第13讲 人称与物称.pptVIP

Inanimate/Impersonal Subject vs.Animate/Personal Subject Check of Your Preview 1. Modesty becomes youth. 2. A decade of the traffic police job in the city center has hurt his hearing. 年轻人应该彬彬有礼。 因为在市中心当了十年交通警察，他的听力受到了损伤。 Combining inanimate or impersonal subjects with animate verbs is prevalent in English, but the structure seldom occurs in Chinese languages except for personification. The subjects are usually time place, or nouns showing natural phenomenon or notions showing people’s physiological or psychological feelings, or nouns functioning as specific behaviors or actions. 1. time The early 1600’s saw the beginning of a great tide of emigration from Europe to North America． The 1970s brought a decline in eating out , but the 1980s , especially in homes where both parents were working , brought a big increase in the demand for many types of restaurants. 17世纪初期，移民的大潮流开始从欧洲流到美洲。 七十年代到外面就餐的人减少了, 但到了80 年代,特别是在那些父母双亲都在外工作的家庭中, 人们对多种形式餐馆的需求有了很大增长。 2. place The curiosity shop detained him for almost three hours． The very spot always reminded him of the accident which took away Sylvia’s life． 他在古玩店呆了大约三个小时，因而耽搁了。 每回看到这个地方，他就会想起夺走西尔维娅生命的那次事故。(compare这个地方总使／提醒他) 3. natural phenomenon The morning sun greeted us as we came out on the deck． Dusk found the child crying in the street. 我们迎着朝阳来到甲板上。 黄昏时，小孩在街上哭了起来。 4. physical or psychological feelings Astonishment, apprehension, and even horror oppressed her. Astonishment deprived me of my power of speech． My conscience told me that I deserved no extraordinary politeness. 惊讶、担忧甚至恐惧折磨着她。 我惊讶得说不出话来。 凭良心讲，你待我礼貌有加，我却受之有愧。 My mind went numb when I saw the gun pointing against our car window as we pulled out of the garage. A spirited discussion springs up between a young girl who says that women have outgrown the jumping-on-a-chair-at-the-sight-of-a-mouse era and a major who says that they haven’t. 我们刚把车开出车库，我就看见那支手枪顶住车窗玻璃，顿时我的脑子便麻木了。 （席间）一位年轻的女士同一位少校展开了热列的讨论。年轻女士认为，妇女已经有所进步，不再象过去那样一见到老鼠就吓得跳到椅子上；少校则不以然。 Prac