词汇对比与辨析

核心差别

deafen 强调deafen 指使某人暂时或永久失去听力,deaf 则侧重指听力丧失或完全听不见的状态

使用场景对比

对比方面deafendeaf
核心含义deafen 指使某人暂时或永久失去听力,或指声音大到让人听不见其他声音,常用于描述巨大噪音的影响。指听力丧失或完全听不见的状态,常用于描述人或动物因生理原因无法感知声音。
词性动词形容词
使用语域deafen 常用作及物动词,后接宾语表示被影响的人或物,如 'deafen someone';也可用作不及物动词,描述声音本身令人耳聋,如 'The noise deafened.'。作为形容词,直接修饰名词,表示“聋的”状态,常用于描述人或动物。

对比例句

deafen

The loud music at the party almost deafened me.

派对上的吵闹音乐差点让我耳朵聋掉。

deafen

Don't deafen your little sister with that toy horn!

别用那个玩具喇叭把你妹妹的耳朵震聋了!

deaf

My grandfather became deaf after years of working in a noisy factory.

我祖父在嘈杂的工厂工作多年后失聪了。

deaf

She is deaf in one ear, but she can still hear well with the other.

她一只耳朵聋了,但另一只耳朵还能听得很清楚。

常见误用提醒

使用 deafen:The noise deafened to me. → The noise deafened me. (deafen 是及物动词,直接接宾语,不需要加 'to';错误用法可能受中文'使聋'结构影响,但英语中应直接用 'deafen someone'。)

使用 deafen:He was deafening by the loud sound. → He was deafened by the loud sound. (在被动语态中,deafen 应用过去分词 'deafened',而不是现在分词 'deafening';'deafening' 通常作形容词,如 'deafening noise'。)

使用 deaf:He is deaf on his left ear. → He is deaf in his left ear. (英语中描述身体部位缺陷时,通常用介词“in”而不是“on”,例如“blind in one eye”或“deaf in one ear”。)