It is not who rules us that is important, but how he rules us.
3. All+抽象名词或抽象名词+itself(very+形容词)
He was all gentleness to her.
4. 利用词汇重复表示强调
A crime is a crime a crime.
5. something(much)of和nothing(little)of
something of相当于to some extent,表示程度。在疑问句或条件从句中,则为anything of,可译为有点,略微等。译为毫无,全无.much of译为大有,not much of可译为算不上,称不上,little of可译为几乎无.something like译为有点像,略似。
They say that he had no university education, but he seems to be something of a scholar.
6. 同格名词修饰是指of前后的两个名词都指同一个人或物,of以及它前面的名词构一个形容词短语,以修饰of后面的那个名词。如her old sharper of a father,可译为:她那骗子般的父亲.
Those pigs of girls eat so much.
7. as…as…can(may)be
It is as plain as plain can be.
8. It is in(with)…as in(with)
It is in life as in a journey.
9. as good as…相等于,就像,几乎如;实际上,其实,实在。
The merchant as good as promised the orphan boy, that he would adopt him.
10.many as well…as和might as well …as many
as well…as可译为与其……,不如……,更好,以这样做……为宜,如同……,也可以……等等。might as well…as表示不可能的事,可译为犹如……,可与……一样荒唐,与其那样不如这样的好等等。
One may as well not know a thing at all as know it imperfectly.
11.to make…of的译法(使……成为……,把……当作)
I will make a scientist of my son.
12. oo…+不定式,not(never)too…+不定式,too…not+不定式
She is too angry to speak.
13. only(not, all, but, never) too …to do so 和too ready (apt) + to do结构中,不定式也没有否定意义,凡是not,allbut等字后+too…to,不定式都失去了否定意义,在too ready(apt) +to do结构中,不定式也没有否定意义。
You know but too yell to hold your tongue.
14. no more …than…句型
A home without love is no more a home than a body without a soul is a man.
15. not so much…as和not so much as …结构,not so much…as=not so much as …,其中as有进可换用but rather,可译为:与其说是……毋须说是…….而not so much as=without(not)even,可译为甚至……还没有.
The oceans do not so much divide the world as unite it.