answer

['ɑ:nsə]

词形变化: answered answered answering answers

  • 正在加载“answer”的释义
例句用法 短语词组 近反义词 海词讲解 英英解释

1.

I agree but I can't answer for my colleagues.

我同意,但是我不能代表我的同事们。

2.

Have you had an answer to your letter?

你的信是否有了回信?

3.

He has had no answer to his letter.

他的信没收到回信。

4.

This plan has not answered, we must find a better one.

这个计划未成功,我们必须另立一个更好的计划。

5.

He answered that he knew nothing about it.

他答复说关于此事他一无所知。

6.

Do you know the answer to this question?

你知道这道题的答案吗?

【近义词】

【反义词】

  • question n.问题,疑问;v.询问... inquire vt.询问,查究;vi....
  • inquiry n.调查,询问;=enq... ask v.询问,请求

【词源解说】

直接源自古英语的adnswaru,and(反对)+swaru(誓言),意为发誓言,从而反驳。

【词义辨析】

answer reply respond retort return
answer: 常用词,指用书面、口头或行动对他人的请求、询问、质问等作出回答或反应。
reply: 较正式用词,较少用于口语。侧重经过考虑的较正式答复。
respond: 正式用词,指即刻的,以口头或行动对外来的号召、请求或刺激等作出回答或响应。
retort: 指对不同意见、批评或控诉作出迅速、有力的回答,即“反驳”。
return: 正式用词,从本义“归来,回去”引申作“回答、答辨”讲时,含反驳或反唇相讥之意。

【词语用法】

  1. answer(to)the letter,answer(to)the question,answer(for)the purpose等常用格式中,习惯将to或for等介词省略掉,但是注意reply to the letter中的to不可以省略;
  2. answer有时指“答复……的内容”。
    • I have your letter, but as I am very busy, I cannot answer it at present.
      句中的主语已经在回复信了,但还说没有办法answer
    有时,answer指“报告收到”,reply指“答复……的内容”。
    • I answered your letter by sending a postcard last Monday and have since been waiting for time to reply to it.
  3. 同reply比较,answer有时指“中肯的答复”。
    • Your reply is not an answer.
      你的回答不中肯。
  4. answered有时指“把……作为答复”。
    • He answered her not a word.
      他连一个词都没有回复她。
  5. answer后可接that从句或另接宾语。
    • He answered that he could not go.
      他回复说自己去不了了。
    • He answered me that he would not go.
      他回复我说他去不了了。
  6. 在商业回信的开头,常用“In answer to your letter ...”的格式。
  • 错句举例与错句分析

    错句:This is the answer to some of their previously inexplicable behaviour.

    纠正:This is the explanation for their previously inexplicable behaviour.

    翻译:这是对之前他们的一些无法解释的行为的解释。

    分析:answer没有“解释”的意思。

名词 answer:

1.

a statement (either spoken or written) that is made to reply to a question or request or criticism or accusation

同义词:reply,response

2.

a statement that solves a problem or explains how to solve the problem

同义词:solution,result,resolution,solvent

3.

the speech act of replying to a question

4.

the principal pleading by the defendant in response to plaintiff's complaint; in criminal law it consists of the defendant's plea of `guilty' or `not guilty' (or nolo contendere); in civil law it must contain denials of all allegations in the plaintiff's complaint that the defendant hopes to controvert and it can contain affirmative defenses or counterclaims

5.

a nonverbal reaction

动词 answer:

1.

react verbally

同义词:reply,respond

2.

respond to a signal

3.

give the correct answer or solution to

4.

understand the meaning of

同义词:resolve

5.

give a defence or refutation of (a charge) or in (an argument)

6.

be liable or accountable

7.

be sufficient; be adequate, either in quality or quantity

同义词:suffice,do,serve

8.

match or correspond

9.

be satisfactory for; meet the requirements of or serve the purpose of

10.

react to a stimulus or command

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