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breakfast/the breakfast     

【问】 We usually have bread and eggs for____(the breakfast,breakfast),我在学习中发现breakfast之前有时带冠词有时不带冠词(It happened at breakfast.)。这是怎么回事呢?
 【答】 一般而论,当breakfast泛指早餐时,它的前面不带冠词。你上面提到的句子便属于这种情况。再如:
 1. I never eat breakfast. (Chambers)
 我从不吃早饭。
 2. The boy had enough money to buy breakfast.
 男孩有足够的钱买早饭。
 但是,当breakfast指某顿具体的早餐时,则常常带冠词:
 1. Have a good breakfast. (ALD)
 早餐吃饱(或好)一点。
 2. He had a quick breakfast and went to work.
 他很快吃完了早餐去工作了。
 3. Then she took up the task of getting the breakfast. (Dreiser)
 然后她开始承担弄早餐的任务。
 然而,实际使用情况却会出现一些比较错综复杂的情况。例如,当提到某一次具体的早餐、午餐或正餐时,有时候也省略冠词:
 1. That day,breakfast was served on the terrace.
 那天,早饭是在阳台上吃的。
 2. Dinner's ready!
 饭准备好了!
 3. I'm busy cooking(the) dinner.
 我正忙着做饭。
 此外,当breakfast之前有after,before,during,at,for等介词时,通常也省略冠词,例如:
 After breakfast. I sent the children to school and then I went to market.(New ConceptEnglish,Book 2,L.54)
 早饭后,我送孩子去上学,然后去市场。请做下面的试题:
 I like bacon and eggs____.
 A. for breakfast B. for the breakfast
 C. with breakfast D. with the breakfast(Nelson,200B)
 这里所提到的规则也适用于lunch,supper,dinner。


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204-205页.
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