公共英語二級答疑精選
問題內容:
老師:
能否詳細介紹一下should這個詞的用法,以及其語法。
老師回復:
你好!1. 用于第*人稱疑問句,表征詢意見。如:
Should I open the window? 我可以開窗戶嗎?
2. should表義務,可用于各種句式,通常指將來。如:
You should do what your parents tell you.
你應該照你父母的話去做事。
He should do some work, but he doesn’t want to.
他應該做些工作,但是他不想做。
也可指現(xiàn)在。如:
You shouldn’t feel so unhappy over such
trifles.
對這種小事,你不應該感到這么不高興。
You shouldn’t be sitting in the sun.
你不應該坐在陽光下。
3. should表推測,暗含很大的可能。如:
It’s 4:30. They should be in New York by now.
現(xiàn)在是四點半,他們應該到達紐約了。
Three weeks should suffice.
三個星期應該足夠了。
4. should可在某些從句中,表虛擬語氣。如:
I suggest that you should stay here as if nothing had happened.
我建議你應該待在這兒,好像什么事也沒有發(fā)生。
She was terrified lest they should go on talking about her.
她感到害怕,唯恐他們再說她的事。
If he should drop in, give him my message.
他若來訪,就將我的消息給他。
5. should表感情色彩,常用在以why, how開頭的疑問句中。如:
Why shouldn’t you invite him?
為什么你不邀請他?
I don’t see why we shouldn’t make friends.
我不明白為什么我們竟不能成為朋友。
How should I know? 我怎么知道?
★在that引導的從句中,should也可表惋惜、憂慮、歡樂、驚訝等感情色彩。如:
I’m sorry that you should think so badly of me.
你竟把我想得這樣壞,我感到遺憾。
It is absurd that such things should happen to a family like theirs.
真可笑,這種事竟發(fā)生在他們那樣的家庭中。
★should還用于一些特殊結構,表感情色彩。如:
That it should come to this!
事情竟到了這種地步!
To think that it should have happened to me! 誰想到這種事竟發(fā)生在我身上!