SCI写作定冠词用法

冠词使⽤法

⾮完全总结，请结合语境

⽤对帮助理解，节省字数

⽤错产⽣歧义，造成错误

When referring to something

that is already known

•We often forget climate change is also impacting the quantity, quality, and growing locations of our food. The following foods have already felt the impact.

•New energy cars – which at least partly rely on electric engines — have sold in increasing numbers in China in recent years. But as the first wave of such vehicles need new batteries, the country still lacks an adequate collection and recycling system to dispose of the old ones.

When there is only one of

something or someone

•I want to know the truth.

•Who ate the cheese?

•The real meaning behind Mr. Bannon’s departure is that no one really knows what President Trump’s agenda is.

•Is he the one?

•the cream/ the foundation 世界上只有⼀个

•the bund 世界上只有⼀个

•I met him on the street. I went to the cinema •go to the toilet/ bathroom

•go to the beach

•cross the road

•hit the bar

•Many of them may become scarce within the next 30 years. •60% of the time, it works.

•Employee of the Year

•in recent years/ the past few years

With dates, ordinal numbers and

decades

•the 16th of September（简写）

•the third person to arrive

•the 20th century

•in the 1940s（中⽂+1）

•rank 50th (rank among the top 50)

When we use a singular noun to

represent a group

•the kidney is a vital organ 定冠词+单数名词泛指器官

•The water clock was invented in China.

•the wheel

•the internal combustion engine

•the steam engine

•the Internet

•the telephone

•the mastiff is a breed of dog (=mastiffs are前⾯复数和后⾯单数不冲突)

When we talk generally about

the environment

•the ENVIRONMENT (sun/ earth/ moon/ solar system)

•the atmosphere

•in the wild (nature不⽤加定冠词); in the open

•I live in the dessert. He fell into the water.（generally talk about the environment）•... tons of plastic end up in the ocean each year.

With newspapers, magzines and

journals

•the Guardian

•the FT

•the Economist

•the Lancet

•the New York Times

•China Daily

With organizations

•the UN; the EU （下设机构同理）

•the European Commission欧盟委员会

•the European Parliament 欧洲理事会

•the European Court欧洲法院

•the ICC; the IMF; the AIIB（Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank）

•the Society of Authors（⼤⼩写-英国作家学会）

•the Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC美国证监会)

•exceptions: UNICEF联合国⼉童基⾦会, UNESCO（展开）, SASAC国有资产监督管理委员会, SAFE 能连读的不加定冠词