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' t' J: ?) b) O4 `
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.”
1 {* j- u: o" a) ` 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:
6 t4 L$ L/ W; {, F% D& d* z' N! K 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.
' o6 J3 z2 C ] u1 k/ P 答案:
/ t3 y2 k' N* Z% a0 n5 D) \& z 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。
: J/ ?2 y. u& ~1 I( l 2 将but改为and 根据文章的意思,这里要用并列关系的and。4 r+ s* X6 }2 J1 Z* F5 b- o$ n8 X
3 将in改为to。 as apposed to 是固定搭配,意思是“与……相比”。
2 F5 N1 m# H* \ 4 将misled改为misleading
- M7 O+ y$ V( n1 H, G 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。% I A8 y2 G- g5 d
6 将single改为only或者sole。这里要表达“唯一的”。, Y! M. _$ x# V
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。& z/ j. z$ [7 l+ x6 D) ~+ E7 E
8 将mean改为means 9 将as改为like,或者在as前面加such
& M% f* I6 e) S3 R) d 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。 |