中英之鉴 中式英语之鉴383

[误] Every weekend, Mary would accompany her old grandfather to go to the cinema.

[正] Every weekend, Mary would accompany her old grandfather to the cinema.

注：accompany 常被翻译成“陪同”，所以人们在翻译“陪某人看电影”时，会很自然地用 accompany sb. to go to the cinema。其实，查英英词典你就会发现，accompany 的意思不是 together with，而是 go togethr with。所以上述情况中其后的 to go 明显是多余的。