【问】 We resolve to get up earlier each morning，eat less，find more time to play with the chil-dren，do a thousand and one jobs about the house，be nice to people we don’t like，drivecarefully，and take the dog for a walk every day. (New Concept English，Book 3，L. 50)
 在几个结构相同的带to的动词不定式连用时，是重复使用to呢，还是仅仅在第一个动词不定式之前使用to，而在其余的动词不定式之前省略to呢?上面句子里的动词不定式eat，find，do，be，drive和take与to get是同等成分(均作resolve的宾语)，为什么省略了动词不定式符号to呢?
 【答】 按照通常的习惯，仅仅在第一个不定式之前加动词不定式符号to，而在其余的不定式之前省略to。例如：
 1. I’d like to lie down and go to sleep.
 我想躺下进入梦乡。
 2. I wished to finish my business and get away.
 我希望干完我的事就离开。
 3. Christina hardly knew whether to laugh or cry.
 克里斯蒂娜简直不知道是应当笑还是应当哭。
 4. I thought it better to take the anthem myself than give it to a junior，who would be sureto make a mull of it.
 我想我自己来唱圣歌，比让一个年少者来唱，要好一些，他肯定会把它弄糟的。
 我记得当我在课堂上讲到这一点时，有一位学生马上问我：“To be or not to be，that isthe question.(是生存还是毁灭?这是问题之所在)这个句子为什么重复使用to呢?
 我引用了Curme的观点：当几个结构相同的动词不定式连用而表示对比或进行强调时，人们常常重复使用to。例如：
 1. It was better to laugh than to cry.
 笑比哭好。
 2. I haven't decided to go home or to stay at school this summer.
 我还没有决定今年夏天是回家还是留在学校里。
 3. I had meant to have visited Paris and to have returned to London before my father ar-rived from America. (Curme)
 我本想在我的父亲从美国到达这里之前访问一下巴黎再返回伦敦。
 4. I limited myself to two modest ambitions： to do physical exercises every morning and toread more of an evening. (New Concept English，Book 3，L. 50)
 我定了两项切实可行的措施：每早进行体育锻炼，每晚多看一些书。
 5. If you expressed doubt or surprise，he would immediately invite you to smell it and thento rub some into your skin. (New Concept English，Book 3，L. 52)
 倘若你流露出怀疑或惊讶的神情，他会立即请你闻一闻，并随即在你皮肤上涂上一点儿。
 6. I stopped to let the car cool off and to study the map. (New Concept English，Book 3，L. 57)
 我停下汽车，让它冷却，并仔细查阅地图。