在學習英語詞匯中，有時同義詞的辨析是很不容易的，我們一般從三方面進行區分，即：語法、語義和文體。語法主要是詞性、搭配、句式等的區分；語義主要是詞義的本義、引申義、比喻義和內涵和外延等的區分；文體主要是正式和非正式、褒義和貶義等的區分。

1.路

way: Wherever there is room for an object to proceed, there is a way.

road: A road is a prepared way for traveling with horses or vehicles.

path: A way suitable to be traveled only by foot passengers or by animals.

route: A route is a line of travel, and may be over many roads.

street: A street is in some centre of habitation, as a city town or village, when it passes between houses of dwellings.

avenue: A avenue is a long, broad and imposing( 壯嚴) or principal street.，

2.時代(期)

(時期)period: It indicates any passage of time, great or small. /an extent of time of any length.

(時代)time(s): It refers to a period in history. in ancient times/ in Victoria time

(新時代)epoch: It indicates a long period of time marked by events or development of a particular kind.

The first flight into space marked a new epoch in the history of mankind.

(紀元)era: It refers to a very long period of time marked by a particular feature in a great new era of world revolution

(時期)age: It shows a particular /a fairly definite period in history. the Bronze

Age, Iron Age