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'Syntactic' means 'to do with syntax' — that is, with how words are arranged into phrases and sentences, and what counts as a correctly built sentence in a language. A syntactic error is a fault in the arrangement, not in the meaning of the words: 'She the book read' has good words in a bad order.
'Syntactic' means 'to do with syntax'syntactic意思是『跟syntax(句法)有關的』—— that is也就是說, with how words are arranged into phrases and sentences跟單字怎麼排列成片語和句子有關, and what counts as a correctly built sentence in a language以及在一個語言裡什麼樣的句子算是造得正確的. A syntactic error一個syntactic(句法上)的錯誤 is a fault in the arrangement是排列上出了問題, not in the meaning of the words而不是單字意思上的問題: 'She the book read'像'She the book read'這句 has good words in a bad order單字都對,但順序不對.
Linguists use it constantly — syntactic structure, syntactic rules, a syntactic analysis. Computing borrowed it whole: when a program refuses to run and says 'syntax error', it means the code breaks the language's arrangement rules, and programmers speak of syntactic correctness.
Linguists use it constantly語言學家經常使用這個字—— syntactic structure, syntactic rules, a syntactic analysis像syntactic structure(句法結構)、syntactic rules(句法規則)、a syntactic analysis(句法分析). Computing borrowed it whole電腦領域整個把這個字借來用: when a program refuses to run and says 'syntax error'當一個程式跑不起來、顯示'syntax error(語法錯誤)'時, it means the code breaks the language's arrangement rules意思是這段程式碼違反了這個語言的排列規則, and programmers speak of syntactic correctness而程式設計師會講syntactic correctness(語法正確性).
There is a useful pair to learn with it: syntactic is about form, semantic is about meaning. Chomsky's famous sentence 'Colourless green ideas sleep furiously' is fine and nonsense — that contrast is the clearest way to hold the two apart.
There is a useful pair to learn with it有一組搭配起來很有用的詞: syntactic is about form syntactic講的是形式, semantic is about meaning semantic(語意的)講的是意思. Chomsky's famous sentence 'Colourless green ideas sleep furiously' is syntactically fine and semantically nonsenseChomsky有名的例句'Colourless green ideas sleep furiously'在句法上沒問題,但在語意上是胡說八道—— that contrast is the clearest way to hold the two apart這個對比是分辨這兩者最清楚的方式.
The adverb is 'syntactically', and 'syntactical' means the same thing but is heard less often.
The adverb is 'syntactically'副詞是'syntactically', and 'syntactical' means the same thing而'syntactical'意思一樣, but is heard less often只是比較少聽到.
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
syntacticadj/sɪnˈtæktɪk/
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Of, related to or connected with syntax.
- The sentence “I saw he” contains a syntactic mistake.
- the rules specifying how agglutinative morphemes are combined with each other are more syntactic than morphological by their nature and thus are closer to rules specifying how word-forms are combined with each other.
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Containing morphemes that are combined in the same order as they would be if they were separate words e.g. greenfinch
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。