句是想起的内容。
I remember once being on a bus and looking at a stranger. He suddenly looked back at me-i.e.our eyes met. My instinctive reaction was to avert my gaze. It occurred to me that if I had continued to maintain eye contact, I would have been rude and aggressive.
64. \ follows that?\ happens as a result?\常常被译为\由此可见\,\因此\,\从前\,\可以推断\等等。
It follows that the housewife will also expect to be able to have more leisure in her life without lowering her standard of living. It also follows that human domestic servants will have completely ceased to exist.
65. \’s all there is to it \,意思是\也不过如此而已\。可根据上下文视情况处理。 If I’m touched, I’m touched-that’s all there is to it. 66. \ chances are that?\是一句型,译为\有可能??\。
The chances are you will never attempt that speed with poetry or want to race though some passages in fiction over which you wish to linger.
67. Feel, see, leave引起宾语的宾语补足语,或在被动语态中引起主语补足语的某些惯用句型,有时see和feel这两个词的被动式不大好译。遇到这种情况应挖掘其深层含义,不要拘泥于表面形式。 The education of the young is seen to be of primary importance.
68. 某此以no, nowhere, never, not?bout, not?any, nothing but, hardly, scarcely, seldom等否定词语引出的一些结构。
I never go past the theatre but I think of his last performance.
69. 某些用choice between, to know better, whether or, should have avoided(或done better)等表示从两种做法中选取一种更好的做法
Then we are faced with a choice between using technology to provide and fulfill needs which have hitherto been regarded as unnecessary or, on the other hand, using technology to reduce the number of hours of work which a man must do in order to earn a given standard of living.
70. 某些省略情况,应清单确认省略的内容。
The country had grown rich, its commerce was large, and wealth did its natural work in making life softer and more worldly, commerce in deprovincializing the minds of those engaged in it.
71. 修饰成分(包括定语、定语从句、同位语从句等)多而长。
Across the court from the Manhattan apartment that I have occupied for the past few years is a dog that often hurls insults into the darkness, a few of which my dog refuses to accept and makes a tart reply.
72. 一些外位语,所谓外位修饰,指从句子结构和内容上不起主要信息表达功能的部分。其作用是从语气和连接上下文等方面进行补充。在翻译成汉语时,往往可独立成句,外形上不保留修饰的痕迹。 Of course, nobody was hurt this time, because we had all been to dinner, none of us being novices excepting Hastings; and he having been informed by the minister at the time that he invited him that in deference to the English custom the had not provided any dinner
? 时间错综虚拟结构 对将来的虚拟
if…were/ were to do/ should, …would/should
对现在的虚拟 if?were?, ?would
对过去的虚拟
if…had done, would(n’t) have done
如果if引导的虚拟条件句中有should, had或were等助动词,可以省略连词if, 而把从句中的助动词should, had或were放到句首?例如:
① Were I in school again, I would study harder. 如果我(现在)再上学的话,我会更加努力学习的? ② Should it snow tomorrow, we would be very happy. 如果明天下雪,我们将会很高兴?
③ Had it not been 二? 省略if的虚拟结构 for your help, I couldn’t have finished it ahead of time. 要是没有你的帮助,我就不能提前把它做完?
在简单句中,有时假设的条件隐含在某些介词短语中?具有这种功能的介词和复合介词有without, but for等?例如:
① Without electricity, human life would be quite different today. 如果没有电,今天人类的生活就完全不同了?
② Without his advice, I couldn’t have done it all by myself. (= If it hadn’t been for his advice, I couldn’t have done it all by myself.) 如果没有他的建议,我就不可能独自做好这一切?
③ But for your help, we wouldn’t have succeeded in doing this experiment. 要不是你的帮助,我们就不可能成功地做好这个实验?
wish引导的宾语从句表示与将来事实相反的愿望,故应用would,could+动词原形 —Can you come to attend our party tonight? —Sorry, but I do wish I would.
在句型 It is necessary (strange, natural, important...)+从句结构中,从句中谓语动词要用“should+动词原形”构成,should 可以省略。
在It is time that ...句型结构中,从句的谓语动词要用虚拟结构,可以用一般过去时,也可以用should +动词原形,但should不可省略
would rather后的从句,如果从句的谓语动词表示与现在或将来事实相反,常用一般过去时,如果与过去事实相反,用过去完成时
Do you mind if we set out earlier tomorrow morning? —Well, I’d rather you didn’t.
1. “某些副词+不及物动词+主语”的句式,需要全部倒装。常用的副词主要有:here , there , now , then , out , in , down , up , away 等,表示强调。主语是代词时,不必倒装。 Out rushed the boy . Down came the brown wave .
2. 表示方位的短语放在句首,后面一般使用倒装语序。 West of the lake lies the famous city .
3. There be + 主语+地点。其中动词be也可以是其他词,如lie,stand等。 There are many different kinds of mooncakes on the table . There in Greece lived a famous thinker , named Aristotle .
4. 如果直接引语后注明是什么人说的,而且主语是名词时,需要完全倒装;主语是代词时,一般不用倒装。 “Let”s go ! ”said the captain .
“Take off your boots !” ordered the guard .
5. 用于so开头的句子,表示重复前面相同的内容,意为“也怎么样”。另外,在结果状语从句句型so ?that ?中,如果强调so?放在句首,主句需要部分倒装。 I often go out for a walk after supper . So does she . 我经常在晚饭后出去散步,她也这样。
So excited was she at the news that she couldn't say a word . 听到这个消息,她是如此激动,以致于一句话也说不出来。
6. 用于nor , neither 开头的句子,表示重复前面相同的内容,“也不怎么样”。 Li Lei can”t answer the question . Neither can I . If you don”t wait for him , nor shall I .
7. only放在句首,强调状语(副词,介词短语或状语从句等),全句语序要部分倒装。 Only in this way can we get in touch with them . Only because he was ill was he absent from school . 注意:only放在句首,强调主语时,语序不必倒装。 Only Mr. Wang knows about it
8. 带有否定意义的词放在句首,语序需要部分倒装。常见的词语有: not , never , seldom , scarcely , barely , little , at no time , not only , not once , under on condition , hardly ? when , no sooner ?than ??等。 Little did I think he is a spy . 我一点也没想到他是一个间谍。
Hardly had I reached home when it began to rain . No sooner had I entered the room than the phone rang . 9. 在虚拟语气中,倒装代替条件。
Should he be here next week , he would help us with the problem . Were there no light , we could see nothing . 10. 用于某些表示祝愿的句子。 May you succeed ! 祝你成功!
8. 带有否定意义的词放在句首,语序需要部分倒装。常见的词语有: not , never , seldom , scarcely , barely , little , at no time , not only , not once , under on condition , hardly ? when , no sooner ?than ??等。 Little did I think he is a spy . 我一点也没想到他是一个间谍。
Hardly had I reached home when it began to rain . No sooner had I entered the room than the phone rang . 9. 在虚拟语气中,倒装代替条件。
Should he be here next week , he would help us with the problem . Were there no light , we could see nothing . 10. 用于某些表示祝愿的句子。 May you succeed ! 祝你成功!
特殊结构:the?more???the?more? ?more?and?more?
?more??than?其含义可以是:?“与其说??不如说,?不是??而是” = not so much?as?
He?is?more?brave?than?wise.?他有勇无谋。
?no?more?than?强调少,意为“只有,不过,仅仅”
?not?more?than?客观叙述,意为“不超过” His?son?has?read?no?less?than?50?English?books.
?他的儿子竟然读了50本英文书。(强调多)
His?son?has?read?not?less?than?50?English?books.
?他的儿子读了不少于50本英文书。(不强调多或少)
以拉丁文-ior结尾的含有比较意义的形容词后接to?而不是than.?这些词是:
?superior,?inferior?,?senior?,?junior?,?minor,?prior(在。。。之前)?,?
当不定式(短语)、动名词(短语)或从句在某个句子中作主语时,为保持句子结构前后平衡,避免头重脚轻,因此常用it作形式主语置于句首,而将真正的主语放在句尾。此时it只起先行引导作用,本身无词义。
1.It + be + 形容词 + to do sth. / doing / that ?. e.g. It is very important to learn a foreign language.
2. It + be +名词词组 + doing / that ?.
e.g. It is a pity that you didn’t go to see the film yesterday. 3. It + be + 过去分词 + that ?.
该句型常见动词有:say, hope, think, suppose, expect, report, know, believe, decide, etc
e.g. It is believed that China will become one of the strongest countries in the world.
4. It + seems / appears / happens等不及物动词 + that ?. e.g. It seems that he enjoys pop songs very much.
当不定式(短语)、动名词(短语)或从句在某个句子中作宾语时,为保持句子结构平衡,避免句式结构的混乱,常用it作形式宾语,而将真正的宾语放在句尾。此时it仍只起先行引导作用,本身无词义。 当不定式(短语)、动名词(短语)或从句在复合宾语结构中作某些动词的宾语时(如think, make, find, consider, feel, suppose等);
e.g. I don’t feel it difficult to understand the Special English. that引导的宾语从句不能直接作介词的宾语
e.g. Would you see to it that she gets home early?
He insisted on it that he was innocent.