大學(xué)英語(yǔ)相似詞辨析(116):one… the other,the one… the other

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one… the other,the one… the other
    這一對(duì)詞組都用于指兩樣事物的場(chǎng)合,但涵義有所不同。
    One…the other是“一個(gè)…另一個(gè)…”; the one…the other是“前者…后者…”,相當(dāng)于the former…the latter。
    試對(duì)比它們?cè)谙吕牟煌瑑?nèi)涵和使用場(chǎng)合:examda.com
    I have two sisters; one is twenty and the other is eighteen.
    我有兩個(gè)妹妹,一個(gè)是二十歲,另一個(gè)是十八歲。
    Both my sisters are abroad; one in Burma and the other in Indonesia.
    我的兩個(gè)妹妹都在國(guó)外,一個(gè)在緬甸,另一個(gè)在印尼。考試大
    We have two cats,a white one and a black one;the one is larger than the other.
    我有兩只貓,一只白的和一只黑的,白的比黑的那只長(zhǎng)得大。examda.com
    值得注意的是,the one現(xiàn)在是指前者,the other是指后者,而從前卻恰好顛倒過(guò)來(lái),the one指后者,the cther指前者。