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关键词：单词记忆法 英语单词运用
Capital 和 Capitol这两个词是同音异义词：听起来几乎相同但这两个英语单词的运用却天差地别。除了读音相同外，还有拼写上的相似让许多人容易弄混。
Capital 和 Capitol英语单词定义
Capital——
A．名词，有很多意思：
（1）政府所在地的城市
（2）金钱、财产、财富;
（3）资产或优势
（4）大写字母（句子开头使用的大写字母）——简单的单词记忆法：a是老大，所以capital有大写的意思。
B．形容词：
（1）死刑（如 "a capitaloffense"死罪 ）
（2）大写 （如A，B，C 而不是a，b，c）
（3）优秀或非常重要
Capitol，名词，指立法会议所在的建筑物。（简单的单词记忆法：o就像是国会大厦的圆顶。）
Capital 和 Capitol英语单词运用例句
例1：The United States Capitol building is located in Washington, D.C., the capital city of the U.S.（美国国会大厦的圆顶是美国 最著名的人文地标之一。）
例2：The capitalof Alaska is Juneau（阿拉斯加的首都是朱诺。）
例3：An out-of-date diary on which was written in capitals: THE AIDEN CYCLE."（一本旧日记上用大写字母写着：THE AIDEN CYCLE。）- 来源：Christina Stead, The Man Who Loved Children, 1940年）
例4： It is a capitalmistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts."（ 在获取数据之前就开始立论是一个严重的错误。不可思议的是，人们开始扭曲事实以迎合理论，而不是理论来迎合事实。）- 来源：Arthur Conan Doyle, "A Scandal in Bohemia," 1891)
例5： "Though many think capital punishment is not an effective deterrent to crime, others insist this is because criminals in the United States know they are not likely to be convicted of a capital crime and that if they are convicted, they are even less likely to be executed."（虽然很多人认为， 死刑并不能有效遏制犯罪，但仍有一些人认为这是因为那些罪犯知道在美国没那么容易被判死刑，就算被判了死刑，也不太可能会执行。）- 来源：John S. Feinberg and Paul D. Feinberg, Ethics for a Brave New World, 2nd ed. Crossway, 2010
Capital 和 Capitol英语单词运用习题
(a) The United States _____ building is located in Washington, D.C., the _____ city of the U.S. (b) We lived with our grandmother and uncle in the rear of the Store (it was always spoken of with a _____ S), which she had owned some twenty-five years. (c) Thecost of starting a boardinghouse in San Francisco could be prohibitive, and very few newcomers to the West had the _____ to open the kind of establishment that Pleasant financed on Washington Street.
答案
（a） Capitol,capital
（b） capital
（c） capital
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