man/a man
【问】 许多语法书上都强调指出，man用于指“人类”时不带冠词，a man则指具体的人(见《现代英语惯用法词典》，P. 626)。但不知下列句子里的a man是否指人类?
“What a piece of work is a man!
How noble in reason! How infinite in faculty! ”(Hamlet)
【答】 man作“人类”解时，一般不带冠词。但是，用a man来表示“人类”，也绝不是绝无仅有。例如，我们在CGEL中就收集到这样一个例句：
人类是社会动物。
有一个译本是这样翻译上面莎士比亚的句子的：
人类是件多么了不起的杰作!理性多么高尚!能力多么无穷!
赵振才 编著.英语常见问题解答大词典.哈尔滨：黑龙江人民出版社.1998.第682页.
- scarcely ever
- scarcely… when/before
- school
- science/sciences
- scientific efforts
- search/ search for/search sb. (sth.) for
- seat
- secret
- secretary
- see
- see
- see
- seeing (that)
- seem
- seem not to/don’t seem to
- see more (less) of
- see more of
- seem to have done
- see sb. do/doing
- see sb. do/doing
- see through
- see through it/see it through
- see(to it) that
- see(to it) that
- see TV/a film