What’s the difference between draft and sketch?
Cheng Yuehui, China
This week’s question from Cheng Yuehui is about the differences between ‘draft’ and ‘sketch’.
Yang Li and Finn Aberdein present you with lots of examples to show how these words are used.
Draft and sketch 有很多不同的用法,不過最常的意思就是草稿和草圖,draft 多指文字稿,而sketch多指圖像和繪畫。
This is only the first draft of my speech, but what do you think of it?
What are you drawing?
I’m just making sketches for my next painting.
Draft and sketch 也可以作動詞。比如 to draft a proposal. To sketch out the plan briefly.
For more examples please join Yang Li and Finn for a lively discussion. 請聽節(jié)目錄音學(xué)習(xí)更多用法。
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Glossary
the first draft 一稿
sketches 草圖
to draft a proposal 草擬計劃
sketch out the plan 簡要地描述計劃