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weapon/weaponry

核心问题 1

The crossbow is a medieval weaponry built in such a way as to give it greater strength than A B C D

an ordinary bow. (TOEFL)

答案规定 A(weaponry) 为错误。难道 weaponry 不是一个单数名词吗?为什么不能用不定冠词?

词典解答 1

英语里有一些名词是表示一类事物的总称的,例如:personnel(人员),poetry(诗),machinerysceneryjewelry。这些名词不能加-s 表示复数,也不能与不定冠词连用。weaponry 也属于这类名词。这类名词都有其相对应的表个体的名词:weaponpersonpoemmachinescenejewel

请做下面的试题:

We have ____.

A. a piece of jewelry B. a bar of jewelry C. a little bit of jewelry D. a jewelry wear 1^{1}

核心问题 2

This kind of glasses manufactured by experienced craftsmen ____ comfortably.

A. is worn B. wears C. wearing D. are worn(全国四级,00.1-47)

《大学英语四六级考试全真试题集详解》(航空工业出版社, p. 159) 对上题作了如下的解释:

wear 在此处作‘穿、戴’的意思,应该用一般现在时的主动语态,表示一般的事实、特征。如:The sun rises in the east. Children wear new clothes on New Year's Day.” 请问上题中的 wearChildren wear new clothes on New Year's Day. 中的 wear 用法相同吗?

词典解答 2

该书作者把 wear 的两种不同的用法混为一谈了。该书例句中 wear 是个及物动词,作“穿”“戴”“留着”解:

I wear glasses for reading. 我看书要戴眼镜。

而试题中的 wear 则是一个形式主动、意义被动的动词。其特征是: 主语是表物的词语, 只能带状语, 决不会带宾语。可用作形式主动、意义被动的动词还有: read, write, open, shut, lock, blow, wash, sell, cut, peel, photograph, cook 等, 见 notional passives

[试题句意]这种由经验丰富的工匠制造的眼镜戴起来很舒服。

核心问题 3

My shoes are worn out.

上句中的 are worn out 是被动语态吗?

词典解答 3

不能见到 be + 过去分词就认为是被动语态。它除了用作被动语态之外,还可用作连系动词 + 表语结构。区分方法:被动语态表示动作(动态过程),而连系动词 + 表语表示状态(静止状态,不涉及起点和终点)。上面的句子表示的是状态,应分析为连系动词 + 表语结构。再如:

This machine is worn out and will have to be replaced. 这台机器磨损了, 得换新的了。请做下面的英语试题:

  1. Wore out by hunger and tiredness, the fisherman did not get to the coast until midnight. (上海高考,90)

  2. The stockings are so ____ that they can't be mended any more. A. taken off B. worn out C. pulled on D. thrown away

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