有些小朋友搞不清complete 与 finish的区别，如下：A. completeB. finish现在把 A B 填到如下的空格里吧：She's just _____ ed a master's degree in Law.Have you not _____ ed speaking?该怎么选？虽然这两个单词在刚接触英语不久就学到，好像要区分清楚也是不大容易的！好，我们先来看个故事：
A Deadly Wife 致命的老婆
A woman accompanied her husband to the doctor's office. After his checkup，the doctor called the wife into his office alone.一个女士陪她老公去看医生。检查完后，医生请她单独进入办公室。
He said，“Your husband is suffering from a very severe disease，combined with horrible stress. If you don't do the following，your husband will surely die.”医生说，“你老公患有非常严重的疾病，伴随着高度的精神压力，如果不采取如下措施，他肯定会没命的”。
●“Each morning，fix him a healthy breakfast. Be pleasant，and make sure he is in a good mood. 每天早上，为他做一份健康早餐，保持愉快，让他心情靓靓；●For lunch make him a nutritious meal. For dinner prepare an especially nice meal for him. 午餐要营养丰富，晚餐更要精心准备；●Don't burden him with chores，as he probably had a hard day. 别拿家务活烦他，他可能辛苦了一天啦；●Don't discuss your problems with him，it will only make his stress worse. 别谈论你自己的麻烦事，这样只会让他的精神压力加重；●And most importantly，satisfy his every whim. If you can do this for the next ten months to a year，I think your husband will regain his health completely.” 而更加重要的是，要让他的每个古怪念头都得到满足。如果你这样坚持做了十个月至一年的时间，我想你老公会彻底恢复健康的！”On the way home，the husband asked his wife. “What did the doctor say？”在回家的路上, 这位家伙问他老婆，“医生说了些啥呢？”
“You're going to die,”she replied.“他说你快要死了。”她答道。
complete , finish都是多义词， 不仅仅是"完成”的意思。
complete, finish这两个单词，很多人都知道它们用作动词，其实complete还可以作为形容词，finished是finish过去式，也是一个单独的词汇，作为形容词。
一、这两个词汇都作为动词时，均含“完成”的意思。这两个词在很多情况下可以通用，如：1. The writer has completed / finished his novel. 这个作家已经写完了他的小说。2. The pupil completed / finished his homework early in the morning. 这学生一大早就把家庭作业
做完了。
区别情况：Complete “圆满结束，彻底完成，竣工”，后面要接且只能接名词或代词，通常用来表示完成某个计划、理想、事业、工程、建筑、书籍及作品等，强调“完整”，含有从头到尾使其完全齐备，补充其不足，或不完整之处，使其成为一个完美的整体，如：3. She's just completed a master's degree in Law. 她刚读完法律硕士学位。4. The project should be completed within a year. 这项工程必须在一年之内做完。【常用被动语态
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Finish “完成，结束”，普通用词，强调的是把事情“做完”了，不太在乎过程及结果，如下情况不能用complete 替代：●后接动名词时，如：5. Have you not finished speaking? 你还没讲完吗？
●用作不及物动词
时，如：6. He didn't finish in time. 他没有及时完成。
●其他表示“完成学业，精细的工作，吃东西等”，在被动结构中表达“做完了， 完了或没希望了”等时，7. He finished school in 1991. 他1991年从学校毕业。8. The wood-work is beautifully finished. 这件木器做得很精细。9. Finish a meal 吃完饭 （比较 complete a meal 做好一顿饭）；Finish a book 读完一本书 （complete a book 写完一本书）10. Now that the highway is finished, the shopping centre should thrive. 由于这条公路已经竣工, 那个商业中心一定会兴隆起来.
二、形容词时：complete和finishedcomplete “完成, 结束;（用以强调）完全的，彻底的; 齐全的;完整的" 等意思，如：11. Work on the office building will be complete at the end of the year. 办公大楼工程将于年底竣工。12. We were in complete agreement. 我们意见完全一致。13. I've collected the complete set. 我收集了全套。
Finished 完成；完蛋，失败，垮台14. I won't be finished for another hour. 我还得一小时以后才能完成。15. Their marriage was finished. 他们的婚姻完蛋了。
前面那个故事是说一个“害命”的老婆，我们再来看一个“谋财”的老婆，合起来就是“谋财害命”的老婆。
2012年，在伦敦举行的语言大赛中，圭亚那选手Samsunder Balgobin在回答比赛中最后一道问题“你如何用一种容易让人理解的方式解释complete与finish的区别”时，给出了他的答案：
16. When you marry the right woman, you are COMPLETE. 娶对老婆，你这一生就完整了/美满了。[complete形容词]
17. When you marry the wrong woman, you are FINISHED. 娶错老婆，你这一生就完蛋了。[finished形容词]
18. And when your wife catches you with another woman, you are COMPLETELY FINISHED. 让你老婆逮到你跟另一女人在一起时，你就彻底地完蛋了。
19. and when your wife likes shopping so much you are FINISHED COMPLETELY. 而当你的老婆是个购物狂时，那你也会失败得很彻底。【在这里completely前置后置都差不多】全场致以热烈的掌声！
【多么深刻的感悟啊！难怪把这两个单词分得如此清楚！】
语言学习要遵循如下规律，■语言学习要从听开始，这样才能打通语音与文字之间的连接； ■语言学习要以句子为单位进行输入输出，而非单词！这样去学，才能掌握单词的用法，这样去学，英语就会变得简单起来！ ■语言属于类运动型知识，仅仅背单词，看看书，刷刷题是远远不够的，需要去训练才能掌握！这跟弹钢琴的道理是一样的，看看书，看看乐谱就会弹钢琴？详细论述见如下链接（蓝色字体是链接）：
1. 英语训练指南：词不离句-用自带的大杀器去学习英语！
2. 秒记单词有办法，你的记忆力也是惊人的!