前此说过了定冠词的常见用法,意犹未尽。本文就来谈谈不定冠词(indefinite articles) a/an 的用法。
不定冠词最基本的用途就是用来表示一这概念,如:
① A stitch in time saves nine.
② Jason is an internationally known scholar.
此外,a/an 还有下列 6 种用途:
㈠常和time、measurement等有关的名词连用,以表示每 的概念,如:
③ I teach five days a week.
④ This type of vegetables is sold at one dollar a kilo.
⑤ My car usually runs sixty kilometres an hour.
㈡常和 hundred, thousand, dozen 以及数目及数量连用,如:
⑥ That factory turns out at least a hundred tyres a day.
⑦ Noels monthly salary is a thousand dollars.
⑧ I have a number of sponsored students.
⑨ Mary has a lot of money.
㈢在of / at后面出现,以表示同一类这概念,如:
⑩ Birds of a feather flock together.
11. Please come one at a time.
12. Things of a kind come together, so do people of a mind.
㈣常在rather, quite, many, half, what, such等字后面出现,形成固定用法,如:
13. Tom is rather a fool.
14. I think Chinese is quite a useful language.
15. Many a student has asked that question.
16. The visitor left half an hour ago.
17. What a fine day it is!
18. How can you say such a thing?
㈤用在so, as, too, how +形容词这些结构里,如:
19. We have not had so hot a day before.
20. Susan is as clever a girl as Anna.
21. That is too difficult a book for beginners.
22. No one knew how serious a problem it was until later.
㈥出现在许多惯用语中,如:
23. Bob always has a bone to pick with others.
24. Some students turned a deaf ear to the teachers advice.
25. All must learn a language with an eye to mastering it.
26. I hope you will make an effort to attend the meeting punctually.
27. Jason has an aversion to being idle.
28. The news of Jacks sudden resignation came as a bolt from the blue.
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Acknowledge and admit 两个表示“承认”单词的区别
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Artefacts in Sydney and dog gets medal 悉尼出土文物,英雄狗获奖章
Indian state introduces 'fat tax' 印度一省拟征收“脂肪税”
World's longest tunnel and a strange kind of race 世界最长铁路隧道,扛羊毛袋比赛
Art and football 海底发现文物,莱斯特城足球俱乐部曼谷庆功
All things to all people 八面玲珑
The cost of protecting the environment, Juno space probe 保护环境付出的代价,“朱诺”木星探测器
UN female, New flag and Apollo 11 倡议提名女秘书长,新西兰换国旗和阿波罗11号再创历史
Distinguished 和 distinguishable 之间的区别
Solar superpower, female commander and hospital demolished 太阳能超级大国,女海军司令官和著名医院化为废墟
Delhi's pollution and South Africa's solar power 新德里环境污染,南非发展太阳能
Simple, innocent, naive, pure 四个近义词的区别
Ditch 和 abandon 之间的区别
Battery risk, Farmer anti-theft solution 纽扣电池的潜在危险,牧场主防盗有术
Take part in, join in, participate, attend 四个表示“参加”的单词或短语
Ten a penny 多得遍地都是
EU after Brexit, human ancestor mystery 英脱欧公投后的欧盟,人类祖先之谜新发现
Afghanistan, cancer and athletics boss 英美支持阿富汗政府军,癌症发病原因, 国际田联官员停职
Russian athletes and friendly robots 俄罗斯运动员服用兴奋剂,“合作机器人”
Drought in Ethiopia and MS treatment 埃塞俄比亚干旱,多发性硬化治疗手段新进展
Zuma in court and stressed horses 南非总统受审和马的精神压力
Teenager, adolescent, kid and child 英语中“孩子”的几种说法
Zika threat and back from space 寨卡病毒威胁美国,国际空间站宇航员返回地球
Connection and link 两个表示“关系”的单词
Counting elephants, Australian Elvis 空中数大象,澳大利亚“猫王节”
Appreciate 和 recognise 之间的区别
Big Ben and gorilla surprise 维修大本钟,大猩猩生子
Creativity、innovation 和 originality 的区别
Zika virus and the A4 waist challenge 寨卡病毒,“A4腰挑战”