【同义词辨析】 相信belief-credit

belief: suggests mental acceptance but may or may not imply certitude in the believer: my ~ that I had caught all the errors.


faith: always suggests certitude even where there is no evidence or proof: an unshakable ~ in God.      (certitude坚信implies a faith strong enough to resist all attack强烈的信念,如believed in his innocence with a fair degree of certitude坚信他是无辜的)   信念强调没有证据证明的情况下的坚信,否则不叫信念而是坚信,可用于对宗教对政治理想或对某个人


credence: suggests intellectual assent without implying anything about the validity of the grounds for assent: a theory given little ~ by scientists.


credit: implies assent on grounds other than direct proof: give no ~ to idle rumors.     credit card信用卡,其中的credit是表示信誉


belief相信: 表示认为真实,无论是否坚信,faith信念: 在没有证据证明的情况下坚信,强烈褒义,credence相信轻信: 表示缺乏任何依据,含贬义,credit相信声誉: 表示缺乏直接依据(但有间接依据,如信誉)


记忆方法: 1) 首字母BFCC想成常常防备<==不相信    ""会意字,本意是"言语真实",引申为"诚实可靠信用确实",如信用表示"能履行诺言而使对方不怀疑"。这个字在战国时使用频率很高,广泛用于人名和封号,还用于"消息讯息",可能蕴含了对人言诚信的期望。

          2) 相信的意思是认为真实mean to assent to the truth of something offered for acceptance.首字母BFCC想成常常防备<==不相信   assent同意赞同认同