英语相似词辨析 outdoor,outdoors,out of doors

outdoor，outdoors，out of doors。

这三个词的意义完全不同，都表示“户外”之意，但使用场合有所不同。

Outdoor是形容词，如outdoor exercise、outdoor life、outdoor hospitals，它只能作定语形容词用。其对语是indoor。例：

You had better do some outdoor esercises every day.

你最好每天做一些户外运动。

Outdoors是名词和副词。其对语是indoors¹。例：

I love the great outdoors．

我热爱大自然／野外。

It's cold outdoors.

外面很冷。

out of doors等于。outdoors，作副词用，它们可互换使用。如：

They spend most of their time out of doors．

他们大部分的时间是在户外过的。

1 indoors   

adv.(在)室内，(在)户内

参考例句：

• Because of the coldness of the weather we stayed indoors.我们因天气寒冷呆在家里。
• It is very cold outside,you'd better come indoors across the board.外面很冷，你们所有人最好都进屋。