Name: 影響還是效果？推斷還是暗示？同情還是移情？ (AFFECT or EFFECT? Infer or Imply? Sympathy or Empathy?)
Uploaded: 2025-06-17T18:37:11.000Z
Duration: 15 min 21 s

E's doing a common mistake called a malappropriatism.

E 犯了一個常見錯誤，叫做 "不當行為"。

Don't worry, I don't know what it means either.

別擔心，我也不知道這是什麼意思。

It's when we use the wrong word in a different situation.

是我們在不同的情況下用錯了詞。

In this case, right, so you don't need to know the big word, malappropriatism.

在這種情況下，你就不需要知道 "不當行為 "這個大詞了。

Just know that you're using a word that you think means this, but it may not.

只要知道你使用的詞是你認為有這個意思的，但可能不是。

And that could be for a variety of reasons.

It can be because it's a homophone, which means it sounds the same, but when you write it down, they look different.

這可能是因為它們是同音字，也就是聽起來一樣，但寫下來卻不一樣。

Or it can actually have a different meaning, even though they kind of look the same.

或者，儘管它們看起來差不多，但實際上卻有不同的含義。

So, today I have chosen six words, and we're calling them pairs because usually the person will make the mistake thinking one word means the other.

所以，今天我選擇了六個單詞，我們稱它們為 "對"，因為通常情況下，人們會誤以為一個單詞是另一個單詞的意思。

But I'm going to try and show you in a way that you won't make that mistake.

但我要用一種方法告訴你，你不會犯這樣的錯誤。

And to make this lesson fun, because learning English is hard, and you're here to work, but there's no reason you can't have a little fun.

要讓這堂課充滿樂趣，因為學習英語很辛苦，你們是來工作的，但也沒有理由不找點樂子。

I'm going to throw in a fun fact for you to help you remember these things.

我給你講個有趣的事實，幫助你記住這些事情。

You might notice the first one says action verb, something is changing or making a difference, versus Batman v Superman.

你可能會注意到，第一個 "行動動詞 "與 "蝙蝠俠大戰超人 "相比，前者說的是 "行動動詞"，即某些事情正在發生變化或有所作為。

相比之下，你最終得到了什麼？

This is a commonly confused pair of words, with even native speakers making this mistake, because they sound very similar.

這是一對經常被混淆的詞，甚至母語使用者也會犯這樣的錯誤，因為它們聽起來非常相似。

It's a slight difference in pronunciation, but how you're supposed to use them is very different.

發音上略有不同，但使用方法卻大相徑庭。

And the first difference we can see is one is a verb and one is a noun.

我們可以看到的第一個區別是，一個是動詞，一個是名詞。

And I'm going to put it here and I'm going to help you with it, because it's going to start with a, and this is affect.

我把它放在這裡，我會幫你完成它，因為它將以 "a "開頭，這就是 "影響"。

When you use this word, you want to show a difference or a change.

當您使用這個詞時，您希望表現出差異或變化。

So, if someone's using medicine, for instance, you would say, how is the medicine affecting them?

例如，如果有人在用藥，你會說，藥物對他們有什麼影響？

What change is happening because they're taking the medicine?

And I've done a and a, so you can remember, think of a verb and think of an action, that's what's happening when you get an affect.

我做了一個和一個，這樣你就能記住，想一個動詞，想一個動作，這就是當你產生影響時發生的事情。

Now, what about the other word that people confuse it?

那麼，另一個讓人混淆的詞呢？

Ah, they almost look so much the same, that's the problem, and that's effect.

啊，它們看起來幾乎一模一樣，這就是問題所在，這就是效果。

When we talk about the effect of something, we talk about the end result.

當我們談論某件事情的效果時，我們談論的是最終結果。

So, we say, how is the medicine affecting Victoria, and you can say the effect was she lost her foot.

所以，我們說，藥物對維多利亞有什麼影響，可以說影響就是她失去了腳。

Do, do, dum, dum, psh, another nice ending, but that's the effect, and we can remember that by looking at the letter E for effect.

Do，do，dum，dum，psh，又是一個漂亮的結尾，但這就是效果，我們可以通過字母 E 的效果來記住它。

So, if you want to talk about the end result of something, use effect, which is a noun, but when you want to talk about the action of something, how it's changing, use affect with the A.

是以，如果您想談論某件事情的最終結果，請使用 effect，它是一個名詞，但如果您想談論某件事情的動作，即它是如何變化的，請使用帶 A 的 affect。

All right, I already know some of you guys out there, you keyboard warriors, James, there's times when effect can be a verb, too, and you're forgetting affect as a noun, which is a psychological state...

好吧，我已經知道你們中的一些人，你們這些鍵盤俠，詹姆斯，有的時候effect也可以是一個動詞，而你們忘了affect是一個名詞，它是一種心理狀態...

I'm talking about how we normally use it, and I just told you I know.

我說的是我們通常如何使用它，我剛告訴你我知道。

I'm talking about, basically, how it's used and misused, and as long as we can remember, think ending for effect and affect with action, you're going to beat most native speakers.

我說的基本上是它的使用和誤用，只要我們能記住 "以效果為結尾，以行動為影響"，你就能打敗大多數母語使用者。

The next one I want to talk about is this one.

The subject can see the pain in the other person and feel sorry for them, versus...

被試可以看到對方的痛苦，併為他們感到難過，而...

我不會參加泰森的比賽，如果他...

The next one is to experience the emotions of another person.

Notice this one says to experience the emotions of another person.

請注意，這句話說的是體驗他人的情感。

That means feel them, while this one says feel sorry for the person who's in pain.

那是說感受他們，而這句話是說為痛苦的人感到難過。

That's not the same, because you can experience them having a good emotion.

這是不一樣的，因為你可以體驗到他們的美好情感。

But what are the words I'm talking about?

Now, if you know these words well, if you weren't confused right away, you were like, ugh, clearly this must be...

現在，如果你熟悉這些單詞，如果你沒有立刻感到困惑，你會想，唉，很明顯，這一定是......

A lot of native speakers make this mistake with sympathy and empathy.

很多以同情和共鳴為母語的人都會犯這樣的錯誤。

They think because they feel they're the same words, or they're confused.

他們之所以這麼想，是因為他們覺得這兩個詞是一樣的，或者是他們搞混了。

I used to love watching Star Trek with Lieutenant Deanna Troi.

我以前很喜歡看《星際迷航》中的迪安娜-特洛伊中尉。

And I didn't know if she was, like, feeling sorry for them, because sometimes she goes, his pain is great, Captain, I feel so bad.

我不知道她是不是在同情他們，因為有時她會說，他很痛苦，隊長，我很難過。

A little secret, I might have said this before in videos.

一個小祕密，我以前可能在視頻中說過。

I had zero empathy for a lot of people for a lot of my life when it came to pain.

在我生命中的很多時候，我對很多人的痛苦都沒有同情心。

Not because I'm a bad guy, and this is the confusion of the words.

不是因為我是個壞人，這就是文字的混淆之處。

When I was younger, I played a lot of sports and I never really had any injuries or anything that hurt.

我年輕的時候參加過很多運動，但從來沒有受過傷或任何傷害。

So, when I would see someone with a broken arm or a leg, I'd go, oh, too bad, buddy.

所以，當我看到有人斷手斷腳時，我會說，哦，太糟糕了，夥計。

It's not that I was looking down on them, but if you have never felt that kind of pain, you don't know how to have empathy.

不是我看不起他們，而是如果你從未感受過那種痛苦，你就不知道如何去感同身受。

You can feel sorry for them, and this is why we've got the S.

你可以為他們感到難過，這就是我們有 S 的原因。