雅思词汇之相似词汇辨析：experience与experiment

　　experience / experiment

　　experience: noun meaning something that a person lives through, i.e. something that someone experiences. - also used as an uncountable noun meaning 'knowledge gained by doing something'

　　experience：

　　1.名词，表示一个人经历过的事情，比如可以说something that someone experiences.

　　2.不可数名词，表示做什么事情后得到的知识。其实就是一个人的经历、经验。

　　Examples:

　　例句：

　　(first meaning)His experiences in Germany were rather depressing.

　　(second meaning) I'm afraid I don't have much sales experience.

　　(第一种意思)他在德国的经历非常郁闷。

　　(第二种意思)恐怕我没什么销售经验。

　　experiment: noun meaning something that you do to see the result. Often used when speaking about scientists and their studies.

　　experiment：名词，意思是做一些事情看结果，通常用来说科学家和他们的学生。其实意思就是实验、试验。

　　Examples:

　　例句：

　　They did a number of experiments last week.

　　Don't worry it's just an experiment. I'm not going to keep my beard.

　　上周他们做了很多实验。

　　别担心，就是试验一下，我不会留胡子的。