学英语 找长喜
LECTURE 10 否定结构
本堂目标：学会识别7种不同的否定结构，熟悉几种容易引起误解的否定结构与否定形式，熟练掌握各种否定结构的意义，准确翻译含有否定结构的句子。 基础预习
英语中的否定结构根据其表达方式的不同，可以分为以下几类：
一、一般否定
指否定谓语部分来实现对全句的否定，构成形式是在系动词、助动词或情态动词后加否定词not来实现的。 【例】(98-完型) Specialists in history and economics, have shown two things: that the period from 1650 to 1750 was marked by great poverty, and that industrialization certainly did not worsen and may have actually improved the conditions for the majority of the populace. 【点睛】本句所包含的否定结构借助组动词did，在其后加not构成。 【译文】历史学和经济学方面的专家已经证明了两件事：从1650年到1750年期间以极度贫困为特征，而工业化显然没有使这种状况恶化；事实上却可能改善了绝大多数平民百姓的生活条件。
二、部分否定
指否定词not和表示全体意义的代词(all，every，etc.)或副词配合使用，表示“并非?都是?”之意。 【例】(05-Text 3)
But not all parts of the brain are equally involved; the limbic system (the “emotional brain”) is especially active, while the prefrontal cortex (the center of intellect and reasoning) is relatively quiet. 【点睛】否定词not和表示全体意义的代词 all搭配使用，表示部分否定. 【译文】但并不是我们大脑所有部分的活动都是均等的；边缘系统（“感情大脑”）尤其活跃，而前额部分的脑皮层（理解和推理的中心部位）则相对安静。
三、全部否定
用no, none, nothing, nobody, nowhere, never, neither等否定词作主语或主语的定语，后面加否定式谓语构成，表示“一切?都不是?”。 【例】(02-Text 4) Although it ruled that there is no constitutional right to physician-assisted suicide, the Court in effect supported the medical principle of “double effect”, a centuries-old moral principle holding that an action having two effects — a good one that is intended and a harmful one that is foreseen — is permissible if the actor intends only the good effect. 【点睛】句中there is no...为存在句的否定形式，表示全部否定。 【译文】尽管裁定认为，宪法没有赋予医助自杀的权利，最高法院实际上却支持医疗的“双重效果”原则，这个已有好几百年历史的道德原则认为，某种行为具有双重效果—— 希望达到的好效果和可以预见到的坏效果 —— 只要行为者想要达到好的效果，就予以许可。 四、半否定 通过hardly, scarcely, barely, seldom, rarely, few, little等半否定词表示的否定结构。 【例】(01-Passage 4)
The mergers of telecom companies, such as WorldCom, hardly seem to bring higher prices for consumers or a reduction in the pace of technical progress. 【点睛】The mergers of telecom companies hardly seem to bring higher prices。其中的hardly表示半否定。 www.beiwen.com
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学英语 找长喜 【译文】像世界通讯这样的通讯公司的合并，似乎不太可能给消费者带来价格上扬，也不会导致技术发展步伐的放慢。
五、继续否定
前面已经有一个否定结构，后面又追加一个或数个否定结构，这种追加的否定结构叫继续否定结构。 【例】(05-Text 4) He is not arguing, as many do, that we can no longer think straight because we do not talk proper. 【点睛】He is not arguing?否定句式作句子的主干。that引导宾语从句，其中否定结构no longer是对前面否定词not的追加，即继续否定。 【译文】和许多人不一样，他并不认为我们谈话不准确，就不能有条理地思考。
六、双重否定
在一个句子中出现两次否定，表示“没有?就不?”或“没有?就没有?”。 【例】(04-Text 4)
Without the ability to think critically, to defend their ideas and understand the ideas of others, they cannot fully participate in our democracy. 【点睛】Without?为条件状语从句，译为“如果没有?”；情态动词can后加not构成否定，与前边的without 形成双重否定。 【译文】如果没有能力进行批判性思维，维护自己的观点，并理解他人的观点，他们就不能充分地参与到我们的民主政治中来。
七、排除否定
在一个句子结构中，如果一部分被肯定，一部分被否定，那么这种否定结构就叫排除否定结构，常用词有except, but等。
【例】(04-Text 4)
Ravitch’s latest book, Left Back: A Century of Failed School Reforms, traces the roots of anti-intellectualism in our schools, concluding they are anything but a counterbalance to the American distaste for intellectual pursuits. 【点睛】句子主干为Ravitch’s latest book traces the roots of anti-intellectualism。分词结构concluding…作伴随状语，其中的but表示“除?之外”，即排除否定。 【译文】拉维奇最新出版的一本书《落后：学校改革一个世纪的失败》追溯了我们的学校里反知识主义的根源，得出结论说它们根本不能平衡美国人对追求知识的厌恶。 重点讲解 一、容易引起误解的否定结构与否定形式 1. no more?than与not more?than
结构 no more?than意为“两者都不?”在意义上对比较的双方都给予否定；择其一，意为“与其说?倒不如说”。此外no more?than与not?any more than意思相近。 例示 1)This book is no more interesting than that one.这本书和那本一样都2)He is no more a teacher than a worker.说他是个教师，倒不如说他是个工人。 3)He is not a poet any more than I am a novelist.他不是个诗人，正如www.beiwen.com
也可表示同一人或事物的两个方面没有趣。 2
学英语 找长喜 我不是小说家一样。 not more?than意为“?比不This book is not more interesting 上?”，在意义上对比较的双方都给than that one.这本书不如那本有趣。予肯定。 (两本书都有趣)
2. no more than与not more than 结构 no more than强调“少”，译作“只有，不过，仅仅”。 例示 He said no more than we had expected.他只是说了我们所预料的而已。 not more than是客观叙述，意为“不He has not more than five dollars 超过”。 on him.他身上带的钱不超过五美元。
3. no less than，not less than与no less? than
结构 意为“竟有?之多，多达”。 not less than意为“不少于，至少”，是客观叙述 no less?than前后均为肯定，意为“正如，恰好；和?一样”等，常含有惊奇等色彩。 4. no (/little) better than与not better than 结构 no (/little) better than意为“和?一样不?，和?差不多”，表示两者都不好。 例示 I found him no better than an idiot.我发现她简直是个愚人。 例示 a rich man.穷人和富人一样都是公民。 There were no less than five thousand people at the meeting.到会的人和少于5000人。 No less an authority than Dr. James has spoken highly of the invention.连詹姆士这样的权威都高度评价这项发明。 no less than用法上等于as much as或as many as，A poor man is no less (as many) a citizen than (as) not better than意为“并不比?好，His pronunciation is not better 还不如”。 than hers.他的发音并不比她的好。 二、形式否定、意义肯定的结构 结构 cannot...too 意为“无论怎样也不过分”。 例示 We can hardly praise his achievement too much.对他的成就我们无论怎样赞扬也不过分。 no(nobody)but 意为“只有?才?”。 There is no man but has his faults.人皆有过。 no other than 意为“正是，仅仅是”。 This is no other than the book we want to buy.这正是我们要买的书。 more often than not 意为“常常，www.beiwen.com John is a fairly good swimmer. He 3
学英语 找长喜 往往”。 wins more often than not.约翰是个游泳健将，他常常在比赛中获奖。
三、形式肯定、意义否定的结构
句子形式上看不到否定词，但含有一些特定的词组来表示否定意义，如prevent…from，rather than，too…to，fail等。
结构 例示 more than one can help 意为“尽量Don’t tell him more than you can 不，绝对不”。 help.能不跟他讲就尽量不跟他讲。 more A than B 意为“是A不是B；与The book seems to be more a 其说是B，不如说是A”。 dictionary than a grammar.这本书看起来与其说是一本语法书，不如说是一本词典。 anything but 意为“绝对不，根本不I will do anything but that.我决是，一点也不”。 不干那种事。 rather than意为“而不是”，强调是We are taught that a business letter 前者而不是后者。 should be written in a formal style rather than in a personal one. 在学校里老师教我们，商业信函应该采用正式的文体来写，而不是用私人化的风格来写。 too?to意为“太?而不能?”。 The limited liability companies were too large to run smoothly. 有限责任公司太大以致于不能平稳运行。 【例】（01-完形） Publication of the letter came two days after Lord Irvine caused a storm of media protest when he said the interpretation of privacy controls contained in European legislation would be left to judges rather than to Parliament. 【点睛】rather than连接两个并列的介词短语to judges与to Parliament，前肯前者，而否定后者。 【译文】大法官Irvine说，对欧洲立法中所包含的关于个人隐私监探权的解释，将留给法官，而不是议会。这招致新闻媒体的一片抗议。此后两天，信被公之于世。
四、否定转移
否定转移是指形式上否定谓语，但在逻辑语义上是否定句子的其他部分。 【例】
You don’t love a woman because she is beautiful, but she is beautiful because you lover her. 【点睛】该句包含否定转移。这里形式上是否定谓语love，但实际上是否定原因从句。因此，这句不能译成“不要去爱一个女人，因为她太美丽”。 【译文】你并不是因为她的美貌而爱她，是因为你爱她而觉得她美。
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学英语 找长喜 课堂练习 难句分析
1. Even if a job’s starting salary seems too small to satisfy an emerging adult’s need for rapid content, the transition from school to work can be less of a setback if the start-up adult is ready for the move. (07-Part B)
2. As a linguist, he acknowledges that all varieties of human language, including non-standard ones like Black English, can be powerfully expressive — there exists no language or dialect in the world that cannot convey complex ideas. (05-Text 4)
3. The mergers of telecom companies, such as WorldCom, hardly seem to bring higher prices for consumers or a reduction in the pace of technical progress.
4．In such a case, the child often fails to develop the values the parents wish to instill in him, developing instead antisocial habits leading to deviant behavior in later life.
5. Rather than inserting a gene directly, they removed the immune cells from people and replaced them with versions that had been modified to resist the virus.1. Superhigh scores like vos Savant’s are no longer possible, because scoring is now based on a statistical population distribution among age peers, rather than simply dividing the mental age by the chronological age and multiplying by 100. (07-Text 2)
.6. Many authors feel that the conventions of the written language hamper them and they use words freely, with little observance of accepted grammar and sentence structure, in order to convey vividly their feelings, beliefs and fantasies. 7. The expansion of higher education which has taken place, and more particularly the expansion which is likely to take place, simply makes it unlikely that all those who are legitimately involved in the teaching and who fulfill their responsibilities utterly in that regard, are themselves all capable of adding anything worth having to the sum total of human knowledge.
8. Immigrants are quickly fitting into this common culture, which may not be altogether elevating but is hardly poisonous. (06-Text 1) 课堂讲评
1. 【分析】复合句。Even if引导让步状语从句，too…to…结构作该状语从句的表语，表示含蓄否定；主句the transition…can be…中又包含一个if引导的条件状语从句。
【译文】即使工作之初的工资可能太少不能满足孩子刚步入成年时萌发的那种得到及时满足的需要，但是如果他们准备充分，这种由学校到工作的过渡就不会是一种挫折。 2. 【分析】复合句。第一个that引导的从句作acknowledges的宾语，从句的主干是all varieties of human language…can be powerfully expressive，而including non-standard ones like Black English是插入语；破折号后的存在句是双重否定句，包含一个that引导的定语从句，修饰language or dialect。
【译文】作为一个语言学家，他承认所有种类的人类语言，包括不规范的语言，像黑人英语，都具有强大的表达能力——世上不存在无法传达复杂思想的语言或方言。 3. 【分析】简单句。句子主干为The mergers hardly seem to bring higher prices or a reduction。其中hardly表示半否定；such as WorldCom为插入语。
【译文】像世界通讯这样的通讯公司的合并，似乎不太可能给消费者带来价格上扬，也不会导致技术发展步伐的放慢。
4. 【分析】复合句。本句主干是the child often fails to develop the values?。fail表示一种含蓄否定，与develop一起，译为“不能发展?”；the parents wish to instill in him为省略了引导词的定语从句，修饰the values；developing instead?是现在分词短语作状语，其中的leading to?in later life作定语修饰habits。
【译文】在这种情况下，孩子通常不能发展其父母希望灌输给他们的价值观，相反，孩子会形成反社会的习惯，这些习惯会导致其今后生活中的不正常行为。
5. 【分析】复合句。Rather than?为状语提前，意为“没有?，而是?”；主句中包含that引导的定语从句修饰versions。
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王长喜老师 考研15堂语法课 第10堂_否定结构
