Working the land(Period 2 Learning about Language)
my sister’s being ill made we worried.我姐姐病了,使我很擔(dān)心。your being right doesn’t necessarily mean my being wrong.你正確未必就意味著我錯了。2.作動詞的賓語動名詞作賓語有兩種情況。一是有些動詞只能后接動名詞作賓語;二是有些動詞既可后接動名詞也可后接不定式作賓語。（1）只能后接動名詞作賓語的動詞,常見的有avoid,consider,enjoy,keep,finish,suggest,dislike,delay,escape,cannot help,imagine,mind,miss,practise,cannot stand等。如:i can’t avoid going.我不能不去。have you considered looking for one special friend?你是否考慮過找一位摯友?we must try to avoid repeating the same mistake.我們必須設(shè)法避免犯同樣的錯誤。do you feel like having a walk with me after supper?晚飯后你想和我一起散步嗎?people couldn’t help laughing foolish man.人們?nèi)滩蛔〕靶δ莻�愚蠢的人。 這類動詞還有:excuse,fancy,give up,put off,risk等。（2）既可接動名詞又可接不定式作賓語的動詞,常見的有:begin,start,continue,like,love,prefer,by,mean,forget,remember,hate等。a.在like,love,hate,prefer等動詞之后,用-ing或不定式意義上沒有什么不同,只是側(cè)重點有些不同,動名詞表示泛指的動作,不定式表示具體的一次性動作。例如:i considered going,but i have this composition to write.我考慮要去,可是我要寫這篇作文。i enjoy learning about new things from politics to sports and music.我喜歡從政治、體育及音樂等方面學(xué)習(xí)新的事情。we believe that many more people will prefer to travel by air.我們相信將會有更多的人喜歡乘坐飛機旅行。在would like/love/prefer之后,只能用不定式。例如:i’d prefer to do that tomorrow.這事我想明天再做。i’d like to do some shopping,but not during the day.我倒是想去購物,但又不想白天去。i’d like you to meet dr zhang.我想讓你見一見張醫(yī)生。oh,i would love to be a contestant.噢,我倒是想做個參賽者。b.在begin/start,continue之后,用動名詞和不定式,意義無甚區(qū)別,尤其是當(dāng)主語是人的時候。例如:jazz started developing in the 1920s in the southern states.20年代爵士音樂在美國南部各州開始發(fā)展。the ship started to leak and begin to fill with water.船體開始出現(xiàn)漏洞,并開始進水。hank started to walk through the carriages to get back to his seat.漢克開始走回他自己坐的車廂。journalists have to stop working on one story and start working immediately on the important new one.新聞記者不得不停下手中所寫的,立刻開始寫最新的重要新聞。當(dāng)begin/start 與see,think,feel,understand等動詞連用時,用不定式。例如:they began to understand how important the forest is.他們開始明白森林有多么重要。begin/start用進行式時,只能后接不定式。例如:i was beginning to wonder if it was easy enough to go on the climbing.