在学习英语词汇中，有时同义词的辨析是很不容易的，我们一般从三方面进行区分，即：语法、语义和文体。语法主要是词性、搭配、句式等的区分；语义主要是词义的本义、引申义、比喻义和内涵和外延等的区分；文体主要是正式和非正式、褒义和贬义等的区分。 
 1.路
 way: Wherever there is room for an object to proceed, there is a way.
 road: A road is a prepared way for traveling with horses or vehicles.
 path: A way suitable to be traveled only by foot passengers or by animals.
 route: A route is a line of travel, and may be over many roads.
 street: A street is in some centre of habitation, as a city town or village, when it passes between houses of dwellings.
 avenue: A avenue is a long, broad and imposing(庄严) or principal street.
2.时代(期) (时期)
period: It indicates any passage of time, great or small. /an extent of time of any length. (时代) 
time(s): It refers to a period in history. in ancient times/ in Victoria time (新时代)
epoch: It indicates a long period of time marked by events or development of a particular kind. 
The first flight into space marked a new epoch in the history of mankind. (纪元) 
era: It refers to a very long period of time marked by a particular feature in a great new era of world revolution (时期) 
age: It shows a particular /a fairly definite period in history. the Bronze Age, Iron Age 
3.战斗 (打仗) 
fight: It is a bodily struggle (奋斗 斗争) 
struggle: An effort of any kind to overcome difficulty. (战斗)
battle: A fight between armed forces. (战役) 
campaign: A series of related military operations in a war. (战争) 
war: A period of fight between countries or states when weapons are used and many people are killed.(对抗) 
combat: A fight, conflict, controversy.
4.牧师 (教士 牧师) #
priest: A person, esp. a man specially trained for various religious duties and ceremonies, in the Christian church, esp. in the Roman Catholic church (牧师) 
minister: A member of clergy, esp. Protestant churches. (牧师) 
clergy(pl): The officially appointed leader of the religious activities of a particular church or temple. 
clergyman: clergymen(pl) a member of clergy. (牧师) 
pastor: A Christian religious leader in charge of a church and its members, esp. in a Protestant church. (教区牧师) 
vicar: A priest in charge of an area(parish) in the church of England.
father: A little of respect for a priest, esp. in the Roman Catholic. 
5.服装 
clothing(collect): (fml) General term of clothes. 
clothes(no single): Coverings of the body such as coats, dresses, suits, shoes, hats. 
garment(fl): A suit of clothes used by actors./a single article of clothing. 
costume: 1) The fashion of dress peculiar to a people, nation, class, period, etc. 
       2) A dress worn by actors in a play. uniform: worn by all members of the community. 
dress: 1) A kind of outer garment worn by women (连衣裙). 
     2) worn on special occasions (礼服) evening dress/ morning dress 
suit: A set of outer clothes to be worn together. evening suit/swimming suit 
coat: A garment with sleeves worn on top of other clothes from rain, heat, etc. 
overcoat: A warn coat worn in the street. 
6.哭 
cry: The most general one. 
 (哭泣) weep: To let flow tears. 
 (抽泣 抽嗒) sob: To weep or si

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