☞我们一般用whether or not来表示“是否……”的意思,上面的例句我们也可以将or not放在句子末尾使用: I have no way of telling whether what he says is true or not. ☞whether和weather虽然读音相同,但意思可完全不同。weather表示“天气”,千万不要和whether混淆哦。 知识拓展点: He left the office early today because he felt a bit under the weather.
☞allow for可以用来表示“考虑到;顾及”的意思,和take something into consideration的意思相同: The jury were asked to take the age of the accused into consideration. 知识拓展点: Smoking is not allowed in this place.
☞vacation可以表示“假期”的意思,主要用在美式英语中。take a vacation就表示“度假”的意思,需要注意的是,“度假”可不能用have vacation这种说法哦,这是一种典型的中式英语的思路。我们一般用on vacation来表示度假的状态: I'm on vacation this week. ☞once in a while表示“偶尔”的意思。除此之外,我们还可以用once in a while、now and then等短语来表示相同的意思。 知识拓展点: The professor is vacationing in Europe.
☞in part表示“部分地”,和partly的意思相同。所以上面的例句还可以写为: The decay of the temple is partly due to acid rain. ☞我们还可以用large或the most来修饰in part的程度。例如,如果想表示“寺庙腐坏的大部分原因在于酸雨。”我们则可以说: The decay of the temple is due, in large part, to acid rain. 知识拓展点: She is a woman of many parts: musician, writer and actress. |
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