cloth名詞,布料的總稱,是不可數名詞。例如: We used a piece of cloth to cover the table. (我們用一塊布覆蓋桌子。)
cloth名詞,抹布,是可數名詞,所以cloths是抹布的複數🙂。例如: I need a wet cloth to clean the table. (我需要一塊濕抹布擦桌子。)
clothes名詞,衣服,跟jeans, pants, shorts一樣,都是以複數呈現。例如: Most people wear casual clothes, such as jeans or sportswear. (多數人穿休閒服,例如牛仔褲或運動服。)
clothing名詞,衣服或服裝,多數情況下意思跟clothes類似。例如: Wear comfortable clothing to your PE class. (穿舒適衣服來上體育課。) 但是有時候會加上單位an article of,例如: You can only take 3 articles of clothing into the changing room. (你一次只能帶三件衣服到試衣間。)
clothe動詞,提供…衣服穿,例如: To feed and clothe a big family of 6 children cost a lot of money. (提供6個孩子的大家庭衣服食物要花很多錢。)
這句型可以表達任何的「愈…愈好!」,例如The taller, the better! 愈高愈好! 但了解表達的完整結構,這個表達就更靈活了:
結構:<The 比較級 S. + V…, the 比較級 S. + V….>
試著把主詞及動詞加進來,然後將比較級做更靈活運用。如何靈活運用呢?請看下面幾個例句就能明白。
容易運用: The more…the more… 這裡的more代表任何想表達的形容詞或副詞比較級。 The more you practice it, the better you do it. (你愈常練習,就做得愈好。) The earlier you get up, the healthier you become. (你愈早起床,就愈健康。)
⭐靈活運用:less或fewer與more交互運用。 The more careful you are, the fewer mistakes you make. (你愈細心,就愈少失誤。) The fewer books we read, the fewer things we know. (我們愈少讀書,就知道愈少。) The less I see of him, the more pleased I’ll feel! (我愈少跟他接觸,我愈感開心)
延伸運用:less或more也可以修飾副詞。 The less often you practice, the more likely you fail. (你愈少練習,就愈可能失敗。) The more carefully you drive, the possibly you get there on time. (你愈小心開車,你就愈可能準時到達。)
A “hacktivist"
group recently took down many Icelandic government websites, in protest at the
country’s practice of whaling.
In fact, Iceland is not the only country that still
practices whaling: Japan and Norway also do so. This often baffles people from elsewhere. We wonder why are the countries
still whaling if most counties are
opposed to it.
Iceland’s whalers are legally allowed to hunt 154 fin
whales and 229 minke whales. Icelanders usually offer two justifications. First, there are too many whales in the ocean and
they eat all the fish. Second, Icelanders do not eat whale meat: it is the
tourists that do that.
That first claim is arguable. The second is largely true. According to an official report, 35-40% of visitors to Iceland eat whale meat. And minke whales are found in all of the world’s oceans. There are over 100,000 minke whales in the wild. And although Fin whales are an endangered species based on the remaining number of them around the world, the fin whale population in North Atlantic is considered healthy. For that reason, hunting fin whales around Iceland is not a conservation threat. So, to Icelandic whalers, when they talk about whaling, they talk about whaling a particular population, not a species.
Whaling is a long tradition in Iceland and
Icelanders think that they can use marine resources, as long as they do it in a
sustainable and responsible way. The
Japanese and Norwegian governments take a similar attitude towards whaling.
save: 意義同except; other
than
Everyone needs to know save Mary.除了Mary每個人都該知道。
注意事項
有些介係詞有其他的身分,這將使其用法與本文呈現方式不同,例如like及cross都是動詞,但也是介係詞,只要熟悉句子的結構,自然能從句子中該字所在的位置做判斷,造句時注意結構。注意下列兩句話的變化: Tom ran across the street. (Tom跑步越過街道。) Tom crossed the street. (Tom越過街道。)
有些介係詞跟動詞結合運用,例如giveup、crossover…但是卻沒有名詞接在後方,例如I gave up! 這樣的介係詞是介於介係詞與副詞之間的運用,在文法結構中比較像是副詞的用法,但我們也可以說I gave up my plan.也就是純粹介係詞的用法。
少數介係詞是從動詞變成分詞候變化而來,例如: There will be a dance partyfollowingthedinner. 此處的following意義等同於soonafter,在字典中也被定義為介係詞,但也可以用不同的方式解讀: There will be a dance party (following the dinner). 可以看成下方句子中的形容詞子句簡化成形容詞片語。 There will be a dance party (that follows the dinner).
as是最令人困擾的, as可以是意義如because的連接副詞: It’s not as good as it used to be. as也可以是意義如while一樣的連接副詞: As I was coming to school I saw Tom. as也可以是意義為in the same way「如同…一樣」的連接副詞: He entered Harvard just as his father had done years before. as也可以是意義為although的連接副詞: Angry as he was, he tried to keep calm. as當然也是介係詞: I see my old brother as a good friend. Tom works as a chef at the restaurant.
This sentence made me stop from my busy routine. I never thought about
life from this perspective.
People do think of themselves as a tiny drop in the vast human ocean. After all, there are so many people around
us and more successful than us. Now what does it mean to be the entire
ocean in one drop?
How can we carry the entire world within
us?
Think of our life, the trips we make,
the tears we cry, the laughter we share, the people we meet, the love we give
and take. Don’t they mean anything?
We ARE
a drop in the ocean. However, when we think of
ourselves as nothing better than a drop in the ocean, we are telling ourselves
that our actions or words are trivial.
When we think the other way around, as
the entire ocean in a drop, we feel our value as an individual, no matter whether we
are successful or not at the moment.