语言与文风2022losethevery.com编辑精选
把句子里的“very”换掉
Replace the “very” in your sentence
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帖子介绍了一个把句子里"very"替换成所谓更高级同义词的网站，但评论区几乎一致反驳这种"删掉 very"的写作教条：替换词往往带着原词没有的语义色彩，照做反而会让表达走样。值得写作者一读，因为它示范了一条看起来有理的写作规则如何经不起细究，也顺带说明了真正的用词原则是什么。
可以直接用的写作要点
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同义词极少能一一对应，替换前先确认新词是否捎带了你并不想表达的额外含义（colossal 比 tall 更强调体量，emaciated 比 skinny 更病态）。
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用词要服务于具体读者、语境和想达到的效果；"一律禁用某个词"这类一刀切规则本身就是省事而非用心。
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very 是清晰有效的强调手段，不必禁用，但要控制密度——一句话最多一次，别让它堆成口水。
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想提升语感，与其背同义词对照表，不如大量读听高质量的真实文本（如 BBC Radio 4、Financial Times），体会不同风格的差别。
HN 评论精选
盲目替换会产生你并不想要的联想义，很多建议词义并不等价；very 本身可用，关键是控制频率，非母语者应去读真实语料。
作为母语者，我的回答是：不（少数情况除外）。首先这更像在炫耀词汇量，而且很容易踩进联想义的雷区，效果可能适得其反。其次一半的建议是错的："very ashamed"并不等于 repentant，羞耻和悔恨相近但不是一回事；"very healthy"也不等于 exuberant，后者指精力充沛而非身体好。想显得有文化或更像母语者的人会被这网站带偏；非母语者则会被搞糊涂、开始怀疑自己的理解，不如去听 BBC Radio 4、读金融时报（风格多样，BBC 还免费）。用 very 完全没问题，只要限制到一句最多一次即可（注意"very minimum"不能换成"the least"，也许可以换成"at the very least"）。very 用清晰易懂的方式加强语气——换句话说，它能让文字很（very）好读，又不费很（very）大力气（对，我在自嘲）。
KaiserPro查看英文原文
As a native speaker, my reply is: no[1] Firstly this appears to be a way to boast about the size of your vocabulary. That's great, but, frankly you are walking into a bigarsed zone of unintended connotations. Its more than likely to do the exact opposite. Second, half of the suggestions are wrong. for example "very ashamed" is not the same as repentant. shame and regret are two similar things, but not the same. same with "very healthy" being a synonym for exuberant. Exuberant is full of energy, not feeling healthy. again linked but not the same. All of you who want to sound either more "well read", or more native, this website will lead you astray. All of you who are non-native, this website will confuse you and make you question your understanding. listen to bbc radio4/read the financial times, it will be better for you and there is wide range of styles to choose from (in the case of the BBC its free too) using 'very' is perfectly fine, just try to limit it's use to once a sentence at the very minimum(no you can't swap very minimum for "the least" maybe "at the very least"). "Very" adds emphasis in a clear and understandable way. in other words, it can make thing very readable, without very much effort. (yes I am taking the piss.) [1] apart from a few circumstances
替代词往往比原词更具体、更强烈，会让读者误读你的本意，有些替换干脆是错的。
如果你是 ESL 学习者，建议谨慎（嘿，我本来写的是"very wary"）。我随手点"随机"看到的许多替代词，都带有"very+形容词"所没有的微妙含义或具体程度——比如用 colossal 代替 tall、用 emaciated 代替 skinny，听起来就像你想表达一个你其实（大概）并不想表达的意思。而用 pungent 代替 tasty 完全是错的。
OJFord查看英文原文
If you're an ESL speaker or something thinking this will be useful, I'd suggest caution (heh, changed that from 'very wary'). Many of the proposed alternatives I saw clicking through 'random' have a subtlety or specificity that the original 'very adj' doesn't - so it sounds like you mean something you might not (probably don't) if you say 'colossal' instead of 'tall' or 'emaciated' instead of 'skinny' for example. And 'pungent' instead of 'tasty' is just plain wrong.
借电影台词给出"用 very 就是懒"的经典论调，正好是评论区要反驳的靶子。
引用《死亡诗社》台词："别用 very，因为那是偷懒。一个人不是 very tired，而是 exhausted；别说 very sad，说 morose。语言被发明出来只有一个原因，孩子们——为了赢得女人——在这件事上懒惰可不行。写文章也一样。"
alibrarydweller查看英文原文
"So avoid using the word ‘very’ because it’s lazy. A man is not very tired, he is exhausted. Don’t use very sad, use morose. Language was invented for one reason, boys - to woo women - and, in that endeavor, laziness will not do. It also won’t do in your essays." -- The Dead Poets Society
写作要因读者和语境斟酌用词，"一刀切禁词"是不动脑的教条，照做只会让表达失准。
这是网上流传最广、也最有害的那类"照搬式"写作建议之一。写作时应该仔细斟酌用词，并根据读者、语境、预期效果来调整。"删掉 very"恰恰是仔细思考的反面：它无视不同词语之间的细微差别，几乎没有哪个词能直接替换另一个词。照这条建议做，你只会得到一堆不连贯的辞藻，表达的（很可能）是跟你本意非常（very）不同的东西。
Peritract查看英文原文
This is one of the most pernicious pieces of cargo-cult writing advice that gets smeared all over the internet. When writing, you should think carefully about your word choice, and adapt it for your audience, context, intended effect, etc. "Lose the very" is the exact opposite of thinking carefully. It ignores all the subtle shades of meaning that different words bring. Almost no words have direct swap-in synonyms. If you follow this advice, you end up with a mess of incoherent verbiage that (probably) says something very different to what was intended.
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