英文之旅

effective用作“（法令等）被施行的”解是美国用法。例如：The order became effective on 4 April.

Our opinion is to the effect that...（我们的意思是…）和His reply is to the effect that...等句子里的to the effect是公文里的陈套语，往往不如省去的好。

educationist（教育家）比educationalist普通。但都不及educator普通。

He has had a college education里的had不可省去。

educate有时用作“付…的教育费用”解。例如：He educated his sisters after their father's death.

editorial作“社论”解主要用在美国，相当于英国的leader或leading article。

city editor在英国指“经济栏编辑”，相当于美国英语financial editor，在美国指“本埠新闻编辑”。

edition并不是相当于edit的抽象名词，如不可说The edition of his father's letters took him two months，该把edition改作editing。

edit不可用作“出版”解，如不可说The Foreign Languages Publishing House in Beijing has edited many books

economy是“节约”或“节省”，是抽象名词。

现在economic作“经济（学）上的”解，economical作“节约的”解，如economic help（经济援助）和economic point of view（经济观点），economical use（节约的用法）和economical meal（节约的一餐）。

eaves原来是单数形式，但现在被用作复数形式，如The eaves have now been finished。