英语中的否定句

exercises

● 1. She is no fool.

● 2. He is not incapable.

● 3. She never comes without bringing some candy for the children.

● 4. His pronunciation is not better than mine.

● 5. His success is out of the question.

● 6. His success is out of question.

●7. we cannot exaggerate its importance.

●8. I can’t help thinking that he is still alive.

●9. It is an ill wind that blows nobody good.

●10. They sent him to Coventry.

● 1.她很聪明。

● 2. 他很能干。

● 3. 她每次来都给孩子们带糖果。

● 4. 他的发音和我的一样糟。

● 5. 他根本不可能成功。

● 6. 毫无疑问他会成功。

●7. 我们再怎么强调其重要性都不为过。

●8. 我不禁想到他肯能还活着。

●9. 再糟的事情也会有人受益。

●10. 他们都不理睬他。

否定句

●There are not a few good sentences in his composition.

●There is not a little water in the jar.

●It wasn’t half hot there.

●It isn’t half rainy today!

●Your new car is not half bad.

●（说明：not a half 的意思比较麻烦，它一般表示“很，非常”，但如果它后

面跟的词本身是表示贬义或否定的，那它的意思就是“一点也不”，所以最后一句话是：你的新车很不错。）

●It can’t be worse.

●I cannot agree with you more.

●The boiler cannot be overheated.

●It cannot be too much emphasized that agriculture is foundation of the

national economy.

●I can’t but go with you.

●You can’t be too careful when you are driving.

●We cannot be thankful enough to him.

●（说明：can’t 与比较级、too, too many/much, more,及带有over前缀的词

等出现在同一句子中时，要特别小心，它的意思往往是：再。。。也不为过）●He is too careful not to have noticed it.（他非常仔细，不会注意不到。）

●We are only/but/all too pleased to help you.

●eager, anxious, willing, ready, apt….（too前面如果有only、but或all，那

么too。。。to结构就不再表示否定，而是指“非常”之意。如例句的意思是：我们非常乐意帮助你。）

●The truth is quite other than what you think.

●I, rather than you, should do the work.

●But for the workers’ help, we should not have succeeded in this

experiment.

●He is nothing but modest.

●He is anything but modest.

hardly ,scarcely, barely,

no sooner…than…….（此句型表示：一。。。就。。。）

Hardly had we arrived home when the phone rang.

No sooner had we got to the cinema than the film began.

I didn’t teach bec ause it was an easy job.

He didn’t get angry because the boy was naughty.

（说明：not和because等表示原因的词连用，常常否定的是后面的原因，而不是紧跟在not之后的内容。我教书不是因为它是个容易的工作。他生气不是因为孩子淘气。）

●There is no doubt but he will recover.

●There is no question but he’s the guilty one.

●（这两个短语表示“毫无疑问”）

●All is not gold that glitters/All that glitters is not gold.

●Both are not clever.

●But all men are not born to reign.

●Opportunity comes to all, but all are not ready for them when they come.

●（说明：not与all、both等表示“全部”、“都”意义的词连用，表示部分否定。