第1章 动词不定式句型
句型1:动词不定式作主语
例句:To raise wages means increasing purchasing power.
【★】:增加工资意味着提高购买力。
【句型点拨】:动词不定式作主语时,如果太长,多使用代词it作形式主语,把动词不定式移到句子后面,这样整个句子读起来语感更自然平稳一些。如果想表明不定式的逻辑主语,即动词不定式的动作执行者,可使用介词“for+名词/代词”。
To push an object through a distance is to do work.
★推动物体运动就是做功。
Not to inform them in time will cause a lot of trouble.
★不及时通知他们会引起诸多麻烦。
To be attacked by the enemy is not a bad thing but a good thing.
★被敌人攻击不是坏事,而是好事。
It is important for a scientist to look at matter from the viewpoint of movement.
★科学家用运动的观点看问题很重要。
It is necessary for us to know how to convert energy.
★我们很有必要弄清楚能量是怎样转换的。
It is impossible for heat to be converted into a certain energy without something lost.
★使热转换成某种能而没有损耗是不可能的。
It is dangerous to put your head out of the window of the train when it is running.
★在火车行驶中把头伸出窗外很危险。
It took us around half a year to map out the program for municipal construction.
★拟定市政建设规划花费了我们差不多半年时间。
句型2:动词不定式作表语
例句:The goal is to extend product life so that sales and profits do not decline.
【★】:其目的就是延长产品的生命周期,使销售和利润不衰减。
【句型点拨】:不定式作表语表示主语的具体内容,也就是表示主语的目的、结果、安排、同意、命令、决定或劝告等意义,其主语可以是抽象名词、带to的不定式或以what引导的名词性从句。不定式作表语时,如果句子主语为名词,它们常常是objective(目标,目的),object(目标),goal(目的,目标),plan(计划),result(结果),arrangement(安排),method(方法),task(任务),wish(愿望),duty(职责)等。
One of their most successful methods is to make us feel dissatisfied with ourselves and our imperfect lives.
★他们最成功的方法之一是使我们对自己和我们不完美的生活感到不满。
Not surprising in these hard times, the students' major objective "is to be financially well off".
★毫不奇怪在这些艰难的岁月里,学生们的主要目的是“追求经济上富有”。
The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.
★教育的目的在于让年轻人做好终生自我教育的准备。
Our most urgent task is to make a careful analysis of the present situation and form our policy on the basis of such an analysis.
★仔细分析当前的形势并制定符合我们自己的政策,是我们最迫切的任务。
The only thing she enjoys is (to) go to bed soon after supper.
★她唯一喜欢的事情就是吃了晚饭就睡觉。
The purpose of radar is to obtain, process, and display information.
★雷达的作用就是取得、处理和显示信息。
One way to get energy is to find something that is at high temperature, and extract the heat energy from it.
★获得能量的一种途径是找到高温的物质,并从中把热能提取出来。
句型3:动词不定式作宾语
例句:Almost every one fails to pass the driver's test on the first try.
【★】:几乎每个人都不能第一次就通过驾驶员考试。
【句型点拨】:某些谓语动词后只能用动词不定式作宾语,这些动词主要有afford, agree, ask, beg, decide, determine, desire, demand, try, offer, continue, commence, start, begin, cease, forget, remember, expect, happen, hesitate, propose, promise, prefer, want, like, proceed, resolve, seek, wish, mean, intend, regret, need, neglect, omit, refuse, decline, tend, threaten, undertake等。
They demanded to be shown the authentic documents.
★他们要求出示真实可靠的文件。
I did not think (expect) to have met you here.
★没想到在这儿能碰到你。
They preferred not to put this on the agenda.
★他们宁愿不把这项列入议程。
The ancients tried unsuccessfully to explain how a lightning is formed.
★古人曾经试图说明闪电是怎样产生的,但没有成功。
If you wish to have a good command of English, you must study hard.
★如果你希望掌握好英语,就得努力学习。
They intended to have built a water control project on its upper reaches.
★他们原想在上游建一个水利控制枢纽。
He proposed to discuss this matter at the next meeting.
★他建议在下次会议上讨论这个问题。
He endeavored to compose himself when he met with a car accident yesterday.
★昨天他遇到车祸时尽量使自己镇定下来。
A country cannot afford to be materially rich and spiritually poor.
★一个国家不能物质富有但精神贫乏。
Don't intend to know everything, or you will know nothing.
★不要期望无所不知,否则你将一无所知。
The company resolved to take no further action against the thieves.
★这家公司决定不再进一步起诉那些小偷。
句型4:动词不定式在复合宾语结构中作宾语
例句:She found it necessary to keep silent about this.
【★】:她觉得有必要对此保持沉默。
【句型点拨】:在复合宾语句型中,可以把用作宾语的不定式放在宾语补足语之后,用it作形式宾语。用作宾语补足语的可以用名词、形容词和代词,如果动词不定式有自己的逻辑主语,一般在其前面用for sb.
He feels it his duty to deliver letters and parcels.
★他认为传递信件和包裹是他的职责。
I have long had it in mind to answer your letter.
★我一直想着给你回信的事。
They found it impossible to get everything ready in time.
★他们发现不可能按时把一切准备好。
She thought it unnecessary to argue with him about it.
★她觉得没有必要和他辩论。
Do you consider it better not to go?
★你觉得不去好些吗?
Don't you think it better to translate it this way ?
★你难道不觉得这样译更好些吗?
All those anxieties make it impossible for me to concentrate on my study.
★种种忧虑使我不能专心于我的研究。
Do you consider it worthwhile for them to make that experiment 你认为他们值得做那个实验吗?**
句型5:动词不定式作宾语补足语
例句:Mr. Smith doesn't want his wife to tell him what to do.
【★】:史密斯先生不愿意他太太来指点他该做什么?
【句型点拨】:动词不定式作宾语补足语时,起补充说明宾语的作用,能用在这种句型中的谓语动词有advise, ask, allow, assist, agree, arrange, beg, cause, challenge, command, compel, condemn, caution, dare, defy, determine, enable, encourage, entitle, expect, forbid, force, impel, implore, incite, induce, instruct, intend, invite, oblige, order, permit, persuade, press, prefer, recommend, request, teach, tempt, urge, warn, want, wish等。
Last night, in a radio address, the president urged us to subscribe to the Red Cross.
★昨晚的广播讲话里总统敦促我们向红十字会捐款。
These computer games will help you to solve complicated mathematical problems.
★玩计算机有助于提高解数学难题的能力。
The school doesn't allow his students, unless they have special cases, to stay out of their dormitories after 11 p.m..
★学校规定,除非有特殊情况,学生晚上11点后须回寝室休息。
I didn't mean you to hear it.
★我没有打算让你听到这件事。
I'll leave him to solve the problem for himself.
★我让他自己去解决这个问题。
Allow me to propose a toast to our friendship between our two peoples.
★请允许我提议为两国人民的友谊干杯。
Leadership is the expression of courage that compels people to do the right thing.
★领导才能表现的是迫使人们正确而为的勇气。
The best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.
★给孩子们建议的最佳方式就是了解他们的愿望,然后建议他们去行动。
Information society requires us to accept new things positively and constantly.
★信息社会要求我们不断积极地接受新事物。
I will get someone to repair the recorder for you.
★我去找个人来帮助你修修录音机。
Be a good listener. Encourage others to talk about themselves.
★要善于倾听。鼓励别人谈论他们自己。
The officer expected his men to do their duty.
★军官期望他的部下尽职。
The rights protection law for the consumers enables any impaired consumer to claim money from the company.
★保护消费者权益法使任何受害的消费者有向公司索赔的权利。
Most of the parents agree to forbid their children to smoke.
★大多数父母都同意禁止自己的孩子抽烟。
句型6:带to be作宾语补足语的动词不定式
例句:I imagine yourself (to be) on a desert land.
【★】:我在想象你在荒岛上的情景。
【句型点拨】:当不定式to be作宾语补足语时,常常省略,这种省略与前面的谓语动词有关。涉及到的谓语动词主要有think, consider, believe, accept, assume, convince, suppose, know, feel, find, feel, understand, declare, take, imagine, expect, define, acknowledge, describe, presume, see, show, appoint等。
Have you considered his pension (to be) inadequate 你是否考虑过他的养老金将会不够用?**
Every one believed him (to be) a mad man.
★大家都认为他是个疯子。
He was appointed (to be) the English Ambassador to China.
★他被任命为英国驻中国大使。
Two days later, we proved these facts to be correct.
★两天后,我们证明了这些事实是正确的。
句型7:动词不定式作定语
例句:Is a solicitor the best person to advise me about buying a house?
【★】:律师是我买房的最好顾问吗?
【句型点拨】:某些动词和形容词后经常接动词不定式,它们的同源名词后也常接不定式,且这些不定式多用作定语,相关的名词有wish, intention, anxiety, eagerness, willingness, plan, attempt, promise, decision, agreement, readiness, ability, determination, need, tendency等;the first, the next, the second, the last, the best等后面也可以跟不定式作定语;reason, means, movement, evidence, efforts, right, chance, strength, measure, way, campaign, opportunity, power, ability, skill等后接的不定式定语来说明名词的内容。
It fired his ambition to write poetry.
★这激起了他写诗的急切愿望。
She expressed her eagerness to go back home.
★她表示出想回家的急切心情。
His determination to learn English is great.
★他学英语的决心很大。
Mike was the first to cross the finish line.
★迈克是第一个越过终点线的人。
He would be the last man to do such things.
★他绝不会做这样的事。
We could hardly have time to watch TV.
★我们几乎没有时间看电视。
Everyone enjoys a right to be educated.
★每个人都有受教育的权利。
Is that the best way to solve the problem?
★ 这是解决这个问题的最好方法吗?
We must have the courage to say that we are ignorant.
★我们必须要有勇气承认自己是无知的。
He has the inclination to overlook the difficulties.
★他有忽视困难的倾向。
You should have confidence in your ability to fulfill the task.
★你应该对自己完成任务的能力有信心。
句型8:动词不定式作结果状语
例句:He isn't so stupid as to do that.
【★】:他不至于蠢到做那种事。
【句型点拨】:这是不定式作结果状语的句型,除了用so... as to do(如此……以至于)外,还可用such as to(……以至于……),only to do(结果却),too... to do(太……不能)。在too... to do结构中,如果形容词表示态度、情绪、心情等意思,后面跟的不定式是肯定的意义,这类形容词包括anxious, ready, willing, reluctant, pleased, glad, eager, unwilling, happy;该句型中如果有only, just, simply, but等放在too前,则后面的不定式表肯定。
My illness is not such as to cause anxiety.
★我的病还没有严重到让人忧虑的地步。
Your stupidity is such as to fill me with despair.
★你愚蠢得令我感到绝望。
The enemy troops rushed there only to be ambushed.
★敌军进犯那里却遭到了伏击。
He returned after the war, only to be told that his wife had left him.
★他战后归来,却听说他的太太离他而去。
He was too tired to stay up any longer.
★他太累了,不能再熬夜了。
The students were too eager to know the results of the exam.
★学生们急于想知道英语考试的结果。
We are only too glad to talk with foreigners.
★我们非常高兴与外国人交谈。
You know simply too well to hold your tongue.
★你深知少说为佳。
I'm sorry. I'm too much in a hurry to talk with you.
★对不起,我有急事要办不能和你谈话。
句型9:动词不定式作目的状语
例句:Abraham Lincoln walked five miles to return a penny he'd overcharged a customer.
【★】:亚伯拉罕·林肯步行了5英里把多收的一分钱还给了顾客。
【句型点拨】:该句型是不定式用作目的状语,除此以外,不定式作目的状语还有两种结构in order to do..., so (...) as to do...。
To improve her English, she watched English movies everyday.
★为了提高英语水平,她每天看英语电影。
Let's hurry in order not to miss the train.
★咱们快点走,免得错过那班火车。
In order to learn French, I went to live in France.
★为了学习法语,我去法国居住。
She checked the name carefully so as not to make mistakes.
★为了不出错,她仔细核对了名单。
We live to serve the people heart and soul.
★我们活着是为了全心全意为人民服务。
To protect his comrades, he heroically laid down his life.
★为了保护同志们,他英勇地牺牲了。
Satellites can be used to carry television cameras far into space to observe the earth.
★卫星可以把电视摄像机带入太空,以便对地球进行观察。
To prove the existence of the mysterious metal, radium, the Curies worked very hard.
★为了证实神奇金属镭的存在,居里夫妇付出了辛勤的劳动。
In order to put a satellite in orbit, a rocket must attain a speed of about five miles per second.
★为了把卫星射入轨道,火箭须达到每秒钟约5英里的速度。
We study English so hard as to have a good command of it.
★我们如此努力地学习英语,以便更好地掌握它。
句型10:动词不定式作原因状语
例句:She wept to see him in such a terrible state.
【★】:看到他这种可怕的样子,她哭了。
【句型点拨】:动词不定式用作原因状语,一般置于句尾,不定式的前面可以是动词、形容词或者过去分词。如果是表示情绪的形容词或过去分词后跟不定式,则该不定式说明原因。常见的表示情绪的形容词有glad, delighted, happy, ashamed, pleased, anxious, lucky, fortunate, eager, right, disappointed, ready, clever, unwise, shocked, sorry, surprised, grieved, frightened, prompt, thoughtless等。
We were grieved to hear the news that he died in the battle.
★听到他在战斗中牺牲的消息,我们感到非常悲痛。
We shall be very happy to cooperate with you in the project.
★在此项目中能与你们合作,我们感到非常高兴。
I'm surprised to learn that he lost the game.
★我对他在比赛中的失败感到意外。
They are eager to take part in the project.
★他们渴望参与这个项目。
I don't feel inclined to accept the invitation.
★我不太想接受邀请。
She feels very happy to be using the sun's rays for her cooker instead of electricity for her stove.
★她使用太阳能炉而不用电炉了,因而感到很高兴。
We jumped with joy to hear of your new success.
★知道你取得新成就,我们高兴得跳了起来。
句型11:动词不定式作独立状语
例句:To tell you the truth, new problems emerge when old ones are solved.
【★】:说实话,老问题解决了,新问题又出现了。
【句型点拨】:该句型中的不定式是独立成分,修饰全句,表示说话人的态度,也可以看成是插入语,类似的还有to be frank with you, to begin with, to be brief, to conclude, to be sure,等。
To begin with, the present problems must be considered all sidedly.
★首先,必须全面地考虑目前的形势。
The movie, to be frank with you, moved me to tears.
★老实对你说,这部电影让我感动得流泪。
To be fair, he is not at all an irresponsible person.
★说句公道话,他绝对不是一个不负责任的人。
Among writers of his age, he was, so to speak, a giant among dwarfs.
★在那时的作家中,他可以说是鹤立鸡群。
To tell you the truth, I don't agree with you at all.
★说实在的,我完全不同意你的意见。
To be frank, without accuracy science does not exist.
★坦率地说,没有精确度就没有科学。
句型12:动词不定式作宾语补足语时符号to的省略
例句:I have heard both teachers and students speak well of him.
【★】:我听到老师和学生都在称赞他。
【句型点拨】:该句型中谓语动词为感官动词/使役动词+名词/代词+不带to的不定式。感官动词有feel, hear, see, notice, watch, listen to, look at, observe, perceive, smell等;使役动词有make, have, let等。感官动词和使役动词用被动语态的时候,不定式不能省略to,后跟to be不定式时也不能省略to。
I felt something craw up my feet.
★我感到有东西在我脚上爬。
He lets me have another try.
★他让我再试一试。
He let it be known that he was about to resign.
★他宣称他即将辞职。
Ms. May made the boys stay in after school.
★放学后梅女士让男孩子留在班上。
On entering his house, we at once perceived him to be a man of taste.
★刚走进他的房间,我们就感到他是位有品味的人。
Everyone must be made to understand no pains no gains.
★必须使每个人懂得不劳不获的道理。
Make the past serve the present and foreign things serve China.
★古为今用,洋为中用。
Suddenly we feel the atmosphere grow tense.
★我们感到气氛突然紧张了起来。
The accused man was observed to enter the bank.
★有人看见被告进入了银行。
They were seen to climb through the window.
★有人看见他们从窗子爬进去。
句型13:动词不定式的被动结构
例句:It is necessary for us to be constantly reminded of our shortcomings.
【★】:经常有人提醒自己注意缺点是必要的。
【句型点拨】:动词不定式和它的逻辑主语如果是动宾关系,该不定式使用被动结构。该句中,不定式与逻辑主语构成的词组是remind us of our shortcoming,是动宾关系,所以使用被动结构。
He prefers to be assigned some heavier work to do.
★他宁愿给他些更重的工作做。
She didn't like herself to be praised like that.
★她不喜欢自己受到那样的赞扬。
The books are not allowed to be taken out of the room.
★这些书不允许携出室外。
It's a great honor to be elected a model teacher.
★被选为模范老师是很大的光荣。
The deepest yearning of human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
★人性中最深处的渴望是得到他人的欣赏。
There are benefits to be found in almost everything that happens to you.
★发生在你身上的每一件事都能发现其中的有利之处。
The properties of a metal are to be studied if we are to use it in engineering.
★如果我们在工程中准备使用金属,那么就应该研究金属的性能。
句型14:动词不定式的完成式
例句:I'm sorry to have kept you waiting for such a long time.
【★】:对不起,让你久等了。
【句型点拨】:动词不定式表示的动作如果发生在谓语动词所表示的动作之前,该不定式需要使用完成式。本例中,“等待”发生在“道歉”之前,所以使用完成式。
It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.
★失败固然痛苦,但更糟的是从未为了成功而去尝试。
He pretended not to have seen me.
★他假装没有看见我。
We didn't know him to have been a teacher.
★我们不知道他当过教师。
You are lucky to have got a ticket.
★你运气好,弄到一张票。
They are said to have finished their task.
★据说他们已经完成了任务。
We are all lucky enough to have seen our respected writer.
★见到尊敬的作家,我们真够幸运的。
The woman teacher was much delighted to have been invited to the national conference.
★被邀请参加全国会议,这位女教师非常高兴。
句型15:动词不定式的进行式
例句:Phil pretended to be listening to his teacher attentively.
【★】:菲尔假装认真倾听老师讲课的样子。
【句型点拨】:动词不定式表示的动作与谓语动词表示的动作同时发生时,该不定式使用进行式。
They expected their son to be doing well during the examination.
★他们期望他们的儿子考试一切顺利。
Things seem to be going on smoothly.
★似乎一切都很顺利。
I don't want him to be constantly speaking ill of others before me.
★我不想他喋喋不休地在我面前说人家的坏话。
The patient was desperate to be getting weak day by day.
★病人一天比一天衰弱,因而感到很绝望。
He is said to be making a new experiment.
★据说他在做一个新实验。
He is supposed to be washing the car.
★他应该在洗车。
句型16:动词不定式的否定
例句:He has determined not to bargain away any of the province's economic powers.
【★】:他决心不以该省经济大权做交易。
【句型点拨】:否定动词不定式是在不定式标志to前加否定副词not。
I am sorry not to have told you about it before.
★很抱歉,我过去没有把这件事告诉你。
In order not to destroy the crane, the load it lifts must be limited.
★为了不损坏起重机,起重负荷必须有限制。
She tiptoed up the stairs, so as not to wake up her sleeping parents.
★她踮着脚走上楼梯,以免吵醒她正在睡觉的父母。
If you have pale skin, you must be careful not to lie in the sun for too long.
★如果你皮肤白,你要小心别在阳光下晒得太久。
They must have worn gloves in order not to leave any fingerprints.
★为了不留下指纹,他们一定戴上了手套。
My mother had the grace not to tell my father that I had crashed his car.
★我母亲心底善良,没有告诉我父亲我毁了他的车。
句型17:介词for引出动词不定式的逻辑主语
例句:For people all over the world to live a happy life he works very hard.
【★】:为了全人类的幸福生活,他努力工作。
【句型点拨】:不定式的逻辑主语往往用for+名词/代词表示,这种不定式在句中可以作主语、宾语、表语、定语、状语等。
Confidence makes it easy for us to achieve our goals.
★自信使我们容易达到目标。
How would it be for you to take charge of this class 你负责这个班怎么样?**
Inaction renders it impossible for you to fulfill your dreams.
★懒散倦怠使你不可能实现梦想。
It is difficult for a young man to speak of his view of life.
★年轻人畅谈自己的人生观是困难的。
It is necessary for you to learn from others.
★你向别人学习是很有必要的。
It's hard for me to distinguish the twin sisters.
★我很难区别这对孪生姐妹。
It's impossible for a woman to divorce her husband in some countries.
★在一些国家妇女要想离婚是不可能的。
It's impossible for anyone to learn English well without great efforts. 任何人不下苦功,是不可能学好英语的。
The bed for her to sleep in is comfortable.
★她睡觉的床很舒适。
The best solution is for the robots to replace human beings to solve all the dangerous things.
★最好的办法是让机器人代替人做危险的工作。
The first thing would be for us to look for a shelter since it was raining so heavily.
★雨下得这么大,要紧的事是我们得找个避雨的地方。
We found it difficult for those children to work out these math problems.
★我认为让孩子们解这些数学题太难了。
句型18:介词of引出动词不定式的逻辑主语
例句:It was generous of Mary to help the poor.
【★】:玛丽帮助穷人很慷慨。
【句型点拨】:该句型结构为“It is/was+形容词+of+名词/代词+不定式”。在该句型中,形容词与of后面的名词或代词有主表关系。用于该句型的形容词多为评价性形容词,常见的有brave, careless, foolish, polite, kind, wrong, selfish, annoying, trying, naughty, generous, right, clever, rude, silly, boring, wise, nice等。注意:这种句型与“It is/was+形容词+for+名词/代词+不定式”的句型不同,后者中的形容词与不定式具有主谓逻辑关系,所使用的形容词有easy, difficult, possible, impossible, important, hard, necessary, convenient等。
It was annoying of Jane to lose my dictionary.
★珍妮把我的字典弄丢了,真让我烦恼。
It was thoughtful of you to come to see me when I was ill.
★承蒙你在我生病期间来看我,你总是很体贴别人。
It's stupid of her not to follow your advice.
★她不听你的劝告真蠢。
It's kind of you to think so much of us.
★难为你这样替我们着想。
It's very nice of you to be so considerate.
★你们想得如此周到是很好的。
It's awfully good of you to come and meet us.
★非常感谢你来接我们。
句型19:动词不定式主动式表示被动意思
例句:Football is very exciting to watch.
【★】:看踢足球很令人激动。
【句型点拨】:该句型是不定式的主动形式表示被动意义。动词不定式与逻辑主语是动宾关系,动词不定式前面的形容词一般表示性质,如easy, difficult, hard, fit, unfit, possible, impossible, important, comfortable, convenient, pleasant等。
He is hard to convince.
★他很难被说服。
John's homework is difficult to do as Henry's.
★约翰的家庭作业与亨利的一样难做。
The air is bad to breathe.
★呼吸这种空气对身体有害。
The fears are impossible to erase.
★恐惧不可能消除。
The problem is easy enough to work out.
★这道题解起来容易。
The question is difficult to answer.
★这个问题难以回答。
The story is easy to read if you adapt it.
★如果你把故事改写一下,就会易于阅读。
The students found the lecture hard to understand.
★学生觉得听不懂讲座。
This sentence is not easy to explain.
★这个句子不难理解。
句型20:wh-词+动词不定式结构
例句:How to develop students' practical capacity and meanwhile in what way lighten their burden are a heavy task in great demand.
【★】:如何培养学生的实际能力,同时用什么方法减轻他们的负担,仍是一个亟待解决的难题。
【句型点拨】:该句型是“疑问代词或疑问副词(why除外)+不定式”的结构,表达将要做的事情。此类不定式在句中作主语时谓语动词要用单数。
The problem is how to find this material.
★问题是如何找到这种材料。
I don't know whether to refuse his gift or accept it.
★我不知道是拒绝他的礼物还是收下他的礼物。
I have an idea of how to settle the matter.
★我知道如何解决这件事。
He told me which way to follow.
★他告诉我该走哪条路。
He didn't know whether to laugh or to cry when he heard these words.
★听了这些话他啼笑皆非。
No one could tell me where to get this book.
★没有人能告诉我哪里能弄到这本书。
I hope you'll advise me what to do.
★我希望你能够给我出主意怎么办好。
Do you know how to express this idea in English?
★你知道用英语如何表达这个意思吗?
They exchanged views on the question of whom to elect.
★他们就选举谁的问题交换了意见。
Where and when to build the factory is not decided yet.
★在哪儿建,何时建厂还没有确定。
句型21:动词不定式符号代替不定式
例句:Robert wanted to ride his bicycle in the street, but his mother told him not to.
【★】:罗伯特想到大街上去骑车,而母亲叫他别去。
【句型点拨】:为了避免重复,英语中常常使用不定式符号代替不定式。本句中,句末不定式标志to后面就省去了ride his bicycle in the street。
Don't stop swimming until you are asked to.
★要你别游了你才能停下来。
Children can't be given more money than they need to.
★该给孩子多少钱就给多少,不能多给。
They had to move to the island though they were not willing to.
★尽管不乐意,他们仍不得不搬到岛上去。
Your daughter is more vivacious than she used to.
★你女儿比以前活泼多了。
Do you have to save money to support your son at university? I am afraid to.
★你要存钱供儿子读大学吗?恐怕是吧。
Not that I don't want to go abroad, but that I am afraid I am not able to.
★并不是我不想出国,只是因为我担心我没法出国。
Father encouraged Tina to study medicine, but she didn't want to.
★父亲鼓励蒂娜学医学,但是蒂娜不想学。
We must never fail to act as the doctor has told us to.
★我们一定要遵医嘱。