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. 請聽節目錄音學習更多用法。

Don’t forget, if you have a question about English, email it to questions.chinaelt@bbc.co.uk. We may answer it on this programme.

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