visit(ing)

1.不论用作名词或动词，现在visit在英国比在美国用得少，有下面五点该注意：

（1）在英国说医生到病家出诊，牧师到教区里的人家和公务人员的视察，都用visit。但说一般的“访问”用call而不用visit，用了visit含有“逗留几天”的意思。例如：

• He made a call on the artist the other day.
• I shall call on you this evening.
• She paid us a five-day visit last year.
• When she visited us last year, she told us a story every evening.

（2）在英国用call的场合，在美国往往用visit。

（3）visiting list（该去访问的人名单）英美通用。

（4）visiting card（或visiting-card，访客名片）是英国英语，不是美国英语，在美国反而用calling card（或calling-card）。

（5）visit在美国往往用作“叙谈”解。例如：

• I met him in the park yesterday and much enjoyed the visit.
• He had a pleasant visit with her over the telephone.
• I used to visit with him in his office.

注意第二句和第三句里在visit后面用with。

2.比较下面两句：

• He happened to be visiting shanghai（访问上海、在上海观光）at the time of the Exhilition.
• He happened to be visiting in Shanghai（在上海访问亲友）at the time of the Exhilition.