在前面给大家讲解单词辨析:Dwell和reside, live, lodge, inhabit, settle的区别的时候,我们提到了,单词辨析在英语学习中的重要性是不能轻易忽略掉的,究其原因,相信大家也比较了解,那就是,在历年的CATTI考试中,翻译实践的部分有些内容实际上考察的就是单词的使用,所以,大家在平时的学习过程中要注意这个问题的,并多积累相关的词汇学习。
有朋友西贝君:Plaintiffs和defendant, complainant的区别,今天我们来给大家讲解一下:文章源自西贝博客-https://qinghe.me/plaintiffs-defendant-complainant.html
相同之处
这几个词当名词用的时候,都有“*告”的意思。文章源自西贝博客-https://qinghe.me/plaintiffs-defendant-complainant.html
不同之处
我们通过不同的例子来具体了解一下:文章源自西贝博客-https://qinghe.me/plaintiffs-defendant-complainant.html
plaintiffs
- n. <律>原告
来看一个来自华盛顿邮报的例子:文章源自西贝博客-https://qinghe.me/plaintiffs-defendant-complainant.html
- The primary argument in the suits is that the president circumvented Congress’s constitutionally protected authority to determine how taxpayer money is spent. 1. Who are the plaintiffs?— Washington Post, "Can Trump’s Wall `Emergency’ Stand Up in Court?: QuickTake," 18 Sep. 2019
- 诉讼中的主要论点是,总统规避了国会宪法保护的权力,以决定纳税人的钱是如何使用的。一。原告是谁?
文章源自西贝博客-https://qinghe.me/plaintiffs-defendant-complainant.html
defendant
- n. 被告
来看一个来自国家评论杂志的例子:文章源自西贝博客-https://qinghe.me/plaintiffs-defendant-complainant.html
- Senators have the same rights as any other citizen to have their voice heard in the nation’s highest court, and mootness arguments are common when defendants change rules to evade judicial review.— David French, National Review, "To Save a Bad Gun Law, Democratic Senators Threaten the Supreme Court," 15 Aug. 2019
- 参议员和任何其他公民一样有权在国家最高法院听取他们的意见,当被告为了逃避司法审查而改变规则时,情绪低落的争论是很常见的。
complainant
- n. 发牢骚的人,原告
来看一个来自纽约时报的例子:文章源自西贝博客-https://qinghe.me/plaintiffs-defendant-complainant.html
- One of the original complainants was Arthur Hu, a Chinese-American software programmer who, using data made public by the school, had painstakingly charted the test scores and academic credentials of black, white and Asian applicants.— New York Times, "Where Does Affirmative Action Leave Asian-Americans?," 30 Aug. 2019
- 最初的“投诉者”之一是华裔软件程序员阿瑟•胡(Arthur Hu),他利用学校公开的数据,煞费苦心地绘制了黑人、白人和亚裔申请人的考试成绩和学历证书。
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