你知道很多单词听起来都一样,但并不一样。 它们是同音字(=“相同的声音”)。 在英语中,也有许多同音异义词,尝试学习和理解它们很重要。 我们一直使用同音异义词,即使在日常演讲中也是如此。 它们也是笑话中常见的幽默来源,并且经常出现在谜语中。
这些页面解释同音异义词并提供音频示例,并按级别和类型列出许多同音异义词。
The following list of 70 homophone pairs contains only the most common homophones, using relativelywell-known words. These are headwords only. No inflections (such as third person singular "s" or noun plurals) are included. You can see more homophones in the graded homophones lists above.
air | heir |
aisle | isle |
ante- | anti- |
eye | I |
bare | bear |
be | bee |
brake | break |
buy | by |
cell | sell |
cent | scent |
cereal | serial |
coarse | course |
complement | compliment |
dam | damn |
dear | deer |
die | dye |
fair | fare |
fir | fur |
flour | flower |
for | four |
hair | hare |
heal | heel |
hear | here |
him | hymn |
hole | whole |
hour | our |
idle | idol |
in | inn |
knight | night |
knot | not |
know | no |
made | maid |
male | |
meat | meet |
morning | mourning |
none | nun |
oar | or |
one | won |
pair | pear |
peace | piece |
plain | plane |
poor | pour |
pray | prey |
principal | principle |
profit | prophet |
real | reel |
right | write |
root | route |
sail | sale |
sea | see |
seam | seem |
sight | site |
sew | so |
shore | sure |
sole | soul |
some | sum |
son | sun |
stair | stare |
stationary | stationery |
steal | steel |
suite | sweet |
tail | tale |
their | there |
to | too |
toe | tow |
waist | waste |
wait | weight |
way | weigh |
weak | week |
wear | where |