71 动名词用作主语 Track 071
(1)单个的动名词放在句首作主语时,谓语动词用单数形式
例句
a. Seeing is believing.
b. Reading is like permitting a man to talk a long time, and refusing you the right to answer.
c. Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
憎恨别人,就好像为了赶走一只老鼠而把自己的房子烧掉。
d. Having a successful marriage takes effort and patience, and communication is the key.
获得成功的婚姻需要努力和耐心,而交流就是关键。
e. Going to the school dance is a lot of fun. But sometimes, deciding who to go with isn’t easy.
(2)It is no good doing sth.句型
这里,it只是形式主语,真正的主语是后面的doing sth.。其中,no good可替换为:any/some good,any/some/no use,a waste of time等。
例句
a. Is it any good trying to explain?
b. It’s no use crying over spilt milk.
c. It’s not much use my buying salmon if you don’t like fish.
d. It’s simply a waste of time and money seeing that movie.
(3)There be句型中动名词的使用
1)There is no point (in) doing sth. 干某事没有必要,没有意义
a. There is no point in my buying salmon if you don’t like fish.
b. There is no point in my going out to date someone. I might really like it if I met him at the right time, but, right now, he has no chance of being anything to me but a transitional man.
现在让我出去和别人约会没有意义。如果我在对的时间遇到那个人,我可能会很欣喜。可是在现在这个时候,我跟他也不会有结果的,除非是为了解解闷而已。
2)There is no use/good (in) doing sth. 干某事没有用
There is no use arguing with him.
和他争吵没有意义。
3)There is no doing sth. 意思是“不能……;不可……”
a. There is no denying that… 毋庸置疑……
b. There is no saying that… 说不准……
c. There is no telling what will happen tomorrow.
d. There’s no knowing when she’ll come back.