什么是“join”的过去式?


Angry Editor经常看到类似下面的句子:

XX Company joint hands with XY Company…

除了“hands”的出现 (见我早期的博文),还有个地方让我特别愤怒:joint!

“To join”(意为结合、连接等)的过去式和过去分词就是“joined”, 而不是“joint”。

Joint也是个单词,当名词讲时是骨节、关节、连接处、结合点的意思;当形容词用时是共有的、共同做的意思 。

因为joint有上述的意思,所以MS Word的spell check(拼写检查)也不会救你的!

例句:Have you joined the Angry Editor Kaixin group yet? 【你加入Angry Editor在开心网上的群了吗?】

例句:Yes, I joined the group yesterday. 【恩,我昨天加入了。】

例句:Technically speaking, Ogilvy is a joint venture. 【严格意义上讲,奥美在中国是家合资企业。】

例句: After a hard day’s editing your English, the joints in my fingers hurt. 【一整天都在纠正你的英文,我手指的骨节疼死了!】

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  1. #1 by Alf.K on 2009/12/02 - 10:56 am

    Funny post~!! Haha, I love those examples you put in here. So relative to your life and work.

    Well, I have to pay more attention while using English~!

    ;)

  2. #2 by vanessa on 2009/12/03 - 4:43 pm

    This blog is awesome^^;
    It’s very helpful. Thanks a looooot ~ !

  3. #3 by London Caller on 2009/12/05 - 1:05 am

    London Caller报到。

    哈哈…这部落格越看越过瘾!
    比吸大麻还要刺激?!呵呵。

  4. #4 by Tu Jinhua on 2009/12/09 - 4:37 pm

    LoooooooooooL, It’s so great to have a native English speaker to correct we chinese ppl’s gramatical mistakes, especially in this funny way, Dat’s really useful, thx.
    Plus, I have kept all the GRE vocabulary in my mind, so I definitely won’t make these mistakes.

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