“the way+从句”结构的意义及用法
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“theway+从句”结构的意义及用法
首先让我们来看下面这个句子:
Read the followingpassageand talkabout it wi th your classmates.Try totell whatyou think of Tom and ofthe way the childrentreated him.
在这个句子中,the way是先行词,后面是省略了关系副词that或in which的定语从句。
下面我们将叙述“the way+从句”结构的用法。
1.the way之后,引导定语从句的关系词是that而不是how,因此,<<现代英语惯用法词典>>中所给出的下面两个句子是错误的:This is thewayhowithappened. This is the way how he always treats me.
2.在正式语体中,that可被in which所代替;在非正式语体中,that则往往省略。由此我们得到theway后接定语从句时的三种模式:1) the way+that-从句2)the way +in which-从句3) the way +从句
例如:The way(in which ,that) thesecomrade slookatproblems is wrong.这些同志看问题的方法
不对。
Theway(that ,in which)you’re doingit is comple tely crazy.你这么个干法,简直发疯。
Weadmired him for theway inwhich he facesdifficulties.
Wallace and Darwingreed on the way inwhi ch different forms of life had begun.华莱士和达尔文对不同类型的生物是如何起源的持相同的观点。
This is the way(that) hedid it.
I likedthe way(that) sheorganized the meeting.
3.theway(that)有时可以与how(作“如何”解)通用。例如:
That’s the way(that) shespoke. = That’s how shespoke.
I should like toknow theway/how you learned to master the fundamentaltechniquewithin so s hort a time.
4.the way的其它用法:以上我们讲的都是用作先行词的th eway,下面我们将叙述它的一些用法。
1)用作as或according as,引导状语从句,常见于美国英语。如:
I like itthewayitis.
Even today, political mapsreflect the world theway we want it tolook.
时至今日,政治地图不是按我们想要看到的那样来反映世界。
Kings played maps the way weplay board games.君主们玩地图就象我们玩棋子一样。
Ialways thought shewas a common-sense personwho discussedthings the way they oughtto be discussed.我一向认为好是个明达的人,讨论问题总是该怎样讨论
就怎样讨论。
Theway I look atit, it’snot what you do thatmatter so much.依我看,重要的并不是你做什么。
No wonderthat girl despises me, the wayyou encourageher.难怪那位姑娘看不起我,原来是你在作怪。
2)用作that,引导主语从句,常见于美国英语。如:
It’s a sin the way he keeps on doing it.他不停这样做,实在是一种罪过。(=It’sasin thathe keeps…)
It waspitiful the way he kept complaining to hiswife.他不停地向妻子诉苦,真够可怜的。
3)用作how(作“多么”解)或how much,引导名词性从句。如:
No oneexcept you,noteven the children, can understandthe way I missDave.除了你以外,没有人会明白我多么思念大卫,甚至连孩子们也不会明白。
4)在下面的句子中,way意为“道路”,故后面的介词用了by:
There was a high rock at the farend sothat there was only one way into this placethewaybywhich we had come.那一头有一块高大的岩石、所以只有一条路能走进这块地方,那就是我们进来的那条路。
5)下面句子中的way意为“方式、方法”,但前面是限定词a ny和no,所以后面的介词也没用in:
I cannever hear the lovely noise of the seaneveragainsee thebeautiful flowers and the sun!Tellme, grandmother, isthere any way by which I can get a soul?我再也听不到大海可爱的涛声,再也看不见美丽的花朵和太阳!告诉我,祖母,有什么办法让我得到一个灵魂呢?
“One red rose isall Iwant,” cried the nightingale,“ onlyone redrose! Is there no way bywhichI canget it?”“我只要一朵红蔷薇,”夜莺叫道,“只是一朵红蔷薇!我就没有办法可以得到它吗