词语辨析
electric / electrical

These adjectives are frequently used with the following nouns.这两个形容词常与下列名词连用:

electric ---light,guitar,drill ,chair,shock

electrical ---equipment,wiring,signal,engineer,shock
Electric is usually used to describe something that uses or produces electricity. You use electrical with more general nouns such as equipment and wiring and things that are concerned with electricity.

* electric 通常指使用或产生电力的。

electrical与更概括的名词如equipment(电器设备)和wiring(供电线路)以及与电有关的事物搭配: an electrical fault电器故障。However, the distinction is not always so clear now.不过现在两者的区别并不总是如此明显;

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