: 他们会超费事的要求你检查它修过的所有细节。 : 那是我第一次发现， : 他把我所有「while」（然而）都改成「whereas」。 : : 我当时很纳闷， : 这两字真的不通用吗？ : 因我不是第一次讲「然而」， : 所以拿起以前发表的期刊论文来复习检查一下，发现： : : 原来我这辈子写过的while都被期刊偷偷改成whereas了！ : : 之後，当我跟美国亚裔前老板合写paper时， : 我也每次都很费事的把他的while改成whereas…… : : ※ 编辑: ballII (1.163.185.238 台湾), 09/18/2020 14:49:34 : → Sulstan: 虽然while和whereas都是连接词，但是while语意成分+telic 09/18 15:56 : → Sulstan: 所以编辑会改成whereas是能理解的。我有老师也坚持只有 09/18 15:57 : → Sulstan: 时间训前後关系才能用since代替because 09/18 15:57 : 推 machinly: 大概领域别有差吧 我们写的 while 没有被改 09/18 16:43 : : APA规范有说明转折语气避免用while： : https://www.sjsu.edu/faculty/y.shimazu/APAexamples.html : : → machinly: 因为 whereas 会变另一种叙事法 09/18 16:44 : → machinly: 有时会用 whilst... 是说我昨天看到指导教授用 amongst 09/18 16:45 : → machinly: 还去查了一下到底跟 among 有什麽差别.... 09/18 16:45 第一次看到建议将While改成Whereas。Oxford学习字典对於While的定义包含 2. "used to contrast two things"以及3. "although; despite the fact that" 明显与whereas是同义字，那为何会有人建议改掉，这时候就需要查Usage 首先，查线上版的American Heritae Dictionary，"while"列了一个Usage note: Usage Note: As a conjunction, "while" is used to indicate that two events are happening at the same time (While I was preparing the hamburger patties, she sliced the onions and tomatoes), but it can also be used to contrast two clauses in a nontemporal way (While the "h" is silent in the word "honest," it is pronounced in the word "hostile"). "While" has been used in this nontemporal sense for hundreds of years, and the latter sentence was judged acceptable by 75 percent of the Usage Panel in our 2012 survey. The Panel was somewhat less accepting, however, of this use of "while" in a sentence where it could potentially be misread as having a temporal meaning (31 percent disapproved of the sentence She said she wanted to go to a movie, while he proposed seeing a play). And 43 percent disapproved of a sentence in which the two contrasting clauses are explicitly not simultaneous: While the Tigers beat the Cubs last week, this week the Cubs beat the Tigers. To avoid ambiguity or an unintended suggestion of simultaneity, choose a different conjunction, such as "although" or "whereas". 可见，使用while作为对比是完全没问题的，只要语意足够明确，不要让读者误以为 是「当....,同时...」的意思就好 另外，根据Garner's Modern English Usage（这本书在美国被视为usage权威），我节 录他对於while与wheras的说明： WHILE: "while" is a more relaxed and conversational term than "although" and "whereas", and it works nicely when introdicing a contrast. ... Though the use is quite proper, writers must be on guard for the occastional ambiguity. WHEREAS: One usage critic has state: "'Whereas' sounds stuffy. in spite of the objections of some grammarians, the common word now is 'while'". Yet "whreas" is better than "while" if the latter ambiguously suggests a time element. 可见，只要使用while不会让读者误以为你在谈的是时间，用while完全没问题，甚至 是更好的，因为whereas太笨重，不够口语。 至於WHILST，这是英式英语旧的用法，Garner建议在美式美语不要用。 我猜测APA可能是担心作者不小心使用while导致语意不清，乾脆一律改用whereas。但 最好去了解背後的道理，而不是一律要求这麽做。Usage的问题已经跳出文法与定义。 问题往往是如何避免语意混淆，避免不必要的误解。还是建议大家要有几本工具书，有 问题就拿出来查。 --

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