| 词组 | very |
| 释义 | very You use very to emphasize an adjective or adverb. ...a very small child. That's very nice of you. Think very carefully. ◊ used with '-ed' words You can use very to emphasize adjectives ending in '-ed', especially when they refer to a state of mind or emotional condition. For example, you can say 'I was very bored' or 'She was very frightened'. He seemed very interested in everything. Joe must have been very worried about her. However, you do not use very to emphasize '-ed' words when they are part of a passive construction. You do not say, for example, 'He was very liked'. You say 'He was well liked'. Similarly, you do not say 'She was very admired'. You say 'She was much admired', 'She was very much admired', or 'She was greatly admired'. Argentina were well beaten by Italy in the first round. I was much influenced by many writers. He is very much resented by the unions. She was greatly changed in appearance. ◊ WARNING You do not say that someone is 'very awake'. You say that they are wide awake or fully awake. He was wide awake by the time we reached my flat. He was not fully awake. You do not say that someone is 'very asleep'. You say that they are sound asleep, fast asleep, or deeply asleep. Chris is still sound asleep in the other bed. Charlotte had been fast asleep when he left her. Miss Haynes was very deeply asleep. You do not say that two things are 'very apart'. You say that they are far apart. His two hands were far apart. You also do not use very with adjectives which already describe an extreme quality. You do not say, for example, that something is 'very enormous'. Here is a list of adjectives of this kind: absurd, awful, brilliant, delighted, enormous, essential, excellent, furious, huge, massive, perfect, splendid, terrible, wonderful ◊ comparatives and superlatives You do not use very with comparatives. You do not say, for example, 'Tom was very quicker than I was'. You say 'Tom was much quicker than I was' or 'Tom was far quicker than I was'. It was much colder than before. It is a far better picture than the other one. You can use very in front of 'best', 'worst', or any superlative which ends in '-est'. It's one of Shaw's very best plays. ...the very worst suspicions. ...the very latest photographs. However, you do not use very with superlatives that begin with 'the most'. Instead you use much, by far, or far and away. Music may have been much the most respectable of his tastes. He insists that, of all his novels, 'The Hammer of God' was by far the most difficult to write. This is far and away the most important point. ◊ used with 'first', 'next', and 'last' You can use very in front of 'first', 'next', or 'last' to emphasize that something is the first, next, or last thing of its kind. ...the very first light of day. The very next day we held a jumble sale in the village hall. Those were his very last words. ◊ WARNING You do not use very to say that something happens because someone or something has a quality to an unusually large extent. You do not say, for example, 'He looked very funny that we couldn't help laughing'. You say 'He looked so funny that we couldn't help laughing'. He found the girl so attractive that he fell in love. He had shouted so hard that he had no voice left. See entry at ↑ ◊ prepositions You do not use very in front of prepositions such as 'ahead of' or 'behind'. Instead you use well or far. Applications are well ahead of last year's. Clark was not far behind him in agility. ◊ prepositional phrases You also do not use very in front of prepositional phrases. You do not say, for example, 'He was very in love with Kate'. Instead, you use very much or greatly. The findings were very much in line with previous medical thinking. I was greatly in awe of Jane at first. |
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