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2014-04-04

学苑创造·C版 2014年3期
关键词:英语

问:棉花糖,你好!能帮忙解答一下下面这道题吗?非常感谢!

Never have I seen ___ little fish. There are ___ little fish that I dont know how to give them to all people.

A. such; so B. so; such C. such; such D. so; so

答:本题关键是要知道such和so的用法区别,以及little的不同含义和用法。

首先,such和so的意思都是“如此,这样”。但such后面主要修饰名词,比如such beautiful girl,such fine day;so后面主要跟形容词或副词,虽然它也可以跟名词,但该名词必须是单数可数名词。比如She is so lovely a girl.

其次来看little的含义和用法。Little用作形容词时,既可表示“(体积)小的”,用于修饰可数名词单数或复数,比如a little bird、little birds;也可表示“(数量)少的”,只用于修饰不可数名词,比如little money。

第一个句子中的little是形容词,意为“小的”,修饰名词fish,fish在此意为“鱼”,是一个复数名词。根据前面提到的such和so的用法,此时横线上应该填such,“such little fish”意为“这么小的鱼”,句意是“我从来没有见过这么小的鱼”。

第二个句子本身有问题。此句中的fish只有两种可能:复数名词fish (鱼)或者不可数名词fish(鱼肉)。不论是哪种情况,fish在此句中只可能是因为“数量少”而“让我不知道如何分给所有人”。那么横线处所填的词应为so,修饰表数量少的little。不过若fish是复数名词,形容其数量少只能用few而不能用little;若fish是不可数名词,形容其数量少倒是可以用little,但其对应的代词应是it而不是句中的them。所以这句话是有问题的,正确的表达应为:There are so few fish(鱼)that I dont know how to give them to all people./There is so little fish(鱼肉)that I dont know how to give it to all people.

As sly as a fox,as strong as an ox

As fast as a hare,as brave as a bear

As free as a bird,as neat as a word

As quiet as a mouse,as big as a house

All I wanna be,all I wanna be

Oh all I wanna be

Is everything

As mean as a wolf,as sharp as a tooth

As deep as a bite,as dark as the night

As sweet as a song,as right as a wrong

As long as a road,as ugly as a toad

As pretty as a picture hanging from a fixture

Strong like a family,strong as I wanna be

Bright as day,as light as play

As hard as nails,as grand as a whale

All I wanna be

Oh all I wanna be,oh all I wanna be

Is everything

Everything at once

Everything at once

Oh oh everything at once

As warm as the sun,as silly as fun

As cool as a tree,as scary as the sea

As hot as fire,cold as ice

Sweet as sugar and everything nice

As old as time,as straight as a line

As royal as a queen,as buzzed as a bee

Stealth as a tiger,smooth as a glide

Pure as a melody,pure as I wanna be

“Everything at Once”是澳大利亚歌手Lenka的第二张专辑“Two”中的歌曲,因其灵动活泼的旋律与Windows 8电脑操作系统敏捷多变的功能相契合而被选为Windows 8广告歌曲,从而为大众所知和喜爱。

听歌时,大家首先会注意到,整首歌反复使用了“as... as ...”结构。这一结构看似简单,但却是一个重要的英语句型。该结构的基本用法有两种,第一种是在两个as中间加入一个形容词,表达一种正面衬托的概念,意为“像……一样……”,例如:He is as clever as that girl. (他像那个女孩一样聪明。

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