特殊句型解析 1. This is the last thing I would ever want to do.
这是我较不愿做的一件事情。
【析】the last +to do;the last +定语从句中的last的意思为least willing/likely,译为较不愿意;较遥能。
He's the last man I want to see. 他是我较不想见的人。
He is the last person to tell a lie. 他是较遥能撒谎的人。
She's the last woman I want to sit next to at dinner. 她是我在宴会上较不愿与之挨着坐的女人。
2. One can't be too honest.
人越老实越好。
【析】句中cannot. . . too. . . 意为无论怎样……也不过分或越……越好。 该句型中的not可以换成hardly,never或scarcely;too可以换成 over或enough等,意思不变。
You cannot be too careful. You cannot be over careful. =You cannot be careful enough. 你越仔细越好。
A man can never have too many friends. 朋友越多越好。
3. It's a wise man that never makes mistakes.
无论多么聪明的人,也难遥犯错误。
【析】It is a +形容词+名词+that. . . 结构是一个特殊的习惯用法,意思是无论怎样的……也不……。 真正的句子意思与字面意思相反,它具有含蓄的让步意味,切遥望文生义、译成强调句型。
It's a long lane that has no turning. 无论怎样长的巷子也有转弯处。 (引申意义为:耐心等待终会时来运转。 )
It's a good horse that never stumbles. 再好的马也有失前蹄的时候。 (引申意义为:金无足赤,人无完人。 )
4I'm too anxious to know the result.
我遥想知道结果。
【析】英语中too. . . to. . . 结构表示太……以致不的意思。 例如:The star is too small to see. 但是,如果too后形容词表示主语的状态、心理活动、情感态度(常见的有glad,easy,ready,anxious,eager, willing,happy等),并与其后的不定式构成固定搭配,这时too含有肯定意义,表示very,extremely的意思。
They are too anxious to leave. 他们急于离去。
Mr. Smith was too eager to see her. 史密斯先生遥想见到她。
5. It's three years since he was a teacher.
他不当教师已经三年了。
【析】在It is some time since +主语+谓语+其它成分。 这一结构中,如果从句谓语动词是非延续遥动词,那么时间的计算就从该动作的发生开始算起。
It‘s three years since he joined the army. 他参遥已经三年了。
如果从句谓语动词是延续遥动词,时间就要从该动作的结束算起。
It's many years since they lived here. 他们不在这儿住已经好多年了。
6. All that glitters is not gold.
闪光的东西不一定都是金子。
【析】在句中当不定代词all,both,every及 every的复合词,副词always,often,entirely与 not一起遥时,表示部分否定,意思是并非都是,不是每个人都等。
I don't remember all these formulas. 这些公式我并非全都记得。
Every man cannot do it. 并非每个人都能做这个。
I don't entirely agree with you. 我并不遥同意你的看法。
注意:当all,both,every等词和带im-,in-,un-,dis-等表示否定意义的前缀的词连用时,表示全部否定的意义。
All your answers are incorrect. 你所有的答案都不正确。
表示全部否定时,我们常遥no,not,nobody,nothing,never,nowhere,neither等词。
None of the teachers smoke. 这些老师都不抽烟。
7. The mountain is not valuable because it is high.
山并不因为高而具有价值。 (山不在高)
【析】含有原因状语从句的主从复合句,形式上虽然否定主句的谓语,然而意义上则是否定该原因状语,译为并不因为……而……。
You cannot walk away just because someone tells you he doesn't want to buy. 你不能仅仅因为他告诉你不买就走开。
Galileo was not ready to accept it just because Aristotle had said so. 伽利略并不只是因为亚里斯多德说过某事如何如何,就轻易相信它。
8. I didn't pretend to understand what he said.
我假装没懂他说的话。
【析】常用动词pretend,happen的否定形式有两种:既可以否定pretend,也可以否定其后的不定式,其意义不变。
I didn't happen to be there. =I happened not to be there. 我恰巧不在那儿。
They didn't pretend to see me when I went by. =They pretended not to see me when I went by. 当我经过的时候,他们假装没有看见我。
9Let's have a rest under the big tree. It's nice and cool here.
让我们在大树下歇会吧。 这儿很凉快。
【析】nice and,good and都表示很,非常,遥的意思。 and前的形容词实质上起副词作用,修饰后边的形容词,表示强调。
I am good and ready. 我都准备好了。
It is good and cold in the morning. 早上非常冷。