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在不同的语境下，do强调句表达出来的各种语用意义如下：
1. 通过强调来消除对方的怀疑（真的……）：
（1）A: Do you love me?
B: I swear it. I do love you.
2. 通过强调以增强反差（相反，……才……呢！）：
（2）You always say it doesn’t matter, but it does matter.
（3）He told me he saw a ghost, but I wonder whether he really did believe it himself.
3. 通过强调对某事物作部分认同（倒是真……，说不定真……）：
（4）He claimed to be rich and did occasionally have a ten-pound note in his wallet.
（5）Occasionally he did write a letter to his parents, but he was not the good-son type of boy at all.
（6）A: If he had believed you, he would have done something.
B: Well, perhaps he did do something about it.
4. 通过强调，对事物真正（或佯装）表现出惊讶（果然……！）：
（7）Oh, Mary, you did find a beautiful present for me.
（8）What, you did win all this money in the lottery?
5. 强调谓语，流露对所表达事物的感情（实在……）：
（9）Oh, Jane, you are so sweet. I do love you.
（10）After a long walk with her friend she said: “Oh John, let’s stop here. I do get so breathless.”
（11）I’m sorry, but the way you said that did sound funny.
6. 通过强调并重复来肯定该事物（的确……）：
（12）My sister married a crook, but it was a good thing she did marry him, or she would never have found a husband in all her life.
（13）Jack said he would come and he did come.
7. 通过强调表达一种对比：
（14）I want to weep. In fact, I do weep a little.
（15）I don’t have much contact with my family. I do see my mother sometimes, though.
8．在祈使句中，do表强意的请求，而不是命令，有时它可以使邀请对方的心意更加客气、热情、友好，而且亲切，此时的do可译为“务”、“务必”等。例如：
（16）Please do sit down.
（17）Do be careful!
（18）Do tell me all about it. I’ll keep it a dead secret.
（19）Do write to me when you get there.
通过强调手段表达的语用意义当然远不止这些，而且在这些意义之间也不能划一条十分明显的界限，一切还是取决于语境。
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