The grammatical words which play so large a part in English grammar are for the most part sharply and obviously different from the lexical words. A rough* z6 Y3 n' _% G& }: v3 b+ L
and ready difference which may seem the most obvious is that grammatical __1__ words have “less meaning”, but in fact some grammarians have called them __2__ “empty” words as opposed in the “full” words of vocabulary. But this is a rather __3__ misled way of expressing the distinction. Although a word like the is not the name __4__ of something as man is, it is very far away from being meaningless; there is a __5__ sharp difference in meaning between “man is vile” and “the man is vile”, yet the is the single vehicle of this difference in meaning. Moreover, grammatical words __6__ differ considerably among themselves as the amount of meaning they have even in __7__ the lexical sense. Another name for the grammatical words has been “little words.”4 M2 R" I7 s+ k' T
But size is by no mean a good criterion for distinguishing the grammatical words.” __8__ of English, when we consider that we have lexical words as go, man, say, car. __9__ Apart from this, however, there is a good deal of truth in what some people say:7 ?0 p# m ~' ?5 y
we certainly do create a great number of obscurity when we omit them. This is __10__ illustrated not only in the poetry of Robert Browning but in the prose of telegrams and newspaper headlines.7 ~8 n- `8 Q& K
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1 删掉the 此处的most并不表示obvious的最高级,而是用作副词修饰obvious,表示程度很高,因此前面不能加the。( |) w% _5 x3 g
2 将but改为and 根据文章的意思,这里要用并列关系的and。
6 o4 Y- x, g' z* t* t x9 g# c. |4 ` 3 将in改为to。 as apposed to 是固定搭配,意思是“与……相比”。7 F: L8 f- q0 U& `( @* ~
4 将misled改为misleading
0 b6 j* s3 V" m U) f4 h2 p 5删掉away。 此处考查固定用法。 far from being...意思为“远非”“远远不怎么样”,符合这里的意思。而far away from 表示离某处很远。
! [ K) ~8 O ?$ M2 E- v 6 将single改为only或者sole。这里要表达“唯一的”。
6 i* X! L+ y: |$ {2 B$ _9 { 7 在as后面加to或者将as 改为in。联系上下文,此处的意思是“grammatical words 本身在某某方面也有相当的差异,”as to 有“关于”或者“在某某方面的意思”;将as改为in,用differ from something in…也可表达这个意思。( j9 Q. B1 H6 N2 u4 w
8 将mean改为means 9 将as改为like,或者在as前面加such6 d2 s/ T o% R- ^
10 将number改为deal或者amount。obscurity是不可数名词,不能用a number of 来修饰。 |