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VOA慢速英语:South Africa Bets on 2010 World Cup for Hope, Heroes
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2.And we are quite happy with what we have seen thus far.
fairly,rather,quite和pretty都可作“相当地”解。所表程度的强弱,依次为:rather (pretty)→quite→fairly。
fairly意为“有点、还算”,只能修饰形容词和副词,常用在nice,good,well,bravely等容易引人产生快意的形容词或副词之前。 rather意为“相当”,除可用来修饰形容词、副词外,还可以与名词、动词连用。 rather常用在bad,ugly,cold等容易使人产生不快的形容词或副词之前。 rather常含有“过于”的意思(而fairly含有“正好”的意思)。当然对同一件事,不同的说话人会有不同的感受和看法。 quite意为“相当地,颇”,除修饰形容词、副词外,还可以修饰动词和名词;quite用在complete,exhausted,impossible,perfect,right,wrong,full,empty,all right,sure,certain等没有程度差别的词语前面时,意为“完全地,全部地”。 pretty意为“相当,非常”,可以用来修饰形容词、副词,也可以用来修饰名词。在用法上只有rather一词能和形容词或副词的比较级及too连用,其他三个词则不能;quite和rather都可用在冠词前,也可和动词连用,pretty和fairly则不能;quite,fairly和rather均可放在a/an后面,但只有当名词前有形容词时,才能这样用。
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