In July, 1789, the Revolution started in France. The poor of the cities and the peasants in the country, having lived such a hard life for so long, took up their guns and knives and began to kill the rich nobles.
我们英语老师说, life 作“生命”解时是可数名词, 作“生活”解时是不可数名词。上句中的 life 作“生活”解, 为什么用作可数名词呢?
当 life 泛指“生活”时,它确实是一个不可数名词,例如:
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Life at school is both busy and interesting. 学校的生活是繁忙而有趣的。
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In order to know more about the workers' life in England, he worked hard at English. 为了更多地了解英国工人的生活，他努力学习英语。
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Which do you prefer, town life or country life? 你喜欢哪种生活,是城市生活,还是乡村生活?
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Life lies before you. 生活展现在你的面前。
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Life has today become much more complex. 如今生活变得更复杂了。
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Life is probably harder for women ... 生活对于女人也许更加艰难……
但是,当 life 指的是某种具有比较具体内容的“生活”时,则被看作是可数名词。例如 live a good (happy, difficult, hard, busy, colourful, interesting, miserable, commercial, contented) life。请看下面的例句:
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Don't we have a good life? 难道我们不是过着很好的生活吗?
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I know that he has a very hard life. 我知道他的生活很艰难。
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She wants to make people's lives richer with her singing. 她要用她的歌声使人们的生活变得更加丰富多彩。
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In their personal lives people will also use computers more and more. 人们在个人生活中也将越来越多地使用计算机。
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Will we use them to improve our lives? 我们是否将利用计算机来改善我们的生活呢?
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By the end of this century it will touch on everyone's life, even the lives of the people in distant villages. 到本世纪末，计算机将触及每个人的生活，甚至住在偏远村庄里的人们的生活。
请做下面的英语试题：
Everyone leads ____ in the new society.
A. a happy life B. happy living C. happy lives D. happy life