capital + noun
表示“大写的”时,capital 通常放在名词前作定语,如 capital letters(大写字母)。
Please write your name in capital letters.
请用大写字母写下你的名字。
首都的;政府所在地的。;极其重要的;首要的。;可处死刑的;死刑的。;头部的;与头有关的。;极其重要的。
极其重要的。
Of prime importance.
首要的(在政治意义上,作为国家或地区政府所在地)。
Chief (in a political sense, as being the seat of the general government of a state or nation).
可判死刑的,涉及死刑的。
Punishable by, or involving punishment by, death.
大写的。
Uppercase.
与头部相关的。
Of or relating to the head.
Always write your name in capital letters on official forms.
在正式表格上,务必用大写字母写你的名字。
用法提示:这里capital作形容词,修饰letters,表示“大写的”。
The warning at the top of the page is printed in capital letters.
页面顶部的警告是用大写字母印的。
用法提示:capital letters意为“大写字母”,capital作定语说明字体形式。
Proper nouns like "Paris" begin with a capital letter.
像“巴黎”这样的专有名词以大写字母开头。
用法提示:capital作形容词,说明letter是“大写的”,用于句首或专有名词。
表示“大写的”时,capital 通常放在名词前作定语,如 capital letters(大写字母)。
Please write your name in capital letters.
请用大写字母写下你的名字。
of capital importance 是固定搭配,意为“极其重要的”,语气比 very important 更正式。
This discovery is of capital importance to medicine.
这一发现对医学至关重要。
表示“首都”时,常用 capital city;也可以只说 the capital,如 the capital of France。
Paris is the capital city of France.
巴黎是法国的首都。
grammar · medium
易错句子Please write your name in capital letter on the form.
正确表达Please write your name in capital letters on the form.
英语里可数名词泛指一类事物时要用复数形式。capital letter(大写字母)是可数名词,泛指“大写字母”时须说 capital letters;汉语名词没有单复数变化,学生容易漏掉词尾 -s,写成单数 capital letter。
grammar · medium
易错句子Please capital the first letter of each sentence.
正确表达Please capitalize the first letter of each sentence.
表示“把字母大写”这一动作要用动词 capitalize,名词/形容词 capital 不能直接作谓语动词。汉语“大写”没有词形变化,学生常把形容词 capital 当动词用;改成 capitalize 后句子才有谓语,意思仍是“把首字母大写”。
grammar · medium
易错句子Write the headline in capital.
正确表达Write the headline in capitals.
capital 作形容词“大写的”时必须后接名词(如 capital letters),不能单独跟在介词后充当名词。要表示“用大写字母”,须用名词 capitals。汉语“用大写写”看不出词性差别,学生易把形容词当名词用,故补出名词形式 capitals。
首都;首府
Beijing is the capital city of China.
北京是中国的首都。
死刑;极刑
Some countries have abolished capital punishment.
一些国家已经废除了死刑。
大写字母
Start each sentence with a capital letter.
每个句子都要以大写字母开头。
死罪;可判死刑的罪行
In that country, murder is a capital offense.
在那个国家,谋杀是死罪。
极其重要的
This decision is of capital importance to the whole team.
这个决定对整个团队极其重要。
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