一日一词:对等的EQUIVALENT

EQUIVALENT

1. 英英释义:someone or something that has the same size, value, importance, or meaning as someone or something else 

例句:I am from Shanxi, China, the Chinese geographical equivalent of Ohio. 


2. 为什么选这个词? 

如果你认识“equal”,掌握“equivalent”就不在话下了。“equivalent”可以是形容词也可以是名词,我们今天学习它的名词用法。“equivalent”在字典上的释义是“等同物”“对应物”,我们可以在口语或者写作中,用它来介绍他人可能不熟悉的概念或事物。


比如,你的老家是山西,对中国不熟悉的美国人可能没什么概念。想要让他快速对山西的地理位置有所了解,你可以说: I am from Shanxi, China, the Chinese geographical equivalent of Ohio.(“我来自中国山西,在地理上相当于美国的俄亥俄州。”) 


这就是“equivalent”好用之处,它能够帮助我们快速解释一件事的大概,让沟通更高效。当我们想表示“A 是 B 的对应物”“A 相当于 B”时就可以用到它。除了在介绍自己的老家时用“equivalent”屡试不爽外,在介绍一些中国的品牌、机构、现象的时候都可以用“equivalent”。 


比如: 

滴滴就是“the Chinese equivalent of Uber/Lyft”; 

微博就是“the Chinese equivalent of Twitter”; 

京东就是“the Chinese equivalent of Amazon”; 

《梁祝》就是“the Chinese equivalent of Romeo and Juliet”

深圳的南山区或者北京的中关村就是“the Chinese equivalent of Silicon Valley”


从这几个例子可以看出,“equivalent”背后其实是一种换位思维,用对方较为熟悉的概念来帮助他们认识新事物。常见的格式是在 equivalent 前加一个形容词,表示“A在某方面与B相对应”。 


《经济学人》在一篇讲俄罗斯电信的文章中就用到了两次 equivalent: Mr Durov, who founded VK, Russia’s equivalent of Facebook, before emigrating, says Telegram has seen no significant drop inengagement.(一句话介绍了 VK 是什么:VK 就是俄罗斯的 Facebook。) 


Russia has no equivalent of China’s automatic “great firewall”—it updates its blacklists manually—but such a possibility is “growing ever closer”, wrote Sarkis Darbinyan ofRoskomsvoboda, a digital-rights group.(如果某物并没有对应物,我们就可以说xx has no equivalent of…) 


个人拓展:

搭配:have/ There is / It is/ direct /exact /nearest /approximate/ modern equivalent

//the Chinese equivalent of

//xx has no equivalent of

//the civil administrator of the West Bank and his equivalent in Gaza 职位对等

Even the cheapest car costs the equivalent of 70 years’ salary for a government worker. 句型

You can use equivalent to emphasize the great or severe effect of something

His party has just suffered the equivalent of a near-fatal heart attack.比喻 句型

Studying advanced physics is the equivalent of banging your head against the wall. 比喻 句型

背诵:

同义词:equivalent, equal, counterpart, correspondent, twin, peer, parallel

This word has no equivalent in French.

There is no English equivalent for ‘bon appétit’ so we have adopted the French expression.

I am from Shanxi, China, the Chinese geographical equivalent of Ohio. 

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