▲你说得对,as a boy可以表示“当……还是一个孩子的时候”,相当于when sb was a boy。类似地,英语也可以说 as a child(当还是个孩子的时候)、as a little girl(当还是个小女孩的时候)、as a student(当还是学生的时候)、as a teenager(当还是10多岁的时候)、as a young man / as a you...
回答于 2014-08-14 23:39
对于这个问题,我有点稍不同的看法,提出来与大家探讨,不妥之处,请各位老师指正。 ▲我觉得英语是可以用no one…表示“没有一个……”的,且语气比单独用no稍强。比较: No journalist was bold enough to take on the Prime Minister. 没有哪个记者大胆到敢与首相较量。 No one jou...
回答于 2014-08-13 00:17
▲没错,but后面通常是不用逗号的,但下面一句中but后面的逗号用得是恰当的:But, three days later, a letter arrived, calling me to Groydon foran interview with the headmaster.比较下面一句(没有用逗号):But a letter arrived three days later, calling me to Groydon for aninterview with the headmaster.▲b...
回答于 2014-08-12 23:48
只要语法需要,两个并列的介词共同带一个宾语是完全可能的。你提到的 to and from 就是一个比较典型的例子。其他例子如: 1. in and out of we were in and out of each other’s flats all the time. 我们彼此常串门儿。 he was in and out of jail for most of his twenties. 他二十几岁时几乎一直频繁进出...
回答于 2014-08-12 23:30
▲day after day用作主语的例句Day after day passed by without a line from him. 一天天过去了,没有他的一点消息。(张道真主编《现代英语用法词典》)▲类似day after day的短语用作主语1. Wave after wave of aircraft passed overhead. 一批又一批飞机从上空掠过。(《朗文当代英语辞典》)2....
回答于 2014-08-08 23:33
根据《朗文英语语法》第16.22节:少数几个动词如 believe, expect, intend,like, love, mean, prefer, understand, want 和 wish 等后面还可以跟 thereto be。 下面是相关的例句: I didn’t expect there to be such a crowd. 我没想到会有那么大一群人。 We’d prefer there to be an adult in charg...
回答于 2014-08-05 23:22
《牛津高阶英汉双解词典》对 anyway 的解释是:whatever the facts may be; in spite of this; atleast(无论如何;即使如此;至少)。在具体的语境中,翻译时可灵活处理。下面只是试译(应该还有更好的翻译): Anyway, I must be going now. 无论如何,我现在得走了。 It’s something I can’t tell y...
回答于 2014-08-05 23:03
同意黎老师的分析!turn to sb 的意思是“求助于某人”,turn to sb for sth 的意思是“求助某人得到某物”。在 Without someone to turn to for advice, making the most appropriatechoice can be difficult. 一句中,Without someone to turn to for advice 为 without 引出的复合结构。句子大意...
回答于 2014-08-05 22:41
在下面这组同义句中:I took him to be the manager.= I took it that he was the manager.take表示“认为”“以为”,它通常用于 take sb / sth to be…这样的句子。又如:I took her to be his daughter. 我以为她是他的女儿。I took you to be an honest man. 我原以为你是诚实的人。I took the man with him to be his fathe...
回答于 2014-08-05 22:25
well accustomed 用法的例句: He was well accustomed to hard work.(《牛津英语搭配词典》) Variety theatre audiences, however, are well accustomed to foreign artists speaking in strange tongues.(H.W.Fowler 著《现代英语用法词典》)
回答于 2014-08-05 11:39