among的用法(关于among的用法及说明)
1'among' and 'between'
If you areamonga group of people or things, you are surrounded by them.
James wanderedamonghis guests.
Amonghis baggage was a medicine chest.
You do 百思特网not say that you are 'among' two people or things. You say that you arebetweenthem.
在两个人或物体当中,应用between, 大于两个的人或物体当中,应用among.
Myra and Barbara sat in the back, the babybetweenthem.
She put th百思特网e cigarettebetweenher lips.
The island is midwaybetweenSao Paulo and Porto Alegre.
2dividing
You can say that something is dividedamongorbetweena group of people. There is no difference in meaning.
在表达‘离开、被离开’的意思时,among或between都可以应用。
...his estate, which he dividedamonghis brothers and sisters.
Different scenes from the play are dividedbetweenfive couples.
Note that the formamo百思特网ngstis somethings used, but is more formal thanamong.
I heard that flour was being distributedamongstthe cit(www.isoyu.com原创版权)izens.
3differences
You do not useamongwhen you are talking about differences. You do not say, for example, 'I couldn't see any difference among the tree chairs'. You say 'I couldn't see any differencesbetweenthe three chairs'.
应用between来表达‘不同’,而不应用among。
There was an important differencebetweenthe political analytics and the military ones.
For the 1997 election, while experts could tell the differencebetweenthe three main parties, the computer did not.