評論
打印
Do you know Candy?
今天和大家討論用Do you know?的問句，Do you know？就是問別人：‘你知不知道？你懂不懂？’如果問你懂不懂煮飯，可以說：Do you know how to cook? 你知不知道那條路？Do you know the way? 或者要問你認不認識一個叫肯蒂的女生，可以說：Do you know Candy? 如果你不認識她，可回答：I don't know her.，如果你跟她很熟，可以說：I know her very well.，如果只是泛泛之交，可以說：I'm acquainted with her.。
對話
A: Do you know Candy?
B: Candy? Does she have curly blond hair and a really beautiful face?
A: Yes, that's her.
B: Yes, I know her very well. She was my girl friend during my first year in university.
A: Really? Candy told me that she's only 19 and she's your boss' daughter.
B: Oh, Candy Cooper! My mistake. I thought you meant Candy Rose.
甲：你認不認識肯蒂？
乙：肯蒂？是否那個金色卷發的漂亮女子？
甲：對，就是她。
乙：是，我跟她很熟絡，她是我大學一年級時的女友。
甲：真的嗎？肯蒂告訴我她只有19歲，是你老板的女兒。
乙：噢，肯蒂吉譜！我搞錯了，我以為你指的是肯蒂羅絲。
某乙聽某甲談到一位金發美女肯蒂，以為是自己的舊女友說：I know her very well.（我和她很熟絡）。假如某甲帶笑問道：In the biblical sense? 讀者知道是什么意思嗎？ Biblical即‘《圣經》(Bible)的’，例如biblical language是 ‘《圣經》的語言’。In the biblical sense?等于說‘是否《圣經》里那個意思？’。
在《圣經》和其它古籍里，know字有‘和．．．有性關系’的意思。讀《御用圣經．路加福音》第一章，你就會看到天使對圣母瑪利亞說：You will conceive in your womb and bring forth a son, and shall call his name Jesus（你會懷孕，誕下麟兒，取命為耶穌）。瑪利亞回答說：How can this be, since I do not know a man?（這怎么可能呢？我沒有跟男人親熱過）。今天，英語國家的人說跟某某有性關系，有時就會用開玩笑口吻說：I know him / her in the biblical sense。
留意I know her和I know of her很不同。I know her是 ‘我認識她’，I know of her. 則是 ‘我知道她這個人’或‘我聽說過好這個人’。
說和某人交朋友，英文是to make friends with somebody，那復數形式的friends不可改為friend。為什么和一個人交朋友，都要用復數形式？原因很簡單：friends 除了指對方，還包括你自己。交朋友是至少兩個人之間的事。I should like to make friends with you. 即 ‘我想和你交朋友’。
