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尽管有时可以看到“very terrible”，但还是看作该用法是错误的为好。 ——请不要以语料库为准，因为那里的内容算是语言材料的一个集成，并非“准确”。 《朗文高阶英汉双解词典》第2280页very词条用法说明 Grammar语法 Do not use very to emphasize adjectives or adverbs that already have strong meanings, such as “starving”, “huge”, “terrible” etc. very不能用来强调本身已表示程度很深的形容词或副词，如starving, huge, terrible等等。 By the time I got home I was exhausted (不用very exhausted). 我到家的时候，已经筋疲力尽了。 Do not use very before phrases that begin with “in”, “on”, “at” etc. In formal English, you can use very much instead. very不能用在以in, on, at等开头的短语中。在正式英语中，此时可以用very much： His life is very much in danger (不用very in danger). 他的生命处在极度的危险中。 《新时代英汉大词典》第2620页very词条 very不能修饰本身含有“绝对”或“极限”之意的形容词，这些形容词包括absurd, awful, brilliant, enormous, essential, excellent, furious, huge, massive, perfect, splendid, terrible, wonderful等。 《韦氏高阶英汉双解词典》第2168页terrible词条 terrible 1: very shocking and upsetting恐怖的；可怕的；骇人的 terrible 2: verybad or unpleasant 糟糕的；令人极为不愉快的 《韦氏高阶英汉双解词典》第1033页huge词条 huge: very large; very great in size, amount, or degree （在体积、数量、程度等方面）庞大的；极大的；巨大的 《柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典》第2586页starving词条 If you say that you are starving, you mean that you are very hungry. 饿极了的；饿得慌的 Apart from anything else I was starving. 别的不说，我饿坏了。 《柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典》第2737页terrible词条 我们看该词典给出terrible的四种不同含义： 1.A terrible experience or situation is very serious or very unpleasant. 非常严重的；骇人的；糟糕的 2.If you feel terrible, you feel extremely ill or unhappy. If you tell someone that they look terrible, you mean that they look as if they are extremely ill or unhappy. （感觉或看起来）病得很重的，心情很糟的 3.If something is terrible, it is very bad or of very poor quality. 质量极差的；很糟糕的 4.You use terrible to emphasize the great extent or degree of something. （用来加强语气）十足的，，极度的，不折不扣的 我们看到词典中的terrible本身即含有very或extremely程度副词，表达的是极端的意义。如此terrible前添加very一是属于重复；二是因为terrible本身是极端形容词，不可使用very来修饰。 ——也算是一种解法吧。 2017年8月09日 |
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