tailieunhanh - Nghiên cứu từ vựng trong tiếng anh5

Tham khảo tài liệu 'nghiên cứu từ vựng trong tiếng anh5', ngoại ngữ, anh ngữ phổ thông phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | rationale rationalization RATIONALE RATIONALIZATION When you re explaining the reasoning behind your position you re presenting your rationale. But if you re just making up some lame excuse to make your position appear better whether to yourself or others you re engaging in rationalization. List of errors file C Temp livres commonerrors errors 09 2005 15 39 35 ravaging ravishing ravenous RAVAGING RAVISHING RAVENOUS To ravage is to pillage sack or devastate. The only time ravaging is properly used is in phrases like when the pirates had finished ravaging the town they turned to ravishing the women. Which brings us to ravish meaning to rape or rob violently. A trailer court can be ravaged by a storm nothing is stolen but a lot of damage is done but not ravished. The crown jewels of Ruritania can be ravished stolen using violence without being ravaged damaged . To confuse matters people began back in the fourteenth century to speak metaphorically of their souls being ravished by intense spiritual or esthetic experiences. Thus we speak of a ravishing woman the term is rarely applied to men today not because she literally rapes men who look at her but because her devastating beauty penetrates their hearts in an almost violent fashion. Despite contemporary society s heightened sensitivity about rape we still remain perhaps fortunately unconscious of many of the transformations of the root meaning in words with positive connotations such as rapturous. Originally raven as a verb was synonymous with ravish in the sense of to steal by force. One of its specialized meanings became devour as in the lion ravened her prey. By analogy hungry people became ravenous as hungry as beasts and that remains the only common use of the word today. If a woman smashes your apartment up she ravages it. If she looks stunningly beautiful she is ravishing. If she eats the whole platter of hors d oeuvres you ve set out for the party before the other guests come she s ravenous. .