惡補(bǔ)完了風(fēng)騷律師，今晚聊個(gè)小詞AFFECT

• 最常見的用法表示?to have an effect on

  During this year's annual two sessions political meetings in March, concerns were raised that too much after-school tutoring could affect?students' physical and mental health.

• to move or disturb emotionally or mentally 情感上的觸動(dòng)

  A thing that became clear to me while making the show was that we were really talking about people who'd been affected by trauma (受到精神創(chuàng)傷的人), trying to learn to move on from their trauma.

  trauma 精神創(chuàng)傷 動(dòng)詞是traumatize 形容詞是traumatic

  （PTSD的全稱就是 post-traumatic stress disorder）

  affect的這兩層意思常和deeply一起用

  The death of the child deeply affected both of them.
  

  Brian Simpson was also deeply affected by the incident - he committed suicide the following year.

  The rest of us have?precious?little influence?over the global economy, though our lives are?deeply?affected?by?it.

  (這句話里的precious挺有意思，在這兒是副詞用法，表示extremely)

  The pandemic has meant that most business conversations now take place on the phone or online. Precious?few in-person meetings occur. Some might think this makes listening more difficult; it is harder to pick up the subtle cues that people reveal in their facial expressions and body language.（一句經(jīng)濟(jì)學(xué)人例句）

  常搭配的就是precious little/few，表示極少

• 還有是 to pretend to have or feel 假裝?（并不是很常見）

  To all his problems she affected indifference.

  對(duì)他所有的問題，她都裝作漠不關(guān)心的樣子。

  Ms. Redgrave affects a heavy Italian accent.

  雷德格雷夫女士假裝操一口濃重的意大利口音。

  這時(shí)有個(gè)同義詞，assume，也是熟詞僻義，可以表示裝出，強(qiáng)調(diào)?a particular expression or way of behaving

  assume ignorance, indifference, an air of concern

  假裝不知情、裝作不在乎、假意關(guān)心

  還有一個(gè)同義詞是feign，也是假裝，不僅有assume的那層意思，但它還可以描述physical condition

  比如feign illness裝病