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25个重要集合名词用法详解 | |||
作者:flying 文章来源:本站原创 点击数: 更新时间:2011/7/30 |
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25个重要集合名词用法详解 1. army的用法 army是一个可数的集合名词,意思是“陆军”“大群”“大批”等。注意以下用法: (1) 表示军队或陆军,其前通常用定冠词;若与不定冠词或数词连用,则表示一支或几支军队。如: When I grow up, I’m joining the army. 我长大了要参军。 It was said that it was a modern army. 据说那是一支现代化的军队。 The two armies fought for control of the bridge. 两军为占领那座桥而战。 (2) army作主语时,谓语动词可用单数(视为整体)或复数(侧重个体)。如: The army was [were] called out to enforce the curfew. 军队被派去强制执行宵禁。 (3) 用于an army of表示“一群……”时,其后通常接可数名词的复数形式;这类结构若用作主语,谓语动词可用单数(视为整体)或复数(侧重个体)。如: An army of bees were flying around. 一大群蜜蜂到处飞着。 An army of workmen was brought in to build the stadium. 一大批工人被召来修建运动场。 但是,若用armies of…作主语,则谓语动词要用复数。如: Armies of rescue workers are sorting through the rubble. 救援大军正在碎石中搜寻。 2. audience的用法 (1) audience的意思是“观众”“听众”,用作主语时,其谓语可用单数(视为整体)或复数(视为个体)。如: The audience was made up of very young children. 观众都是很小的孩子们。 The audience were all moved to tears. 听众都感动得流了泪。 但有时用单数或复数均可以,只是侧重点稍有不同。如: The audience was [were] very excited by the show. 观众对演出感到非常兴奋。 (2) 由于audience 是集合名词,所以an audience 不是指“一个观众”,而是指某一群观众、某一个场次的观众、某一方面的观众等;同样地,audiences 也不是指“多个观众”,而是指多群观众,多个场次的观众,多个方面的观众等。 另外,audience作为集合名词,原则上不能用它表示个体,但every audience是例外,当要强调每一名观众时,可以这样用。如: The pianist made a conquest of every audience for which she played. 这位钢琴家以她的演奏征服了每一位听众。 (3) 形容听(观)众人数之多或少,通常用big, large, huge, mass, vast, wide以及small, thin等形容词修饰,但是不用many, few修饰。如: There was a large audience at the concert. 音乐会有大批观众。 She has never spoken to such a big audience before. 她以前从未向这么多人讲过话。 (4) 要具体表示观众的数量,可参考以下表达。如: The series has attracted an audience of more than 10 million. 这个系列片吸引了1 000多万观众收看。 There were at least three hundred people in the audience. 观众至少有300人。 不过,偶尔它也可直接受数字(通常为较大的数字)的修饰。如: Three thousand audience crowded the concert hall. 3 000名听众挤满了音乐大厅。 3. club的用法 club用作集合名词时的意思是“俱乐部的人”;若用作主语,谓语可用单数(视为整体)或复数(侧重其个体)。如: The tennis club has [have] organized a dance. 网球俱乐部组织了一个舞会。 The club has [have] decided to increase subscriptions. 会所决定增加报刊订阅份数。 4. committee的用法 (1) 用作集合名词,通常指由较大团体所委派以处理某事务的“委员会”。若视为整体,表单数意义;若考虑其个体,则表示复数意义。如: The committee was composed of elected leaders and citizens. 委员会是由当选的领导人和市民们组成的。 The committee are of the opinion that the time is inopportune. 委员们认为时机不合适。 另外,若后接定语从句,视为复数时,关系代词用who;视为单数时,关系代词用that或which: The committee who were [which was] responsible for this decision would consider it over again. 对这一决定负责的委员会是会重新考虑它的。 (2) 表示是委员会的成员,通常用(be) on the committee。如: What is your role on the committee? 你在委员会担任什么工作? The class delegated six students to serve on the committee. 班里选出6名学生担任学生会委员。 |
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