中学英语书面表达系列讲座与训练(1)
可能想不起来使用的it。
先试着翻译下列句子,
1.火车已经到达,火车是半小时以前到达的。
2.图书馆里相当安静。
3.对我们来说,学好英语很重要。
4.从教室到操场要走3分钟。
5.天正下着大雨。
都翻译对了吗,对一对参考答案吧!
1.The train has arrived; it arrived half an hour ago.
2) It was very quiet in the library.
3) It is very important for us to learn English well.
4) It is a three minutes’walk from our classroom to the playground.
5) It was raining hard.
说明:句1)中的it是用来指代前面提到过的事物,这里指的是火车。汉语里在这种情况下,常常重复前面的名词,如原句中重复了“火车”,而英语中这种情况下多用代词。所以有种说法是:“汉语多重复前面的名词,英语多用代词”。而有的同学因为受汉语的影响,在书面表达时,可能会写出如下的句式:The train has arrived, the train arrived half an hour ago.这就是我们常说的“Chiglish”(中国式英语)吧。
句2)中的it是英语里的习惯用法:it 可用来指“时间、距离 、天气、季节和婴儿”。这里指的是(图书馆的)环境。句4)指“距离”,句5)指“天气”。句3)中的it 叫着“形式主语”,用来代替真实主语“学好英语 to learn English well”。有同学要问了,有真实主语,还要“形式主语”干啥,这就是英语句式习惯用法。遵循着用就是了。若没有for us ,句3也可以写着To learn English is very important(学好英语很重要)。也可写着it is very important to learn English well.
小试牛刀 使用it ,将下列段落用英语表达
今天天气晴朗,我和妹妹打算去我家附近的电影院看场电影。电影的名字叫《哈利波特》,从我家到电影院乘公交车有5分钟的路。电影非常有趣,不过是英语的。能听懂英语真的很重要!
【参考答案1】
It is fine today. My younger sister and I are going to see a film near my home. It is named Harry Porter. It is a five-minute(a five minutes’)ride from my home to the cinema. The film is very fun, but it was spoken in English. Therefore, it is really very important (for us ) to understand English.
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