1. very滥用之解决之道

我们在表达“非常”的时候，常常使用“very”这个单词，造成这个词的使用频率非常高。如以下的错误例子，

• I very like foodball.
• This food is very delicious.

究其原因，想必是中文表达中习惯于在形容词前加“很”或者“非常”来强调和加强相关程度，所以我们会习惯性地用在英语表达中。为了消除该弊病，我们必须学会正确使用其他强度修饰语来替换“very”，例如“really”。请看下面例句：
CHINGLISH: I very like your friend in the mini-skirt.
ENGLISH: I really like your friend in the mini-skirt.

CHINGLISH: This fried snake is very delicious.
ENGLISH: This fried snake is really delicious.

CHINGLISH: We had very good fun at the disco on Saturday.
ENGLISH: We had really good fun at the disco on Saturday.

CHINGLISH: That film was very amazing.
ENGLISH: That film was really amazing.

CHINGLISH: This beer tastes very awful.
ENGLISH: This beer tastes really awful.

CHINGLISH: The poverty and fighting in Africa is very terrible.
ENGLISH: The poverty and fighting in Africa is really terrible.
从以上例子中，我们不难看出，当与“like”、“fun”、“delicious”、“amazing”、“awful”和“terrible”使用时，不能使用“very”，可以使用“really”。当然也可以使用其他强度修饰语来替换“very”。下面列出其中一些，并通过例句说明其用法。
一般来说，这类词可以根据语体（正式/非正式）和语气（强/弱）分成不同组别，详见下表，

以上词语，应尽量避免使用“正式”分组中的词语，因为这些词语很容易让人听起来觉得说话人自负无礼。“一般”分组中的词语，语气强只能用于表达强烈的感情，例如：

• Professor Chen offered an extremely fine course that the students really appreciated.
• Be careful when eating Sichuan dishes, they eat sometimes be extremely hot.
• I feel that western politicians' meddling in Asian internal affairs is completely wrong.
• It was literally their last chance.
  其中最后一个词“deadly”通常只与“dull”、“boring”等搭配，例如：
• I found the whole thing deadly dull.
• The new teacher's lectures were deadly boring.

至于语气强烈的非正式用语，许多人认为属于不规范的英语或俚语。如果你常看美国电影，这些词想必你会碰到。下面的例句说明这些词的用法：

• He took me for dinner, then dancing and was real charming all night.
• He was plumb tuckered out. (He was exhausted.)
• She was plenty angry.
• They were greatly amused.
• They were wildly excited.

下面例句中所用的表达方式一般只有西方年轻人使用，建议初学者不要使用，否则，说出来的话显得不伦不类，暂时只需记住这些表达方式的意思就可以了：

• The way that he was surfing was totally unbelievable(very,very good).
• The new game that I have bought for my computer is totally awesome(very, very good).
• Your new hairstyle is way cool(very fashionable).
• Those new jeans of yours are way fine.
• The movie that we saw last night was just amazing.
• The Full Monty was a much better movie than Titanic. It was just hilarious.
  这些词尽管被称为强度修饰词，但有时也用于弱化其后的名词或者形容词语气。下面例句可以说明这一点：
• This fish is rather tasty, but not half as good as that salmon that we had last week.
• My exam results were fairly good but not as good as I expected.
• I am pretty good at chess but I am not brilliant.
• He was pretty close to the end.
• My girlfriend may not be Gong Li or Maggie Cheung but she is kind of beautiful, in a traditional Chinese way.
• My new boyfriend may not be Tom Cruise but he sure is kind of handsome.

quite在美国英语中，是一个用作加强语气的词语，而在英国英语中弱化语气的作用。

• She is quite pretty(American English = extremely pretty).
• She is quite pretty(British English = fairly pretty).