英式英語和美式英語大不同

　　1. 人行道：(B) Pavement;(A) sidewalk

　　2. 垃圾： (B) Rubbish;(A)trash

　　3. 足球：(B)football;(A)soccer

　　4. 地鐵(B)Tube(A)subway

　　5.餅干：(B)biscuit;(A)cookie

　　6.糖果：(B)sweets;(A)candy

　　7.句號：(B)full stop;(A)period

　　8. 秋天：(B)autumn;(A)fall

　　9.公寓(B)Flat;(A) apartment

　　10.電梯(B) Lift;(A)elevator

　　11.炸薯條(B)chips;(A)fries

　　12.汽油(B) Petrol –(A)Gas

　　13.高速公路(B)Motorway –(A)highway

　　14.果凍 (B)Jam –(A) jelly

　　15.電影院(B) Cinema –(A)movie theatre

　　16.褲子(B)Trousers –(A)pants

　　17. 停車場(B)Car park –(A)parking lot

　　18.毛衣 (B)Jumper –(A)sweater

　　19.節(jié)假日 (B)–(A)vacation

　　20.郵政編碼(B)Post code –(A)zip code

　　Over the past 400 years, the form of the language used in the United States – and that used in the United Kingdom and the rest of the British Isles have diverged in many ways, leading to the dialects now commonly referred to as American English and British English. Differences between the two include pronunciation, grammar, vocabulary, spelling, punctuation, idioms, formatting of dates and numbers, and so on. A small number of words have completely different meanings between the two dialects or are even unknown or not used in one of the dialects。

　　在過去四百年里，美國和英國所使用的英語不盡相同，也就是我們所熟知的美式英語和英式英語。兩者的不同表現(xiàn)在方方面面，包括發(fā)音、語法、詞匯、拼寫、標點符號，慣用語和日期和數(shù)字的格式等等。有一小部分詞匯甚至是“完全的同形異義詞”，使用者甚至根本不知道這一點：在這種方言里使用的這個詞的意義并不在另一種方言里使用。

　　This divergence between American English and British English once caused George Bernard Shaw to say that the United States and United Kingdom are "two countries divided by a common language"; a similar comment is ascribed to Winston Churchill. Likewise, Oscar Wilde wrote, "We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, the language."

　　關于美式英語和英式英語的這種分歧，劇作家蕭伯納大發(fā)感慨“美英兩國是一種語言，兩個國家”，英國首相丘吉爾也曾說過類似的話。無獨有偶，英國作家王爾德也嘲諷地寫道：“可以說，除了語言，如今我們在各方面和美國是完全一樣的。”