英语的数词除基数词外,还有dozen, score, hundred, thousand, million, billion, trillion七个。它们除了表达基本的数目和顺序外,还有一些特殊用法,涉及到用单数还是用复数,与不与介词连用,与不与定冠词the连用等,本文对它们的用法作七点分析总结。
万册图书正在被扫描成数字格式。
5.有时在上下文意思很明显的情况下,这些特殊数词可直接代替它们所修饰的名词,这时它们都要用复数。如:
Of the apples we bought yesterday, more than three dozens were rotten.在我们昨天买的苹果里,有三十多个都烂掉了。(three dozens=three dozens of the apples)
The US embassy slammed the ‘horrific’ Nigerian massacre where hundreds were killed. 美国大使馆强烈谴责造成数百人死亡的尼日尼亚大屠杀。(hundreds=hundreds of people)
The government has decided to invest eight hundred millions in the project.(eight hundred millions=eight hundred million yuan or dollars)政府已决定在该项目上投资8个亿。
6. 受some这个单词意义的影响,它们的复数形式和单数形式意义有所不同。如:
There are eighty thousand books in our school library. And I have read some hundred of them. 我校图书馆有8万册藏书,我已读了大约一百本。(some=about)
There are eighty thousand books in our school library. And I have read some hundreds of them. 我校图书馆有8万册藏书,我已读了几百本。(some=several)
Some two thousand years ago, in a river in ancient India, there was a pond full of fish. 约两千多年前,古印度有一条小河,其中有个满是鱼儿的水塘。(some=about)
These college students have presented some thousands of books to the left-behind children in our village in the last four years. 这些大学生在过去的四年里已为我乡的留守儿童捐赠图书几千册了。
7. dozen和score可组成较多的习惯用语,而hundred,thousand,million,billion和trillion则比较少见,在此不赘述。Dozen和score的主要搭配如下:
dozen:
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