標(biāo)題: Historic or Historical? [打印本頁] 作者: 藍(lán)絲巾1 時間: 2016-3-3 20:11 標(biāo)題: Historic or Historical?
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Question: I am not sure about the difference between 'historical' and 'historic'. Could you please tell me how to use the two words correctly? Thank you. (Way)
Way 想知道 historic 和 historical 這兩個詞的區(qū)別。這兩個詞都是形容詞,，而且都有“歷史的”意思,，那區(qū)別到底是什么呢？
Answer:
Well, historical is a very general word. Any single thing, or group of things, that are related to history, can be described as historical. Here are two people talking about their travel plans.
Examples:
We’ll spend the afternoon visiting the historical buildings in the old town. Then we’ll have lunch.
How long does it take to get there?
Nearly 4 hours. Don’t forget to bring something to read.
I will – I’ve got a couple of historical novels I want to finish.
Oh, historical fiction? I like that too.
So while historical is used very generally, the word historic has a very specific sense. We say something is historic when we want to emphasise that it is very special, important, unique or unforgettable in our history.
Both! We can talk about historic days, historic meetings, historic places, historic moments. Here’s a tour guide to give us some examples.
Example:
And here are the steps from which the president made his historic announcement. And at the top of the steps, the historic silver gate is over 400 years old. It’s the only one of its kind that survives today.
上面例子中提到了一個歷史性的公告 a historic announcement， 還有發(fā)表這個公告的地點(diǎn)一扇歷史性的銀門 a historic silver gate,。 好了,，我們來總結(jié)一下這兩個單詞的使用方法：在使用這兩個詞的時候，記�,。�historical 來描述一般的歷史事件或與歷史有關(guān)的東西,；用 historic 來形容一個具體的歷史事件。
Yes. Historical is general, historic is specific. Or you can look at it this way: if something is historical, it happened in the past. If something is historic, it happened in the past and it’s very important.