quite

单词辨析:

quite very 【导航词义:非常】
quite adv. 相当,非常

〔辨析、例证〕

1、可直接修饰 like, enjoy, agree 之类动词和某些过去分词(位置在其之前),而 very 不可以。

She quite likes him, but not enough to marry him.

她相当喜欢他,但还没到嫁给他的程度。

Now she quite enjoys her new job.

现在她很喜欢自己的新工作。

He is quite drunk.

他醉得一塌糊涂。

2、在英国英语中,修饰形容词或副词时为减弱语,即减弱所修饰词的程度,语气弱于 very,一般译为“比较”、“还算”,但在美国英语中则为加强语,等于 very。

The room is quite comfortable.

〈英〉这个房间比较舒适。

He works quite hard.

〈英〉他工作还算努力。

The food here is quite good.

〈美〉这里的饭菜很不错。

She's doing quite well at college.

〈美〉她在上大学,成绩非常好。

3、用来修饰作定语的形容词时,通常置于不定冠词之前:

We had quite an enjoyable holiday.

我们的假期过得很愉快。

Richard is quite a good player.

理查德是个相当不错的球员。

very adv. 很,非常

〔辨析、例证〕

1、修饰形容词或副词时为加强语(可与美国英语中的 quite 换用)。

She works very hard.

她相当喜欢他,但还没到嫁给他的程度。

Now she quite enjoys her new job.

她工作非常努力。

He was very unhappy when he lost his dog.

他的狗丢了后,他非常难受。

This story is very interesting.

这个故事很有趣。

2、修饰 like, enjoy 之类动词时要用 very much,但位置应在动词的宾语之后。

They like Spanish very much.

他们非常喜欢西班牙语。

Jim enjoys sandwiches very much.

吉姆非常喜欢三明治。

相关例句:

Something here is not quite right

这里有什么地方不太对劲。

Things have changed quite a bit

情况发生了相当大的变化。

I felt quite bitter about it at the time

当时我对这件事感到相当怨愤。

If I've hurt your feelings, it was quite without intention.

如果我伤害了你的感情,那完全不是故意的。

And at the beginning, I didn't quite understand what all this was about

我起初不太明白这一切究竟是怎么回事。

I was doing quite well, but I wasn't earning a lot of money

我干得还算不错,可是挣的钱却不算多。