在英汉翻译中,supplementary和complementary的用法辨析可从以下维度展开:
1. 语义核心差异
- supplementary(补充性)强调"数量追加",如:
The textbook has a supplementary workbook.(教材配有补充练习册)→ 额外增加
- complementary(互补性)强调"功能匹配",如:
The two theories are complementary to each other.(两种理论互为补充)→ 相互完善
2. 搭配特征对比
- supplementary 常搭配:
~ materials(补充材料)/ ...(以上内容有节略,please sign in for more)
Acting as a complement; making up a whole with something else.
Of the specific pairings of the bases in DNA and RNA.
Pertaining to pairs of properties in quantum mechanics that are inversely related to each other, such as speed and position, or energy and time. (See also Heisenberg uncertainty principle.)
A complementary colour.
One skilled in compliments.
An angle which adds with another to equal 90 degrees.
Acting as a complement; making up a whole with something else.
Of the specific pairings of the bases in DNA and RNA.
Pertaining to pairs of properties in quantum mechanics that are inversely related to each other, such as speed and position, or energy and time. (See also Heisenberg uncertainty principle.)
A complementary colour.
One skilled in compliments.
An angle which adds with another to equal 90 degrees.