| 单词 |
affect |
| 例句 |
affect verb | verb
1 verb 1.•this development may have affected the judge's decision:have an effect on, influence, act on, work on, have an impact on, impact | change, alter, modify, transform, form, shape, sway, bias. 2.•he was visibly affected by the experience:move, touch, make an impression on, hit (hard), tug at someone's heartstrings | upset, trouble, distress, disturb, agitate, shake (up). 3.•the disease affected his lungs:attack, infect | hit, strike.EASILY CONFUSED WORDS affect, effect Both affect and effect are both verbs and nouns, but only effect is common as a noun, usually meaning 'a result, consequence, impression, etc.': •my father's warnings had no effect on my adventurousness (The noun affect is restricted almost entirely to psychology.) As verbs, they are both familiar, but often confused. Affect means 'to produce an effect upon': •what you eat can affect your mood. The verb affect, except when used in contexts involving feelings, often serves as a vague substitute for more exact verbs and should therefore be used sparingly. Effect means 'to bring about': •the negotiators effected an agreement despite many difficulties.These notes clear up confusion between similar-looking pairs.
2 verb 1.•he deliberately affected a Republican stance:assume, take on, adopt, embrace, espouse. 2.•Paul affected an air of injured innocence:pretend, feign, fake, simulate, make a show of, make a pretense of, sham | informal put on, make like. |
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