1.It作先行主语和先行宾语的一些句型
She had said what it was necessary to say。
2.强调句型
It is not who rules us that is important, but how he rules us。
3.“All+抽象名词”或“抽象名词+itself”(very+形容词
He was all gentleness to her。
4.利用词汇重复表示强调
A crime is a crime。
5.“something(much)of”和“nothing(little)of”“something of”相当于“to some extent”,表示程度。在疑问句或条件从句中,则为“anything of ”,可译为“有点”,“略微等。”“译为毫无”,“全无”。“much of”译为“大有”,“not much of”可译为“算不上”,“称不上”,“little of”可译为“几乎无”。 something like译为“有点像,略似。”
They say that he had no university education, but he seems to be something of a scholar。
6.同格名词修饰是指of前后的两个名词都指同一个人或物,“of”以及它前面的名词构一个形容词短语,以修饰“of”后面的那个名词。如“her old sharper of a father”,可译为:“她那骗子般的父亲”。
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,几乎如;实际上,其实,实在。
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”可译为“与其……,不如……,更好”,“以这样做……为宜”,“如同……,也可以……”等等。“might as well …as”表示不可能的事,可译为“犹如……”,“可与……一样荒唐”,“与其那样不如这样的好”等等。
One may as well not know a thing at all as know it imperfectly。
11.“to make…of”的译法(使……成为……,把……当作)I will make a scientist of my son。
12.oo…+不定式“,not(never)too…+不定式”,“too…not+不定式She is too angry to speak。
13.only(not, all, but, never) too …to do so ”和“too ready (apt) + to do” 结构中,不定式也没有否定意义,凡是“not”,“all”“but等字后+”too…to,“不定式都失去了否定意义,在”too ready(apt) +to do“结构中,不定式也没有否定意义。
You know but too yell to hold your tongue。
14.”no more …than…“句型A home without love is no more a home than a body without a soul is a man。
15.”not so much…as“和”not so much as …“结构,”not so much…as“=”not so much as …“,其中as有进可换用but rather,可译为:”与其说是……毋须说是……“。而”not so much as“=”without(not)even,“可译为”甚至……还没有“。
The oceans do not so much divide the world as unite it 。
16.”Nothing is more…than“和”Nothing is so …as“结构,”Nothing is more…than“和”Nothing is so …as“都具有最高级比较的意思,”Nothing I“可换用”no“,”nobody“,”nowhere“,”little“,”few“,”hardly“,”scarcely“等等,可译为”没有…… 比……更为“,”像……再没有了“,”最……“等。