单选题 The word "gasoline" and "petrol" are
  • [A] synonyms differing in emotive meaning.
  • [B] dialectal synonyms.
  • [C] synonyms differing in style.
  • [D] collocationally-restricted synonyms.


【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】[解析] 美国人用“gasoline”表示汽油,英国人习惯用“petrol”表示,这是由地域不同造成的。方言同义词(Dialectal synonyms)是指意义大致相同但有方言差异的词。
[点睛] 同义词除了方言同义词外,还有以下几种:在情感或评价意义方面存有差异的同义词(Synonyms with different emotive or evaluative meaning),文体同义词(Stylistic synonyms),搭配同义词(Collocational synonyms),存在语义差异的同义词(semantically different synonyms)。