英语重点词汇详解appreciate用法

英语重点词汇详解appreciate用法

appreciate [əˈpriːʃieɪt] v.欣赏;赏识;重视;感激;感谢;欢迎;理解;意识到;领会

第三人称单数： appreciates现在分词： appreciating过去式：

appreciated过去分词： appreciated

这个词一般不用于进行时。

1. 表示“感激”“赞赏”等，通常为及物动词，其后可接名（代）词、动名词、名词性从句等作宾语，但不能接不定式。如：

I'd appreciate some help.

如果有人帮忙我将非常感激。

Your support is greatly appreciated.

十分感谢你的支持。

[V -ing] I don't appreciate being treated like a

second-class citizen.

我不愿被人当作二等公民。

[VN -ing] We would appreciate you letting us know of any

problems.

如有任何问题，请告诉我们。

We would appreciate confirmation of your refusal of our

invitation to take part.

若您确认拒绝我们的邀请不能参加，我们将感激不尽。

We'd appreciate your leaving as fast as possible.

如果您能尽快离开，我们将不胜感激。

I deeply appreciate your kindness in coming so far to meet

me.

有劳远迎。

I appreciate your kindness but must decline the offer.

雅意心领！

I appreciate your kindness ( but can not accept your gift

or invitation).

你的好意我心领了。

People all appreciate his integrity.

人们都赞赏他的品格。

It is easy to appreciate the craftsmanship of Armani.

阿玛尼的精致工艺很容易博得人们的赞誉。

I really appreciate a good cup of tea. 有好茶一杯，我就真乐在其中了。

I appreciate your giving me so much of your time. 真感激你为我花了这么多时间。

I appreciate being given this opportunity. 非常感谢给了我这个机会。

I appreciate that you have come here so early. 感谢你来得这么早。

其后不直接跟 if 或when引导的从句，若语义上需要接这类从句，需借助 it。（热门考点，常常在改错题中出现）

如：

Thanks, lads. I appreciate it

谢了，哥们儿。我很感激。

Thanks for coming. I appreciate it .

谢谢光临。无限欢迎。

I'd appreciate it if you wouldn't mention it.

如果你不提它，我会很感激。

We really appreciate it when she offered to help. 她来帮忙了，我们十分感激。

I would much appreciate it if you would arrange this for

us. 如果你能替我安排这事，我将非常感激。

I would appreciate it if you paid in cash.

假如你支付现金的话，我会不胜感激。

2. 作“感激、感谢”其后只能接“事”作宾语，而不能接appreciate +人+ for one’s help 结构；若要用类似结构，可考虑用动词thank等。比较：

正：We appreciate your help. 我们感谢你的帮助。

误：We appreciate you for your help.

正：He thanked her for her help. 他感谢她的帮助。

误：He thanked her help.

但是，直接+人作宾语是可以的：

They obviously appreciate you very much

他们显然对你十分感激。

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但是作“重视，赏识，欣赏”讲，可以接人：

Her family doesn't appreciate her.

她的家人不重视她。

3. 理解；意识到；领会；

[VN] What I failed to appreciate was the distance between

the two cities.

我没有意识到这两座城市间的距离。

[V wh-] I don't think you appreciate how expensive it will

be.

我想你不了解它会有多昂贵。

[V that] We didn't fully appreciate that he was seriously

ill.

我们没有充分认识到他的病情很严重。

He appreciates that co-operation with the media is part of

his professional duties.

他懂得与媒体合作是自己工作职责的一部分。

I appreciated the difficulties my father had faced.我了解了父亲曾经面临的困难。

We appreciate that cooking for students is an important job.我们理解，为学生们做饭是份重要的工作。

She never really appreciated the depth and bitterness of

the Irish conflict.

她从来没有真正认识到爱尔兰矛盾的深刻和激烈。

In time you'll appreciate the beauty and subtlety of this

language.

总有一天你会体会到这门语言的优美和微妙之处。

4.增值

Their investments have appreciated over the years.

他们的投资这些年来已经增值。（增值）

They don't have any confidence that houses will appreciate

in value.

他们完全不相信房子会升值。（增值）

5.欣赏

Anyone can appreciate our music.

任何人都能欣赏我们的音乐。（欣赏）

I appreciate your comment.

我欣赏你的意见。

I appreciate your generosity in the matter.

我很欣赏你在这件事上表现出来的宽大胸怀

Only inside do you appreciate the church's true grandeur.

只有深入其中，你才能真正欣赏教堂的富丽堂皇。

You cannot appreciate the difficulty except through

personal experience.

若非亲身经历，岂知其中甘苦。

1. chance to do表示碰巧做某事

If I do chance to find out where she is, I'll inform you

immediately.

要是我真的碰巧发现她的行踪，会立即通知你的。

They chanced to be staying at the same hotel.

他们碰巧住在同一家旅馆。

A man I chanced to meet proved to be a most unusual

character.

我邂逅了一个人，后来发现他是个极为与众不同的家伙。

2. chance doing冒险去做某事，冒着……危险

I stayed hidden; I couldn't chance coming out.

我躲了起来，不能冒险出去。

She chanced climbing the cliff without a safety belt. 她冒险不系安全带去攀爬峭壁。

We’ll have to chance meeting an enemy patrol. 我们不得不冒着可能遇上敌人巡逻兵的危险。