作者:opple 时间:2022-09-30 阅读:()
7. I do not know Mr. Flynn, i.e., do not know him well enough to say if he is absolutely reliable.
句型[被说明的部分,+to be more exact,/or more correctly,/or rather+说明部分]
1. Three weeks tomorrow, to be more exact (or more correctly), the 10th of May is my birthday.
2. This is a pillar, or more correctly, a column. 3. It is a hut or, to be more exact, a cowshed.
4. His theory, or rather, hypothesis, was not unobjectionable.
5. We got home late last night, or rather, early this morning.
正反判断句
句型[主语+be+not+表语A,+ but+表语B]/[主语+be+表语B+and (或but) not+表语A]
1. I am very ill, not bodily, but mentally.
2. What I admire in Columbus is not his having discovered a world, but his having gone to search for it on the faith of an opinion.
3. The tragedy is not in not knowing, but in not knowing that you don't know.
4. The Marxist-Leninist theory is not a dogma, but a guide to action.
5. He is an ordinary worker, and not a cadre.
6. It is yours, and not mine. (=it is not mine, but yours.)
句型[(It is) not…that (who)…, but…that (who)…]
1. (It is) Not that I dislike the work, but that I have no time.
2. Not that we are afraid of difficulties, but that they are afraid of us.
3. It is not heroes that make history, but history that makes heroes, and that, consequently, it is not heroes who create people, but the people who create heroes and move history onward.
句型[So far from being+表语,主语+谓语+其他]
1. So far from being a help, he was hindrance. 2. So far from being true, the news is false.
3. So far from being ashamed of it, he glories in it.
[注] 在一般陈述句中仅用far from也可以表示一正一反的意义, 如: Far from praising him, I must positively blame him.
句型[主语+seem等感觉动词+表语,+ but+in reality/ in fact/ in essence+…]
1. That sounds all right, but in reality it is not.
2. This may seem a bad thing, but in reality it is a good thing
3. He looks ignorant, but in fact he is very clever.
4. The two things though similar in form are different in essence.
5. He appears to be well, but really he is rather ill.
6. He thinks himself as wise as Solomon, but in reality he is a complete fool.
[注] instead of可以用来表示正反判断,如:We must work hard instead of spending our time idly.
比较判断句
句型[主语+be+less表语A+than+表语B]/ [主语+be+more表语B+than+表语A]
1. Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal. The winner is he who gives himself to his work, body and soul.
2. It is even more a picture than a poem. 3. He is more shy than (he is) unsocial.
4. A river that carries so much silt per cubic meter (590 kilograms-over half a ton) is more like liquid land than water
[注1] more后面如果跟形容词,形容词要用原级,如:(正)He was more angry than frightened.
(误) He was more angrier than frightened. (误) He was angrier than frightened.
[注2] 成语 "more dead than alive" (劳累已极、累得要死) 是一种夸张的说法,原意是"与其说还活着,不如说是死了。"如:"Oliver, more dead than alive, could answer 'Yes'.
句型[主语+be+表语B+rather than+表语A]
1. He is an ordinary worker rather than a cadre. 2. He is rather diligent than clever.
3. The patient was worse rather than better. 4. He is an artist rather than a philosopher.
句型[主语+be+not so much+表语A+as+表语B]
1. He is not so much a scholar as a writer. (not so much…as =less…than)
2. It is not so much the being exempt from faults, as having overcome them, that is an advantage to us.
3. It is not so much advice as approval that he seeks.
[注] 该句型也常用于行为动词作谓语的句子中。如:A man's worth lies not so much in what he has as in what he is.
The oceans do not so much divide the world as unite it.
互斥判断句
句型主语+be+(either)表语A+or+表语B]/[(Either)主语A+or+主语B +be+表语]
1. He or you are mistaken. You or he is mistaken.
2. He is at the office or at the workshop. 3. Either your brakes or your eyesight is at fault.
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