1. 核心语义差异
-- Advert /ədˈvɜːrt/ (v.):
词源拉丁语"advertere"(转向),现代英语中意为"提及、注意到",属正式用语。如:
"The professor adverted to the theory in his lecture."(教授在讲座中提及该理论)
-- Revert /rɪˈvɜːrt/ (v.):
词源拉丁语"revertere"(转回),核心含义为"恢复原状/归属"。如:
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word-vs-word-cn
【Advert】 and 【Revert】 are sometimes confused because of a similar basic meaning when they are used in reference to discourse or contemplation.
【Advert】 denotes to turn from the point, topic, or incident under consideration in order to take up another. It sometimes suggests an unconscious or an illogical break in the chain of thought, but in highly discriminating use may still retain its primary implication of heeding or taking notice.
- we are but too apt to consider things in the state in which we find them, without sufficiently adverting to the causes by which they have been produced
—Burke - the distinction . . . will be rendered more apparent by adverting to that provision in the second section . . . of the constitution
—John Marshall
【Revert】 adds to 【advert】 the implication of return either consciously or unconsciously to a point or topic already discussed or previously in one's mind.
- he now drops this idea, and reverts to his reasoning on death
—Goldsmith