21、他是一位很有经验的教师,学生提什么问题他都不在乎.
[误]He is a too experienced teacher to care what kind of question the students may ask.
[正]He is too experienced a teacher to care what kind of question the students may ask.
注:如果按正常的词序,则He is a too experienced teacher.(他是一位很有经验的教师.)不能算错,但是由于此句以too```to结构贯穿整个句子,这就必须将too 和experienced提至冠词之前.
22、假期从明天开始
[误]The vacation begins from tomorrow.
[正]The vacation begins tomorrow.
注:中文的"从"字在这种场合最不需译出来的.其他场合也不需译成from.
例如:"新学期从四月开始."
The new term begins on the 5th of April
"茶会从六点开始"
The tea party begins at six o'clock.
"教育从一个人出生开始"
Education begins with a man's birth.
例句中的tomorrow,是一个副词,副词前不可以用介词的.
April,the 5th,six o'clock ,birth 都是名词.
23、我很高兴接受你的邀请
[误]It gives me much plesure in accepting your invitation.
[正]It gives me much pleasure to accept your invitation.
#I have much pleasure in accepting your invitation.
#I take great pleasure in accepting your invitation.
注:take great pleasure=grealy enjoy.如说,have the pleasure 则后不接in 而接of ,如Ihave the pleasure of accepting your invitation.也是通的,不过此种语法多用于下类句中:May I have the pleasure of taking a glass of wine with you?/I once had the pleasure of being introduced to you ./I am sorry I cannot have the pleasure of accompanying you today./I hope you will give me the pleasure of dining with me at 8 o'clock tomorrow evening at my place.
24、、他是我父亲的朋友
[误]He is a friend of my father
[正]He is a friend of my father's.
注:名词前面的属格,可代定冠词用,如my brother's wife = the wife of my brother.又my brother's friends=(all)the friends of my brother.如果不是指某一个特定的人或几个人时,则须用不定冠词(a),那是不能用属格来代替饿,即是用了属格,还得有不定冠词,但我们又不能说my brother's.这种表现法所含有的意味是a friend (that is)my brother's 或 one of my brother's friends.这便是英语的双重属格的由来.
25、该校有三千名学生
[误]The school has three thousand students.
[正]There are three thousand students in the school.
注:英语动词have 有三义:
(1)物质上的所有,如I have a lot of friends.
(2)身心上的具有:如Ihave a poor memory.
(3)构成上的含有:如Aweek has seven days=There are seven days in a week.例句中的have 与(3)相似,但仍是似是而非,因学校是一个地点,不是机构,学校与学生的关系,不是不可分离的,不像星期少了一天就不成.
26、他们的希望全部破灭了
[误]Their hope fell to 0.
[正]Their hope fell to zero.
注:zero,作数字时,在科技文章中普遍用作表示0,但在日常生活中,英国英语常把0叫作naught或nil,美国英语往往叫作zero.在zero用作比喻用法时,表示"希望破灭","完全没有”,不能写作0。
27、你有必要这样去做
[误]It is necessary of you to do so .
[正]It is necessary for you to do so .
注:一个形容词可以用来指“行为”,如kind,good,foolish,nice,careful,careless,这类皆是。这种形容词是不可以接用of来造句的,它只能接用for,例如It is necessary to go.
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