Answer the following questions. Your answers should be clear and short.Decide whether the following statement is true or false, based on your understanding of the characteristics of antonyms. State your reason with one example.Contrary term
Answer the following questions. Your answers should be clear and short.Decide whether the following statement is true or false, based on your understanding of the characteristics of antonyms. State your reason with one example.Contrary terms are non-gradable and allow intermediate members in between.
【正确答案】:

FALSE. 

CONTRARY TERMS ARE GRADABLE ANTONYMS, DIFFERING IN DEGREE OF INTENSITY, SO EACH HAS ITS OWN CORRESPONDING OPPOSITE. FOR EXAMPLE, HOT AND WARM ARE SYNONYMS. THEIR DIFFERENCE LIES IN INTENSITY. CORRESPONDINGLY, THEY EACH HAVE A DIFFERENT ANTONYM. THE OPPOSITE OF HOT IS COLD, AND THAT OF WARM IS COOL. WE CANNOT REGARD COOL AS THE ANTONYM OF HOT OR COLD AS THE ANTONYM OF WARM.(MORE EXAMPLES: POOR/RICH, DESTITUTE/OPULENT)


【题目解析】:错误的。对立反义词是可分级的反义词,强度不同,因此每个反义词都有其对应的反义词。例如,hot和warm是同义词,它们的区别在于强度。相应地,它们各自有不同的反义词。“热的(hot)”的对立面是“冷的(cold)”,“温暖的(warm)”的对立面是“凉爽的(cool)”。我们不能把“凉爽的(cool)”视为“热的(hot)”的反义词,也不能把“冷的(cold)”视为“温暖的(warm)”的反义词。
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