Question:
Do you lay down --- or lie down for a nap before dinner?
如果你没有查询昨天两个问题中关于lay 和 lie 的用法不同,请记住:
Lay means to place or put something or someone somewhere.
Lie means to recline, rest or remain.
如果这两个词的意思分清楚了,可能还会遇到的麻烦是过去式和过去分词:
lie lay have lain
lay laid have laid
所以其实分辨出两个词的意思,再稍微记忆一下分词的区别,就不会有什么问题啦。
另外一组词是effect affect, 我觉得作者讲的也非常清楚:
An effect is an idea or thing --- a scenic effect; what a stunning effect she produces; this will have a bad effect on production. Affect, on the other hand, is a verb meaning to change, influence, move, or pretend --- this will affect production; she affects every strangely; his tears do not affect me; he affected a southern accent after he returned from Georgia. However, and be careful of this, if your verb has the special meaning of bring about, spell it effect --- we shall try to effect(bring about) an improvement in production.
大多数情况下,effect是名词,affect是动词,但是有一种情况例外:在表达bring about 这个意思的时候,一定要用effect.
child's play
something that is easy to do
= a piece of cake