4. 「倡導」觀念、計畫等可用advocate或urge，「倡導者」可用proponent：

•I do not advocate protracting compulsory education.

•The senator urged adoption of the housing bill.

•We need more proponents to launch the help-the-poor campaign.