专家指导:英语中否定形式的表达
在英语中经常用到否定形式,除了not, no之外,英语中还有其他的形式也可表达否定形式,下面是笔者对这些形式的总结。来源:作文网
1)用no和not:
No smoking is allowed here. Not a man was seen.
He has no brothers. He is no fool.
2)用形容词:
far from, short of, free from, different from, last, poor, absent,
It is far from the truth.
I am short of money. This is the last thing I‘‘d like to do.
3)用副词:
hardly, scarcely, rarely, seldom, never, no longer, not... any longer (more), not ... at all, nowhere,
I can hardly bear it.
4)动词:
fail, neglect, miss, deny, ignore, refuse, keep from, protect from, dislike, prevent from, exclude, forbid, wonder, lack, stop,
Parents keep their children from smoking.
5)用连词:
unless,would , other than, , before, except that, or, otherwise,
I would rather die than give in.
The truth is quite other than what you think.
I thanked him before he said anything.
6)用不定代词:
none, little, few, neither, nobody, nothing, no one
Seize today, with little trust in tomorrow.
Money lost little lost, time lost all lost.
7)用介词:
without, instead of, in place of, out of, but for, beyond, except, but, in the dark, at a loss,in no respect, in no sense, by no means, under no circumstance, in no shape, in no way(case), on no condition, above, behind,
This is out of (beyond) my description.
Do you know that? No, I am in the dark.
8)用句式:
, , let alone, anything but, why not, not
He can‘‘t walk let alone run.
This is too much for me to bear.
9)用词缀:
a-, ab-, anti-, de-, dis-, mal-, mis-, non-, in-, ob, under-, -less, -free.
It is duty-free(免税). It is abnormal(不正常).