基于在线Sketch Engine的英语同义词辨析——以Found和Establish为例

Differentiating English Synonyms Based on the Online Sketch Engine——Taking "Found" and "Establish" as Examples

同义词丰富是英语词汇的一个显著特点,也是英语学习的一大难点。基于语料库的同义词辨析是对传统词汇辨析的一种重要补充,通过检索目标词在语料库中的应用情况,可以得到更加直观、更加可靠的辨析结果。本文以在线Sketch Engine为检索工具,以BNC为检索语料库,对found和establish进行基于语料库的辨析,以期为学习者准确使用这组同义词提供依据。

English learners often find it difficult to have clear differentiation of English synonyms. There are several methods for differentiating English synonyms. And the corpus - based method is relatively new, but develops rapidly. This paper aims to differentiate a pair of synonyms ： ＂found＂ and ＂establish＂ with the corpus - based method by using the online Sketch Engine.