在英語口語和寫作中，有什麼比very important更好的表達？

01-03

每次想表達「很重要」的時候，感覺除了「very important」之外，不會說其他的。詞窮的感覺好不爽。求各路大神指點。

不要用「很重要」這種模糊的表達。

比如an important person，他為什麼重要？根據語境可以換以下表達。

an influential person. (a tycoon, a Senate, etc)

a valuable person. (a senior engineer, a leader of a research team, etc)

a person critical to something. (a witness, etc)

a pivotal person. (a reformer, etc)

可以去查同義詞詞典（thesaurus）。

important常用的同義詞有critical, crucial, essential。

im·por·tant

im?p?rtnt/

adjective

of great significance or value; likely to have a profound effect on success, survival, or well-being.
"important habitats for wildlife"
synonyms:main, chief, principal, key, major, salient, prime, foremost, paramount,overriding, crucial, vital, critical, essential, significant;

central,fundamental;
informalnumber-one
"the important thing is that you do well in your exams"
of value, valuable, (highly) prized, beneficial, necessary, essential,indispensable, vital;
of concern, of interest, relevant, pertinent
"the school was important to the community"
- (of a person) having high rank or status.
  synonyms:powerful, influential, of influence, well connected, high-ranking, high-powered;
  prominent, eminent, preeminent, notable, noteworthy, of note;
  
  distinguished, esteemed, respected, prestigious, celebrated, famous,great;
  informalaffluential, major league
  "he was an important man"
- (of an artist or artistic work) significantly original and influential.
  synonyms:significant, consequential, momentous, of great import, major;
  critical,crucial, vital, pivotal, decisive, urgent, historic;
  serious, grave, weighty,material, impactful;
  formalof great moment
  "an important meeting"

沒人邀，但決定強答。

有句話怎麼說來著，外語學到最後，其水平取決於你的母語能力。

語言本身只是一門技能，怎麼用好語言則涉及到內在的修養。無論使用什麼語言，「表達什麼」和「表達方式」都需要想想清楚。

例如，當我們把問題換成：除了「非常重要」中文還有什麼別的方法來表達」非常重要「？

形容人：

1：主觀化：「沒他我活不下去」、「對我影響極深」、「我極為尊敬「、「我的人生楷模」

2：客觀化：「知名」、「受人尊敬／德高望重」、「權威」

形容事：

「產生巨大影響」、「改變世界／未來」

想想我們說母語，都有這麼多不同的方法來敘述重要性，英文也同樣適用。以上這些，都有相對應的英文可以使用。

從英語本身來說：

1: 善用副詞，也能起到唬人的效果。

把「very」換成別的，比如「extremely」,」supremely」,」remarkably」「irreplaceably」，句子立刻有不同的色彩。

2:辭彙量！辭彙量！辭彙量！

（重要的事情恨不能說八遍）

谷歌上查一下important，列出來的如下，請背熟使用：

1）形容事。（意義、價值）

例句："important habitats for wildlife"

同義詞：main, chief, principal, key, major, salient, prime, dominant, foremost, supreme, predominant, paramount, overriding, cardinal, crucial, vital, indispensable, critical, essential, significant, urgent;

2）形容人。

例句："an important senator"

同義詞：powerful, influential, of influence, well-connected, high-ranking, high-level, top-level, controlling, dominant, formidable;

3）形容有重大影響的藝術作品或藝術家：

例句："writers as important as Hopkins"

同義詞:significant, consequential, momentous, of great moment, of import, of great import, of great consequence, far-reaching, major;

extremely important可以代替very important...

critical不能代替very important，critical是重要到必不可少，very important只是很重要

essential同critical，但意思跟critical也是有差別的。

說什麼important, critical, essential, vital一個意思的，有道詞典查的吧？

說事實吧，這種形容詞沒有什麼100%可以替換的，very important就是very important，但你可以換種表達方式。

比如你想表達金錢對你來說很重要：money is very important to me.完全沒問題啊。但你也可以換種表達比如I can"t live without money.

名詞就可以替換了例如dick, cock, penis都可互相替換。

應試教育最可悲的就是，本來最簡單實用且廣泛使用的辭彙片語和表達方法，卻被冠以低級辭彙低級表達方法。換來的高級用法，又不地道，成了一股社會主義味道濃烈的Chinglish

詞都是有自己的內涵的，近義詞代替不能亂搞。如果你要表達一個東西重要，沒別的要強調的東西，就還是用important吧。

critical 特別重要，有關鍵作用

crucial 極其重要，有決定性作用

essential 基本的，必要的，沒有不行的那種重要

vital 跟維持生命有關係的重要

significant 偏向於有重要意義

considerable 相當多，需要引起注意

……

語言交流的本質，在於用簡單的語言把複雜的意思表達清楚，而不是用複雜的語言表達複雜的意思， very important 是一個受用度很廣的詞，你說這個詞的時候別人不會認為你語言匱乏，但假如你在不合時宜的場合用extremly imporant,vital,crutial，別人就會認為你腦子有問題了，而你只是認為不就是替換了一個更高級的辭彙嘛，變得更有逼格。

英語辭彙對事物的表達可以達到非常非常精確的程度，在這一點上，漢語是不如英語的，尤其是涉及到科學內容時，很多時候漢語是無法表達清楚的，漢語的辭彙，很多情況下是需要你去琢磨意思的，而英語不需要。

你用漢語的思維去理解英語，以為把very important 替換成高級辭彙，就像漢語中把「非常」替換成「很」一樣，這種認識本來就是錯誤的。

尤其是在口語中，說話要說大多數人都能聽懂的話，而不是為了突出逼格用一些純書面語的辭彙，說話的首要目的是溝通交流，其次才是藝術內涵或者其他。

1.More significant/ decisive/consequential/urgent monumental/essential/paramount/vital

2.More crucial

3.More heavily dependent/ rely on something

4.Have a bigger/dominant/ fundamental (前面的單詞皆可替換）role

5. Something outweighs/overshadows something else

6. More outstanding

significant

Crucial

不是大神看到隨便答答 important的同義詞很多

或者可以用形容比如失去他相當於失去我的生命之類可以表現出重要性也更生動一點

用 It"s more important than..., It"s the most important.(已經比very important有內容了）

或者根據是為什麼重要，可以有It"s the biggest challenge. It"s our main concern. It"s critical. It"s necessary. It"s essential. It"s foundamental . It"s the bottleneck. It"s consequential. It"s fatal.

或者直接講後果。The system would fail without it. We would lose millions of dollars without it. People would die without it. The universe would explode without it.

extraordinarily significant

方法一是查詞典，主要是近（同）義詞詞典，搭配語詞典和詞源學詞典也有一定用處。推薦使用按照單詞的不同層面的含義分類列出近似單詞的近義詞詞典。以important為例

(Oxford Thesaurus)

1 an important meeting

SIGNIFICANT, consequential, momentous, of great moment, of import, of great import, of great consequence, far-reaching, major; critical, crucial, vital, pivotal, paramount, decisive, urgent, epoch-making, historic, seminal; serious, grave, substantial, weighty, signal, material, meaty.

-opposite(s): UNIMPORTANT, TRIVIAL.

2 the important thing is that you do well in your A levels

MAIN, chief, principal, key, major, salient, prime, dominant, foremost, supreme, predominant, overriding, cardinal, crucial, vital, indispensable, critical, essential, significant, urgent; central, fundamental, basic; informal number-one.

-opposite(s): UNIMPORTANT, INESSENTIAL.

3 the school was important to the community

OF VALUE, valuable, valued, useful, of use, beneficial, necessary, essential, indispensable, vital, of the essence;

OF CONCERN, of interest, relevant, pertinent, material, germane.

-opposite(s): UNIMPORTANT, IRRELEVANT.

4 he was an important man

POWERFUL, influential, of influence, well-connected, high-ranking, high-level, top-level, controlling, dominant, formidable; prominent, eminent, pre-eminent, notable, noteworthy, of note, of import; distinguished, esteemed, respected, prestigious, celebrated, famous, great, grand; leading, foremost, outstanding; informal big, big time, major league, big league.

-opposite(s): UNIMPORTANT, INSIGNIFICANT.

(WordWeb)

Adjective: important im"port(u)nt

1.Of great significance or value

"important people"; "the important questions of the day"

- of import

2.Important in effect or meaning

- significant

3.Of extreme importance; vital to the resolution of a crisis

- crucial

4.Having authority or ascendancy or influence

"an important official"

- authoritative

5.Having or suggesting a consciousness of high position

"recited the decree with an important air"; "took long important strides in the direction of his office"

See also: all important, all-important, alpha, beta,big, burning, cardinal, central, chief,consequential, Copernican, critical, crucial,decisive, distinguished, earthshaking, earth-shattering, epochal, epoch-making, essential,eventful, evidential, evidentiary, fundamental,grand, grave, great, grievous, heavy, historic,immodest, importance, importantly, in-chief,influential, key, large, life-and-death, life-or-death,main, master, meaningful, measurable,momentous, monumental, most-valuable,noteworthy, of the essence, operative,outstanding, pivotal, polar, portentous, primal,primary, principal, probative, probatory,prodigious, profound, remarkable, serious,significance, strategic, valuable, weighty, world-shaking, world-shattering

Antonym: unimportant

Encyclopedia: Important

方法二是用在線語料庫，比如想用important形容一個人，就可以搜索由形容詞加上person構成的短語有哪些，然後語料庫網站就會返回給你在特定文本中具體出現了哪些短語以及這些短語出現的次數。一些在線語料庫還提供了歷史演變，近義詞搭配的功能。

xxx is of the utmost importance?