在AEIS培训教材中，有些AEIS考试单词总会让报考新加坡AEIS考试的考生们感到混淆—因为他们跟另外一个词很像，但是其意义完全不同。这里中国AEIS考试服务总结一些经常引起混淆的AEIS考试单词。大家好好掌握。

　　sensible and sensitive

　　sensible与sensitive

　　sensible means ‘practical’ or ‘having good judgement’

　　sensible是明智的

　　sensitive means ‘easily affected by the things people say or do

　　sensitive是敏感的

　　• Come on darling, be sensible and put a coat on. It’s freezing outside.

　　• Don’t be so sensitive - he didn’t say you were fat, it was just a joke.

　　Sympathetic and nervous

　　Sympathetic和nervous

　　Usually we are sympathetic when someone has a problem or is in trouble.

　　我们通常对某人遇到麻烦或者有困难的时候表现的 sympathetic(同情的)。

　　• They were very sympathetic when our house was burgled but they couldn’t do much to help.

　　We don’t use it to mean ‘nice’ or ‘pleasant’

　　我用它不是指好或者舒服。

　　• My uncle is a very sympathetic man.

　　We are nervous in a particular situation, like an exam. We don’t generally use nervous to describe someone’s character.

　　我们经常会在某些特定场合感到nervous，例如考试的时候，我们不用nervous去形容一个人的性格。

　　• I’ve never been as nervous as the time I had to give a speech to 500 people.

　　• My sister is very nervous. She’s always shouting at me.

　　journey and travel

　　journey和travel

　　Journey is countable. Travel is uncountable and refers to the general idea of travelling.

　　Journey是可数的，travel是不可数的，它指代的是“travelling(旅行)”的大意。

　　• Did you have a good travel?

　　• Travel is something I recommend to all young people.

　　• The journey took about 8 hours.

　　recipe, receipt and prescription

　　recipe, receipt和prescription

　　A recipe is a set of instructions for cooking something.

　　A recipe是菜谱

　　A receipt is a piece of paper you are given after you pay for something.

　　A receipt是收据

　　A prescription is a piece of paper a doctor gives you to get the medicine you need.

　　A prescription是处方

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