If homophones seem confusing to you, you’re not the only one.

如果同词你感到困惑，没关系，不止是你一个人。

Chinese in Braille is based on pinyin, not characters. But the language is replete with homophones.

中文的盲文是在拼系统，而不是汉字的结构基础上建立起来的。可是中文里有很多同异形词。

This word is a homophone, that means it sounds the same as this word.

这个词是一个同词，也就是说，它和这个词听起来一样。

Sounds like it could be clang association.

这听上去像是 同字联想症。

Yu also sounds like " prosperity" in Chinese, so that's why we eat it.

“鱼”在中文里和“余”同，所以我们喜欢吃这道菜。

Maybe we should use rhymes and words with similar sounds in more of our stories.

也许我们应该更多使用押韵词和同词在我们的故事里。

If you Peek at my script, you'll know what homophones I want to talk about.

如果你偷看过我的脚本，就会知道我想说什么同异义词了。

Jokes. What makes them funny? You know, it's those homophones and double entendres.

笑话为什么会好笑？就是因为那些同字和双关。

They're homophones. To catch all of the videos in this 30-day challenge, be sure to sign up for my mailing list. It's absolutely FREE.

它们是同异形词。如果你想观看这次30天挑战的所有视频，记得订阅我的邮件，它是全免费的。

So that you can spend some time after the quiz just looking into these different words, see how they're used, maybe especially compare them to the other homophones that I'm going to share with you on screen now.

这样你就可以在后花一些时间来研究这些不同的单词，了解它们的用法，尤其是将它们与我现在要在屏幕上与你分享的其他同异形词进行比较。

Context also helps guide us towards the intended meaning of words with multiple interpretations, like " bat, " or " crane, " or in cases of homophones like " no" or " know."

语境也能引导我们正确地理解多义词，比如 “bat（蝙蝠/球棒）” 或 “crane（鹤/起重机）”，或者同字，比如 “no（不）” 和 “know（知道）”。

The route, " route, " sometimes called the route (pronounced " root" ), both pronunciations are possible, is the path or the direction that the bus goes.

路线（route），有时发是/ru：t/(与root同)，两种发都可以，是指公共汽车经过的轨迹或者方向。

Not " Lutts" . I'm looking for Butts. Yes, I'm trying to get ahold of Butts. Very funny. I don't have time for this foolishness.

不是拉茨，我要找巴茨[与" 屁屁" 同]。是的，我要找巴茨[与" 屁屁" 同]。很好笑。我没时间跟你犯傻。

In spite of her students making jokes about her name (this time they called her " Rolling Stone" ), she enjoyed teaching.

尽管学生们常拿她的名字开玩笑，叫她滚石（英语中Rowling与rolling同），她仍然非常喜欢教书。

You'll still encounter it, but the homophony, the fact that the two words sound the same - phat and fat - has made it ambiguous.

大家仍然会遇到这个词，但是它的同异意词——即两个单词的发相同：phat和fat，使得它具有了模棱两可的意思。

It's a joke. It relies on the homonymic relationship between " tick, " the bloodsucking arachnid, and " tic, " the involuntary muscular contraction.

这是笑话，同词嘛" tick" 是指吸血蜘蛛，而" tic" 是无意识的肌肉痉挛。

A smaller group used disfavoured homonyms of scientific terms, like one grant concerning earthquakes and tsunamis, which cited " trans-crustal processes" .

一小部分人使用了不受欢迎的科学术语的同词，例如一项有关地震和海啸的拨款，其中引用了“trans-crustal processes”。

By saying only their kidnapping could cause such a mistake, the writer drives home that they would never mix up these homophones.

创作者的意思是，只有他们被绑架才会导致这样的拼写错误，作者强调他们绝不会混淆这些同异形异义词。

These two words are highly confusing homonyms and most of you don't understand which one to use when, in a sentence.

这两个词是非常容易混淆的同异义词，你们大多数人都不知道在句子中使用哪个词。

A homonym is a word that sounds the same or spelled the same as another word, but has a different meaning.

同异义词是一个发或拼写与另一个单词拼写相同但含义不同的词。