Transfer of negation
In some negative ntences, “not” is to negate the predicates in form, but actually it is ud to negate other elements of tho negative ntences. Therefore, while translating, we should transfer the negation.
All that glisters is not gold.
Every man cannot be a scientist.
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not…as\like
He does not limit his principal advirs to a special field of concentration like Mr.Truman.
The number of people who consult psychiatrists today is not, as is sometimes felt, a symptom of increasing mental illness health.
The maker of each is careful to obrve the laws of his own perspective, and however great a strain they may put upon us they will never confu us, as lesr writers so frequently do, by introducing two different kinds of reality into the same book.
not …becau\ not…simply becau
not…only becau\ not …merely becau
Transfer of negation
E.g. A high executive does not have a large vocabulary merely becau of the opportunities of his position.
But two systems are not necessarily identical, or even very similar becau they have some properties in common.
Transfer of negation
not…to do( infinitive expressing purpo)
E.g. They do not conduct the dangerous experiment to rve their private interest.
We did not build institutes of technology to educate boys for export.
Transfer of negation
not…Adverbial( with preposition)
E.g. Scientific discoveries and inventions do not always influence the language in proportion to their importance. It is doubtful whether the radio and the movie are more important than the telegraph and telephone, but they have brought many new words into general u.
Transfer of negation
He has never mixed with them or spoken to them on equal terms, but has demanded and generally received a respect due to his position and superior intelligence.
Transfer of negation
not…nearly
E.g. The food supply will not increa nearly enough to match this, which means that we are heading into a crisis in the matter of producing and marketing food.
Spiders are not incts, as many people think, nor even nearly related to them.
Transfer of negation
Exerci P69
Our very anxiety is born of our knowledge of what is now possible for each and for all. The number of people who consult psychiatrists today is not, as is sometimes felt, a symptom of increasing mental ill health, but rather the precursor of a world in which the hope of genuine mental health will be open to everyone, a world in which no individual feels that he need be hopelessly broken-hearted, a failure, a menace to others or a traitor to himlf. But if our anxieties are actually signs of hope, why is there such a voice of discontent abroad in the land? I think this comes perhaps be
cau our anxiety exists without an accompanying recognition of the tragedy which will always be inherent in human life, however well we build our world. We may banish hunger, violence and cret police, we cannot--- as we have tried to do --- banish death itlf. Americans who stem from generations which left their old people behind and never clod their parents' eyelids in death, and who have experienced the additional distance from death provided by two world wars fought far from our shores are today pushing away from them both a recognition of death and a recognition of the tremendous significance---for the future ---of the way we live our lives. Acceptance of the inevitability of death, which, when faced, can dignity to life, and acceptance of our inescapable role in the modern world, might transmute our anxiety about making the right choices, taking the right precautions, and the right risks into the sterner stuff of responsibility.
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Translation on expressions like comparative structures
• no more…than
• no more than
• no less …than
• no less than
• more A than B
• Less A than B
• no better than 一样不好
• little better than
• e.g. He teaches little better than me.
• Rearch into the validity of lection methods has consistently demonstrated that the unstructured interview, where the interviewer asks any questions he or she likes, is a poor predictor of future job performance and fares little better than more controversial methods like graphology and astrology.
• 阳江鸳鸯湖Graphology is a good predictor of future job performance. (T\F\NG)地方的英文
structures
• The ache in the pit of her stomach is no wor than the one in her heart.硬盘分区合并
• bottomless pit
曲可伸• 钱的作用Pitfall
The beaten enemy had no other choice than to surrender.
The man over there is none other than our principal.
• The method of scientific investigation is nothing but the expression of the necessary mode of working of the mind.真没想到
• 科学研究的方法不外是人类思维活动的必要表达方式
• Alone in the derted hou, he was so busy with his rearch work that he felt anythin
g but lonely.
• She all but fainted when she heard the news.
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• But for the rain we should have a pleasant journey.
• He would have helped us but that he was short of money at that time.
Pronoun
It
⏹ 1)I had always wondered how the ewes knew their own lambs; now I learned that it was partly by voice, but chiefly by smell, looks not entering into it. This is why, when a lamb runs up to feed, the mother always turns her head round and touches it. I had imagined it to be merely a gesture of affection, but it ems it is to smell the lamb and make sure that it is her own.
⏹ 2)(Gary Sloane's body was found next morning on the lower shelf of a pillar of Queensboro Bridge. ) In the darkness and in his excitement he had thought that it was the water flowing black beneath him.
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