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feel like究竟什么意思?
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feel like究竟什么意思?

 

——译林版《牛津高中英语》模块一中的一处失误

 

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译林版《牛津高中英语》(模块一 高一上学期)(200612月第次印刷)p64

7  I feel like we have to punish him or he won’t respect us. (page 23, line 52-53) 我觉得我们得惩罚他一下,要不然他会不尊重我们。feel like意思是“想要”,一般后接名词、代词或动名词,在口语中有时也接从句。

从以上可以看出教材的编者认为 I feel like we have to punish him or he won’t respect us.中的 feel like 意思是“想要”,然而在例句中其对应的汉语却是“……觉得……。”两者之间却有天壤之别,那么此处的 feel like 究竟什么意思?

吕志士、袁锡兴在其主编的《英语惯用法大词典》(中国科学技术出版社199412月第1)p764给出了明确的答案:

(4) 在口语中,feel like 后面可接由 that 引导的从句,意思与 feel as if 相同,作“感觉好像……”解。如:

I feel like (that I am sitting on pins and needles.

He felt like (that) he was going to faint.

由此可知:feel like后面接由that引导的从句时,意思与feel as if 相同,作“感觉好像……”解,而不是像译林版《牛津高中英语》所说的作“想要”解。

同时,这一说法可以从以下资料中得到印证:

1.“英语语法网”之“feel like 用法详解”(www.yygrammar.com/Article/200811/892.html):

注:后接句子时,其中的 like 相当于 as if as though。如:

I felt like [as if, as though] I was swimming. 我觉得好像在游泳似的。

Alice felt like [as if, as though] she was in a very nice dream. 艾丽斯觉得她好像在做一个美梦。

2. 萧凤歧编著《现代英语惯用法实例词典》(北京理工大学出版社 1989 10月第一版)p327

在非正式的口语里,feel like 后面可以接 clauses feel as if 同义。例如:

“How do you feel?” Manny asked brightly. “Feel? How do I feel? I feel like I’m two hundred years old and red hot pincers are pulling at my chest.” ( Lee Langley[Eng.] 1980)

实例表明,feel like 后面可接两个 clausesclauses 里的谓语可用实际时态。

3. N. D. Turton and J. B. Heaton主编的Longman Dictionary of Common Errors (Eleventh impression 2003) p135

P In some places you feel like you are in a jungle.

Feel like (and feel as if /though) are followed by a clause:

I felt as if everyone was staring at me. (=It seemed as if….)

4. Michael SwanPractical English Usage即《英语用法指南》(第二版 翻译本)(郑荣成等编译,外语教学与研究出版社 20009月第1版) p273

Alice felt as if/though she was in a very nice dream. 艾丽斯觉得她好像在做梦。(也可以说:Alice felt like she was…

 

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