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写作社群里面有同学问到了新概念四第41课的一个句子: There are even stories of half-trained elephant calves who have refused to feed and pined to death when by some unavoidable circumstance they have been deprived of their own trainer. (甚至有这样的故事:训练了一半的小象,由于不可避免的情况与他们的主人分离后,竟拒绝吃食,消瘦至死。) half-trained elephant calves who have refused to feed,其中feed属于不及物动词用法,意思是“进食”,比如:Frogs generally feed at night. 青蛙一般在夜间进食。pine也是一个不及物动词,意思是“(因某人去世或离开而)悲伤憔悴”。 后半句用的是by some unavoidable circumstance而不是by some unavoidable circumstances,如何理解呢? 这属于some的一种特殊用法。单词除了可以修饰名词复数之外,还可以修饰可数名词单数和不可数名词,此时它的意思不是“一些”,而是 表
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