| 词组 | matter |
| 释义 | 1．复数形式 matters 往往用作“情形”或“事态”解，并不指“多件事”。例如：He asked me how matters stood（他问我情形怎样），That won't mend matters（那是无补于事的）和 That will simplify matters（那将使事态简易了）不可改作 He asked me how the matter stood, That won't mend the matter 和 That will simplify the matter。 2．It is a matter of congratulation（或 complaint，regret，indignation 等）that...里的 a 有时省去，of 改作 for 也可以。似乎 a matter of 最普通，matter of 最不普通，matter for 比a matter for 普通。 3．the matter 作“困难”，“麻烦”，“失常的事”等解。例如：what is the matter? 和The matter with us is that we haven't enough time. 但the matter 习惯上竟被用作形容词，作“失常的”解。例如：There is something the matter with him.（他有些失常。）和 There is nothing the matter with the machine.（这机器没有毛病。）注意 the matter 后面用 with。 the matter 既然有形容词性质，所以 What is the matter?里的 what 通常被看作主语，而且习惯说 He asked me what was the matter，不说 He asked me what the matter was。He asked me what the matter was 的意思通常是“他问我那物质是什么”或“他问我那事件是什么”。 4．reading matter，printed matter，postal matter 等表达方式里的 matter 是物质名词，前面不可加 a，也没有复数。 5．说“做事”的“事”不可用 matter，如不可说 I have several matters to do today，该把 matters 改作 things。 6．no matter whether...和 no matter if...里的 whether 和 if 不可省去。 7．in the matter of（关于）主要是公文英语。 8．matter 用作动词作“关系重大”或“有出入”解，主要用在否定句和疑问句里。例如： It does not matter（或 matters not）whether you will go or not. The change mattered little to him. Nothing seems to matter to him. Does that really matter? 但用在他处也有。例如： The essays deal with persons and things that really matter. 9．It does not matter whether you will go or not 里的 matter 是不及物动词，下面两句里的斜体词是状语宾格： That he may be wrong matters nothing. What can it matter to you? |
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