Finally、lastly、in the end都翻成「最後」但用法差很大!1分鐘破解台灣人最常搞混的文法

2018-09-17 09:00

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After a long, delayed flight, we finally got home at midnight.(在班機延誤很久之後,我們終於在半夜到家。)

= After a long, delayed flight, we got home at midnight at last.

另外,finally 也可以放在句子開頭,後面接「最後一件要說的事」,也可以等於 lastly。例如:

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Finally, I would like to thank you guys for coming to our wedding today.(最後,我想要感謝你們今天來我們的婚禮。)

= Lastly, I would like to thank you guys for coming to our wedding today.

(B) lastly

Lastly 通常後面會接「最後一件要說的事」、「一個列表中的最後一個項目」。例如:

Lastly, could you please share with us what your future plans are for the company?
(最後,可以請您和我們分享公司未來的計畫嗎?)

Can you swing by the supermarket to buy some eggs, onions, broccoli, and lastly my favorite blueberry yogurt?
(你可以順道去超市買一些蛋、洋蔥、綠花椰菜,最後還有我最喜歡的藍莓優格嗎?)

(C) at the end

At the end 通常後面會接 of,再接「具體的事物或時間點」,表示「...的盡頭、尾端」,像這樣:

The bakery at the end of the street sells Portuguese egg tarts.
(那間在街道盡頭的麵包店有賣葡式蛋塔。)

They are getting married at the end of this year.
(他們要在今年底結婚。)

(D) in the ending

沒有 in the ending 這個片語喔。Ending 通常是「電影或故事的結尾、結局」。例如:

For me, knowing the ending of a movie would spoil the enjoyment.
(對我來說,知道一部電影的結局會毀了興致。)

補充一下,有 in the end 這個片語,通常是用在「經過多次討論、多次改變,最後的結局是...」。例如:

I'm sure everything will be all right in the end.
(我確信最後一切都會好起來的。)

We originally planned to visit the Netherlands, but in the end, we went to Croatia.
(我們原本計畫要去荷蘭,但最後我們去了克羅埃西亞。)

本文經授權轉載自希平方-看YouTube學英文(原標題:【多益高分達人】Finally、lastly、in the end 都是『最後』,差別在這裡!)

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