英语杂烩 ★ English Potpourri

shaxiaozi

neutralino 发表于 18-10-2012 01:38 PM
如果你想要在报章上 find grammar error, 你不会失望的。只是多和少吧了。BBC 有时候都会让你惊奇。
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难怪报章让我觉得他们的grammar 有时候好像很随心所欲

BBC, 不会吧？ 我以为那是english 的bible 喔。

真令人失望。。。

ppr350

风满楼 发表于 18-10-2012 10:34 AM
OMG，N时间单位过去了，今天才发现你的头像在表达什么，原来厕纸把粪便当冰淇淋享用......

哈哈我当初就是觉得很可爱所以选来作为头像。

ppr350

neutralino 发表于 16-10-2012 09:10 PM
Exactly. 31# is right.
惯性的东西，可以用 present tense.

菜鸟是指刚刚学飞的鸟，常常跌跌撞撞。

neutralino

ppr350 发表于 18-10-2012 06:06 PM
菜鸟是指刚刚学飞的鸟，常常跌跌撞撞。

哦。原来是这样。也跟‘菜’有关系。Thank you.

neutralino

shaxiaozi 发表于 18-10-2012 02:45 PM
难怪报章让我觉得他们的grammar 有时候好像很随心所欲

BBC, 不会吧？ 我以为那是english 的bible ...

BBC ?  我是说‘有时候’不会‘常常’。

真的！我不是乱说的。

我觉得那是写者写太快时出现的小 mistake。

Bible？ 英国用 Cambridge.美国用 Webster.

两国的 Grammarian 都有不同的看法和用法。

其实都是大同小异。

风满楼

测试......

风满楼

ppr350

看不到。。。

风满楼

搭配 Collocations

配搭是指一对或更多单词的配合使用，而这些组合对说英语的人来说是自然、地道的，但学习英语的学生必须特意去学习和掌握这些配搭，因为这些配搭往往是猜不到的。举个例子，形容词 fast 可以和 cars 配搭，但不可以和 a glance 配搭。

我们可以说 fast cars；fast food，但我们不说 quick cars；quick food；
我们可以说 a quick glance；a quick meal 但我们不说 a fast glance；a fast meal。

掌握词的搭配是学习词汇重要的一部分。有些搭配是固定或较强的，如 take a photo，除了 take 没有其他的单词可以配搭 photo 来表达相同的意思。有些配搭则比较开放，可以使用几个不同的单词来搭配而意思相似，如 keep to/stick to the rules.

更多搭配例句：
You must make an effort and study for your exams. (不是 do an effort)
Did you watch TV last night? (不是 look at TV)
This car has a very powerful engine. It can do 200 km an hour. (不是 strong engine)
There are some ancient monuments nearyby. (不是 antique monuments)

有时候，某对搭配或许不绝对是错的，而表达的意思也能理解，但却是不自然、不正常的搭配。如果有人说 I did a few mistakes, 要理解他们想表达的意思不难，但说地道英语的人一般会说 I made a few mistakes.

风满楼

habit

good/bad habit
become a habit
be in the habit of doing something = have a/the habit of doing something (=do something regularly)
get into/in the habit (of doing something) (=start doing something regularly)
get out of the habit (of doing something) (=stop doing something regularly)
develop/form a habit
change a habit
break/kick a habit (=stop doing something which is bad for you)
change/break the habit(s) of a lifetime (=stop doing what you have done for many years)
out of habit/from habit (=because it is a habit)
(by/from) force of habit (=because it is a habit which is difficult to change)
eating/drinking habits (=the kinds of things you eat or drink regularly)
buying/spending habits (=the kinds of things you buy regularly)
viewing habits (=the kind of television shows you regularly watch)
social habits

风满楼

health

damage your health
improve your health
good/excellent health
poor/ill health
failing health (=when someone is becoming more ill)
be in good/excellent/the best of health
be in poor health
be good/bad for your health
somebody's state of health
mental health
health care
health problem
health benefits (of something)
health risk/hazard (=something that could damage your health)
health warning (=a warning printed on a product that can harm you)

风满楼

hope

hope that
(have) hopes of (doing) something
be full of hope
give/offer hope to somebody (=make it possible for people to have hope)
lose/give up/abandon hope (of something) (=stop hoping)
live in hope (=keep hoping for something)
not hold out any/much hope (=have very little hope)
in the hope that (=because you hope that something will happen)
in the hope of doing something (=because you hope that you will do it)
a vain/forlorn hope also false hope (=when what you hope for will not happen)
glimmer/ray of hope (=a little hope, or something that gives you a little hope)
a symbol/beacon of hope (=something that makes people have hope)

ppr350

请问一个英文idiom，be out of the wood是不是只能用在健康方面？还是能够用在其他的方面？

anti-mage

风满楼 发表于 19-10-2012 09:45 PM
hope

hope that

您好。最近我有遇到一种tense. 我想请问这个 "be to" 是什么情况？

What Xi Jinping must do if China is to become a real superpower

风满楼

anti-mage 发表于 10-11-2012 04:56 AM
您好。最近我有遇到一种tense. 我想请问这个 "be to" 是什么情况？

What Xi Jinping must do if Chi ...

抱歉，回复得有点迟，这里冷得可怜，不常回来

be + infinitive (例：to visit; to go; to do...) 用于：

1) 计划和安排（如正式的或官方的安排或计划）：
The Prime Minister is to visit Thailand next month.
He is nervous because he is to go overseas for the first time.

2) 命令（如家长吩咐孩子做事）：
You are to finish your homework before you play computer games.
He can go out and play, but he is to be back before dinner.

3) 条件（用在if从句，如果....发生了，......就会发生）：
If you are to pass the exam, you have to work hard.
You'd better hurry if you are to get to work on time.

等等......

风满楼

Nowhere else will you find such a good book.

这是将辅助动词置于主语前的一种倒装句，
用于否定状语置于句子前作为强调的句型：

否定状语+辅助动词+主语+谓语

否定状语：Nowhere else
辅助动词+主语+动词：will you find

这种句子结构是相当正式的。

风满楼

过去完成时态（had+过去分词）是提到两个过去的动作时，需要交代动作的前后，以免造成误解时才使用，如果没有理解上的问题，用一般过去时就可以了。

举个例子：
如果你想说： 那个人在救护车抵达前就死了。
The man had died when the ambulance arrived.
清楚交代那个人先死了(had died)，救护车才抵达(arrived)
如果你两个动词都用一般过去时：
The man died when the ambulance arrived.
听起来意思是：那个人是当救护车抵达的时候死去的。

再看这个例子：
The man died before the ambulance arrived.
虽然两个动词都用一般过去时，但before让我们了解那个人是在救护车抵达之前死去的，
所以不需要用had died来表达；当然如果用 had died 也可以：
The man had died before the ambulance arrived.
两个句子都可以接受，因为没有理解上的问题。

anti-mage

anti-mage 发表于 10-11-2012 04:56 AM
您好。最近我有遇到一种tense. 我想请问这个 "be to" 是什么情况？

What Xi Jinping must do if Chi ...

我可不可以这么说? Our restaurant is to being fully booked on this Sunday

还有这个问题，Should this not be the case, i will kill you and your family.

should 也有如果的意思？到底怎样用法？

LoboSolitario

anti-mage 发表于 18-11-2012 01:04 AM
我可不可以这么说? Our restaurant is to being fully booked on this Sunday

还有这个问题，Shou ...

Our restaurant is to being fully booked on this Sunday.
is to being --> has been fully booked/reserved
会话上显得婆妈又有语病。
"Excuse me, Sir. I am afraid that all the seats/tables have been reserved this Sunday."
直接了当就是了。

Should... 对，视内容，有如果的意思。一般上常听于有警惕/警告性的语气（如上司对下属等），非常重的口气，所以会话上别随便乱用。

风满楼

anti-mage 发表于 18-11-2012 01:04 AM
我可不可以这么说? Our restaurant is to being fully booked on this Sunday

还有这个问题，Shou ...

你那句复杂语法又不通，更糟的是听的人或许摸不着头脑，不知道你想说什么......
简单地说：
I'm sorry but we're fully booked for (this) Sunday.
通常 Sunday 已足以说明是这个星期天。