【漫畫英語】A dessert island or a desert island什么鬼？

    在英語中有很多聽起來一樣，但是意思大相徑庭的詞語。下面的漫畫會告訴你即使只是個簡單的拼寫錯誤會造成多么尷尬的效果！
A dessert island or a desert island?
甜品島or 荒島

While the prospect of stranding on a dessert island may sound quite appealing to some, you’d probably be more likely to end up on a desert island after having survived a shipwreck. Similarly to the stationary and stationery confusion, a single letter can make a big difference here. Desert can be used both as a noun and a verb, meaning ‘a waterless, empty area’and ‘to abandon someone’, respectively. A dessert, on the other hand, is the sweet course of a meal.
置身于一座甜品島上的前景可能聽起來對很多人都很有吸引力，但如果是在一起沉船事故中劫后余生的你，可能更希望看到一座荒島。跟stationary 和stationery 的混淆一樣，一個字母的差別意思南轅北轍。Desert可以被用作名詞和動詞，分別是“沙漠，荒地”和“拋棄，丟開”的意思。而dessert則是甜品的意思。
A supermarket isle or a supermarket aisle?
超市島or 超市過道?

There may be no such things as dessert islands, but what about supermarket isles? The homophones isle and aisle are both nouns, with the former referring to an island, and the latter to a passage between rows of seats. Thus, you’d perhaps come across an aisle rather than an isle while doing your grocery shopping.
也許甜品島這樣的地方不存在，但超市島是個什么東東呢？同音異意詞isle和aisle都是名詞，前者指一座島，后者則是指一排排座位之間的過道。因此，當(dāng)你在雜貨店采購的時候，你也許是走在過道上，而非島上。
A gorilla soldier or a guerrilla soldier?
猩猩士兵or 游擊隊員?

Gorillas are not necessarily known for their combative, militant nature, but guerrillas certainly are. Although gorilla can be informally used to describe a person, or more specifically, ‘a heavily built aggressive-looking man’, in a military context, speaking of guerrilla soldiers makes more sense, as it refers to ‘a member of a small independent group taking part in irregular fighting’.
大猩猩并不被人熟知它好戰(zhàn)好斗的本性，但游擊隊卻是。雖然非正式用法，gorilla 可以用以形容一個人，或者更具體的說，“一個外表很有攻擊性的男性”，在軍事定義中，用guerrilla soldiers（游擊隊員）顯然更合適，因為他是指“一個進(jìn)行非正規(guī)戰(zhàn)斗的獨立團(tuán)體的一員”。
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