你上一次生气是什么时候?你为什么生气?你在哪里?你和谁在一起?最后发生了什么? 英语中用来帮助你描述你或他人可能经历的不同类型和程度的愤怒的表达式不下于60种,包括各种习语俚语,如 go spare,see red 或 blow one's top 等等。
当要表达使某人生气或烦恼时,比较常见且较正式的表达式是 make sb angry 或 annoy sb,例如: - Her behaviour really made me angry .
- They were afraid to complain about the noise in case they annoyed the neighbors.
今天给大家介绍一个看似简单的却有特殊含义的搭配,那就是 get to sb,它同样有惹恼别人的意思,这里的 to 必不可少。我们知道 get 的用法不少,我们可以说 get to do sth 和 get doing sth,也可以说 get sb、sth to do sth,甚至是 get to sb 等。其实这些表达式跟 get 丰富多彩的意思分不开,不同的非谓语形式对应的 get 的意思也不尽相同:一、Get to do sth 意为“开始(感觉到、认识到、成为);达到…地步(或程度)”,例如:- After a time you get to realize that these things don't matter.
- You'll like her once you get to know her.
二、get doing sth 意为“开始,开始做”,例如:
- We need to get going soon.
在一些场合,get to do sth 还可以意为“有机会(做…);得到(做…的)机会”,例如:- It's not fair─I never get to go first.
三、get sb/sth to do sth,是使役用法,意为“使,让(某人或物做某事);说服(某人做某事)”,例如:
- I couldn't get the car to start this morning.
- He got his sister to help him with his homework.
上面三者是 get 与非谓语之间的关系,其中的 to 是不定式的标识符,然而 get to sb 中的 to 是介词,它是一个习语,意为“使烦恼;使生气;对某人产生影响”,例如:- The pressure of work is beginning to get to him.
- The heat was beginning to get to me, so I went indoors.
- I know he's annoying, but you shouldn't let him get to you.
此外,当 get 后面接介词 to 时,还有其他的用法,比如意为“到达,抵达”,此时后面接地点名词,例如:- We got to San Diego at 7 o'clock.
- Generally I get to work at 9.30am.
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