1.It作先行主語和先行賓語的一些句型
She had said what it was necessary to say。
2.強調(diào)句型
It is not who rules us that is important, but how he rules us。
3.“All+抽象名詞”或“抽象名詞+itself”(very+形容詞
He was all gentleness to her。
4.利用詞匯重復(fù)表示強調(diào)
A crime is a crime。
5.“something(much)of”和“nothing(little)of”“something of”相當于“to some extent”,表示程度。在疑問句或條件從句中,則為“anything of ”,可譯為“有點”,“略微等?!薄白g為毫無”,“全無”。“much of”譯為“大有”,“not much of”可譯為“算不上”,“稱不上”,“l(fā)ittle of”可譯為“幾乎無”。 something like譯為“有點像,略似?!盩hey say that he had no university education, but he seems to be something of a scholar。
6.同格名詞修飾是指of前后的兩個名詞都指同一個人或物,“of”以及它前面的名詞構(gòu)一個形容詞短語,以修飾“of”后面的那個名詞。如“her old sharper of a father”,可譯為:“她那騙子般的父親”。Those pigs of girls eat so much。
7.as…as…can(may)beIt is as plain as plain can be。
8.“It is in(with)…as in(with)”
It is in life as in a journey。
9.“as good as…”相等于,就像,幾乎如;實際上,其實,實在。
The merchant as good as promised the orphan boy, that he would adopt him。
10.“many as well…as”和“might as well …as” “many as well…as”可譯為“與其……,不如……,更好”,“以這樣做……為宜”,“如同……,也可以……”等等?!癿ight as well …as”表示不可能的事,可譯為“猶如……”,“可與……一樣荒唐”,“與其那樣不如這樣的好”等等。One may as well not know a thing at all as know it imperfectly。