英语小知识：英语中短语结构不少，一般短语的意思大致等同于其组成成分基本词义的组合，但有的英语短语结构的意思与大家从字面含义的理解不同， 由于这类短语常常可能带有某些特定的文化色彩。
high school 高等学校 中学
black tea 红茶
strong [weak] tea 浓[淡]茶]
a white Christmas 有雪的圣诞
a white day 吉日
a white night 不眠的一夜
whole milk 全脂乳
service station服务站
service station
Rest room 休息室
在美国英语中，rest room是浴室、卫生间的委婉说法
汉语中的休息室应译为英语中的sitting room 或 lobby。
副词
副词是修饰动词，形容词或其他副词的一类词。如：
He is very strong.
I love you very much.
He has finished the work completely well.
注意：very作为副词用时修饰形容词和副词， 另外，very还可以用作形容词： e.g. The car exploded before my very eyes.
Much 一般修饰动词：e.g. Things havent changed much; 修饰过去分词： e.g. He is much loved by his family. 修饰形容词/副词的比较级：e.g. The exam is much easier than expected. 修饰形容词/副词的最高级：e.g. The film is much the best thing he has played in.
有一些特别的副词在考试中出现的频率也是较高的：pretty, dead, still
在英语文章中作为基本词语的副词出现的频率较高，如下文：
Why is the Native Language Learnt So Well *
How does it happen that children learn their mother tongue so well? When we compare them with adults learning a foreign language, we oftenfind this interesting fact. A little child without knowledge or experience oftensucceeds in a complete mastery of the language. A grown-up person with fully1 developed mental powers, in most case, may end up with a faulty and inexact command. What accounts for this difference?
Despite other explanations, the real answer in my opinion lies partlyin the child himself, partly in the behavior of the people around him. In the first place, the time of learning the mother tongue is the most favorable of all, namely, the first years of life. A child hears it spoken from morning till night and, what is more important, always in its genuine form, with the right pronunciation, right intonation2, right use of words and right structure. He drinks in all the words and expressions, which come to him in a flash, ever-bubbling spring. There is no resistance: there is perfect assimilation.
形容词/副词的比较级结构和最高级结构：
比较级：more important/ more frequently
最高级：most favorable/ most economically
同级比较：as..as../the same..as.. /not so...as
e.g. This apple is as big as that one.
e.g. They work as hard as ever.
e.g. I study at the same school as she .
e.g. The idea is not so silly as it sounds.
比较级：more....
e.g. He always thinks that he is more important than we .
e.g. This kind of accident happens more frequently than that kind .
提示：than是起比较用途的连词，其后面的省略结构中出现代词的时候应该注意依据比较对象来确定是主格还是宾格，与所省略的助动词的形式。
比较：
e.g. I know you better than he. 我比他更知道你。
e.g. I know you better than him. 同他相比较， 我更知道你。
最高级：
e.g. a most carefully prepared report
e.g. a most important city
