EVERY DAY vs EVERYDAY What is the Difference? Learn English Vocabulary

Hi, everybody. I’m Esther.

大家好。我是埃丝特。

In this video, I’m going to talk about the two similar and sometimes confusing English words

在这个视频中，我将讨论两个相似且有时令人困惑的英语单词

‘every day’ and ‘everyday’.

“every day”和“everyday”。

These two words are commonly confused in English

这两个词在英语中经常被混淆，

especially in writing,

尤其是在写作中，

but after watching this video,

但是观看此视频后，

you will have a better understanding of the difference and when to use these words.

您将更好地理解它们的区别以及何时使用这些词。

Let’s get started.

让我们开始吧。

Let’s start with ‘everyday’.

让我们从“日常”开始。

It's one word and it's an adjective.

这是一个词，也是一个形容词。

It means something that is commonplace or usual.

它的意思是一些平常的或平常的事情。

It's something that's suitable to be used on ordinary days.

是适合平日使用的东西。

Let’s look at some examples.

让我们看一些例子。

The first sentence says,

第一句话是：

‘Since we're just walking around town, I think I’ll wear my everyday shoes.’

“因为我们只是在城里散步，所以我想我会穿日常穿的鞋子。”

In this case, the word ‘everyday’ is used to describe these shoes.

在这种情况下，“日常”一词用于描述这些鞋子。

Here it means these are my usual shoes - you know shoes I wear on a normal day.

这里的意思是这些是我常用的鞋子——你知道我平常穿的鞋子。

The next sentence says,

下一句话是：

‘The worries of everyday life can drag you down.’

“日常生活的忧虑会拖垮你。”

Here ‘everyday’ is used to describe worries.

这里的“天天”是用来形容忧虑的。

What kind of worries?

有什么样的忧虑呢？

Common worries.

常见的担忧。

Worries that are usual for many people.

对于许多人来说，这种担忧是常见的。

Now, I will talk about ‘every day’.

现在，我要谈谈“每一天”。

These are two words.

这是两个词。

It is an adverbial phrase about time.

这是一个关于时间的副词短语。

It means each day or daily.

意思是每一天或者每一天。

Let’s look at some examples.

让我们看一些例子。

The first sentence says,

第一句话是：

‘I need to start going to the gym every day.’

“我需要开始每天去健身房。”

Here, it means Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday all the way up till Sunday

在这里，它指的是周一、周二、周三、周四一直到周日

- every single day.

——每一天。

And the next sentence says,

下一句话是：

‘You need to study English every day.’

“你每天都需要学习英语。”

Just like the first sentence,

就像第一句话一样，

this is saying you need to study English every day of the week.

这就是说你一周中的每一天都需要学习英语。

Now, let's do a checkup.

现在，我们来做个检查。

In this conversation, there are two sentences.

这段对话中有两句话。

In one of the sentences, we should use the two words’ every day’.

在其中一个句子中，我们应该使用“每天”这两个词。

In the other sentence, we should use the one word ‘everyday’.

在另一句话中，我们应该使用“everyday”这个词。

Take a moment to think about where we use these words.

花点时间思考一下我们在哪里使用这些词。

‘A’ says, ‘Are you busy _blank_?’

“A”说：“你忙_空白_吗？”

‘A’ is asking if ‘B’ is busy every day of the week.

“A”询问“B”一周中的每一天是否忙碌。

And so we use the two words ‘every day’.

所以我们使用“每天”这两个词。

‘B’ says, ‘Yes, my _blank_ life is very busy.’

“B”说，“是的，我的_空白_生活非常忙碌。”

We need to find an adjective to describe B's life.

我们需要找一个形容词来描述B的生活。

Something that means common or usual,

表示常见或平常的东西，

so we need to use the one word ‘everyday’.

所以我们需要使用“everyday”这个词。

Let's look at it again.

我们再看一下。

A: Are you busy every day?

A：你每天忙吗？

B: Yes, my everyday life is very busy.

B：是的，我的日常生活很忙碌。

Now you know the difference between ‘every day’ and ‘everyday’.

现在您知道“每天”和“每天”之间的区别了。

Be sure to use them correctly.

请务必正确使用它们。

Remember, it's always important to practice everything you learn in my videos.

请记住，练习您在我的视频中学到的所有内容始终很重要。

Thank you so much for watching and I’ll see you in the next video.

非常感谢您的观看，我们将在下一个视频中见到您。