词组 | the rest... is/are |
释义 | the rest... is/are 【问】The first two of the five questions on the test paper were very difficult,but the rest waseasy.(全国高考英语试题,1980) 答案要求将the rest was改为the rest were。但是,the rest was(is)的用法是很常见的: The rest of the family joins me in expressing our gratitude. (MD) 【答】 the rest作主语时,其谓语动词有时用复数,有时用单数,这里所遵循的是概念一致原则,而不是语法一致原则。也就是说,当the rest后接一个of+复数名词结构时,谓语动词用复数,当the rest后接一个of+单数名词时,谓语动词用单数。当the rest单独用作主语时,如果在概念上暗含着第一种含义,则谓语动词用复数;如果在概念上暗含着第二种含义,则谓语动词用单数。请分析下列实例: 1. Some agree with Jim,but the rest of us agree with Sam. (FWF) 有些人同意吉姆的观点,其余的人则同意萨姆的观点。 2. Those are mine,Robert; the rest are yours. (Mansfield) 罗伯特,那些是我的,其余的是你的。 3. The rest are to wait for us. (MD) 其余的人要等着我们。 4. The rest of us were allowed to go home. (EED) 我们其余的人获准回家了。 5. I have read a large part of the book;the rest is more difficult. 这本书的大部分我都读过了;其余的部分比较难。 6. The rest needs no telling. 其余的就不需要说了。 由此可以看出,上面的高考英语试题应当用the rest were。如与下列句子进行对比,就更容易理解了: He's only got one shirt,because all the rest (of them) are being washed. (LDCE) 他只剩一件衬衫了,其余的正在洗。 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986页. |
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