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10. more than +名词。译作:非……所能……。 (来源:www.EnglishCN.com)
More than words can describe.
(非语言所能形容。)
11.隐型否定比较句
(1).too……。译作: 太……(必须)……。
Three years are too long. I doesn’t want to be a postgraduate.
(三年时间太长了,我不想读研究生。)
(2). too……to。译作:过于……,以至于不……。
You are too young to go to school.
(你太小了还不能上学。)
(3).none too, not over-(构成合成形容词)。译作:并不太……。
None too disappointed.
(并不失望)
not over-hopeful about it.
(不抱希望)
五.选择性比较结构
1. had better/best。译作:最好……,还是……的好。
You’d better look before you leap.(你最好三思后行。)
2. would rather…… than。译作:与其……,不如……;宁……,不……。
Would rather break than bend.(宁为玉碎,不为瓦全)
3. better to …… rather than。译作:不如……。
Better to have a bird in hand than the ten in the air.(十鸟在走,不如一鸟在手。)
4. prefer to …… rather than。译作:宁……,不……。
Prefer to die rather than surrender.(宁死不屈)
5. prefer ……to(above, before) 。译作:宁……,不……。。
Prefer death than surrender.(宁死不屈) (编辑:赵露)
(本文作者艾临,山东工会干部学院英语副教授 ) |