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treat as/treat like

核心问题

They treated him ____ a king when he won all the money.

A. as B. as being C. like D. like he was(Nelson, 300 D)

正确答案为 A。但是我在 CGEL(§ 16.47)中却遇到过这样的例句:

Her parents treated her {as if she were a baby.as/like a small child.\left\{ \begin{array}{l} \text{as if she were a baby.} \\ \text{as/like a small child.} \end{array} \right.

这不是意味着C(like)也是正确答案吗?

词典解答

R.Quirk等人在CGEL中所提出的treatAlikeB这个句型,在目前只能看作是非正式用法,而不应看作是正式用法。因此,目前除CGEL外,还没有一部辞书将treatAlikeB作为正式用法而收录。

  1. Don't treat me as a child. (ALD) 别把我当作小孩子。

  2. They treated him as a thief. (Hill) 他们把他看成小偷。

  3. My employer treated my request as a joke. (LDCE) 我的老板把我的要求当成玩笑。

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