考研英语词汇复习（30）： 表示“尽管”意思的短语

考研英语词汇复习（30）

 

                                                                                              表示“尽管”意思的短语

 

                              佳中

 

 in spite of

despite

notwithstanding

  

 这组词都可表示“尽管……”。in spite of普通用语，语气较强；despite 语气较弱，常用于文体。Notwithstanding仅用于出现不利情况。

 

1) In spite of/Despite its good performance, the instrument is too complicated and expensive to be generally introduced.

          （尽管性能良好,但这种仪器过于复杂、太昂贵，不能广泛推广。）

2）In spite of/Despite their many differences of temperament and of literary perspective, Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Melville, and Whitman share certain beliefs.

            (尽管他们在气质上和文化修养上有许多不同之处,爱默生、梭罗、霍桑、麦尔维尔和惠特曼有着一些共同的信仰。)

3) Despite/In spite of its wide distribution, carbon constitutes only 0.19 per cent of the earth’s crust.

           （尽管碳的分布很广,但碳只构成地壳的百分之零点一九）。

4) Notwithstanding/Despite her parents’ strong opposition, Mary married the poor young man.

           （尽管她父母的强烈反对,玛丽还是嫁给了那个贫穷的小伙子。）

 

for all

with all   

 

      多用于书面语，有表示比较强的语气。

 

1) For all his learning, he has little experience in practical work.

          （尽管他很有学识,但他实际工作的经验很少。）

2) For all my efforts, I had no success is convincing him of my point of view. He always has his own opinion on the problems.

          （尽管我作了很大努力，我没有能成功地使他信服的我的观点。对问题他总是有自己看法。）

 

       3) With all his achievements, he is very modest and never shows off in front of others.

          （尽管他有很大成就,他非常谦虚,从不在他人面前炫耀自己。）

4) With all his genius, man is still unable to master one of the major forces in his life — the weather.

           （尽管人类很聪明，但人类仍无法掌握生活中的一大要素,—— 天气。）