说“差不多”和“几乎”

About “chàbùduō” and “jīhū”

副词"差不多"和"几乎"在意义、句法功能等方面有相同点也有不同点。语义上,"几乎"的程度比"差不多"高,主观性也强;语体上,"差不多"多用于口语,"几乎"既用于口语,也用于书面语;句法功能上,"差不多""几乎"都可以修饰动词短语、形容词短语、数量名、名词短语等,但"差不多"可单用,"几乎"不能,而"几乎"可修饰带可能补语的结构,"差不多"不行。

This paper analyses the meaning, stylistic, syntactic functions of ＂chàbùduō＂ and ＂jīhū＂ basing on statistic of the corpus, it found that semantically ＂jīhū＂ has a greater extent and stronger subjectivity than ＂chàbùduō＂; ＂chàbùduō ＂is used for spoken language, and＂ jihu ＂is used for both oral and written language;＂ chàbùduō＂ and ＂jīhū＂ can modify a verb phrase, adjective phrase, number-measure phrase and noun phrase, etc, but ＂chàbùduō＂ can be used alone, ＂jīhū＂ can not; ＂jīhū＂ can be modified with a possible complement structure, ＂chàbùduō＂ can not.