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■ (go a) long (way)go a long way 可以有正面与负面的意义，取决于它前面说的是“能够”还是“必须”。 如果是“能够”（前面有助动词 can, may 或表示将来时的 will），go a long way 意思是“能够用很长一段时间”，“能够起相当大的作用”。 - A little will go a long way if it's used sparingly. (Charles Dickens, The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby)省着点用，一点点也能用很久。
- Ah, if I could give it a name it might go a long way toward solving the case. (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes)啊，我如果能给它取个名称，那么离破案也就不远了。
- Your example would go a long way. (Anna Sewell, Black Beauty)你的范例将会起很大作用。
- A compliment can go a long way in easing a woman's anxiety over her looks.一个妇女，如果生怕自己容貌不佳，恭维她一句，就可以对缓解这种忧虑起很大作用。
- You'll go a long way with ideas like that.你有这样的主意，一定可以大有作为。
但前面也可以没有任何助动词，也是表示“（已经）起着相当大的作用”（但通常不用进行时 is going a long way）。 - Soap and water go a long way in preventing avian influenza.肥皂和水对预防禽流感用处很大。
- ... Hollywood's portryal of the US, in a thousand films like this one, goes a long way toward creating that anti-American sentiment in the first place. (Mona Charen, The Daily Gazette, Schenectady, New York, Nov. 20, 2008, A9)…好莱坞在千百部类似这样的影片中对美国形象的刻画，本来就对于制造那种反美情绪起着很大的作用。
如果是“必须”，意思就是“要走很长的路”，转义为“要进行许多的工作”，“要克服许多麻烦”。 - He had to go a long way before he came to the river...(Andrew Lang, The Yellow Fairy Book)他走了很长的路，才走到河边…
- The driver took us the wrong way, and we had to go a long way to the hotel.司机拉着我们走错了路，我们好容易才到了旅馆。
- The rules and regulations associated with receiving the fund are complicated and students have to go a long way to prove their financial position.领取款项的规章条例很复杂，学生们要办许多手续，才能证明自己的经济状况。
- We would have had to go a long way to find a nicer place to live, where the mountains meet the sea.我们要是想另找一处更适宜居住的依山靠海的地方，那就会很费周章。
至于 to have a long way to go，由于它的意思是“必须”，所以意义当然是属于负面的。 - Hillary Clinton has a long way to go to outrun her husband's shadow. (The Sydney Morning Herald, May 25, 2006)（总统候选人）希拉里·克林顿要走出她丈夫的阴影可不容易。
但是如果不用 go 而用 come，则意思是对已经发生的事情的一种回顾，就不可能表示“必须”，因而意义就不是负面而是正面的。 - This kind of surgery has come a long way.这种外科手术已经起过很大的作用。
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