在考研英語(yǔ)中,最讓人鬧心的便是長(zhǎng)難句,但只要找出主干、理清成分也沒(méi)有那么難以對(duì)付。相反,有一些小詞,用法繁多,在不同句子中需要辨別出真正的意思就沒(méi)那么簡(jiǎn)單了,今天文都網(wǎng)校考研英語(yǔ)老師就as詞性的相關(guān)用法給大家進(jìn)行梳理。
As作介詞
從詞性來(lái)看,as主要有介詞、連詞、關(guān)系詞。當(dāng)as作為介詞時(shí),往往與動(dòng)詞搭配,形式為...as...,這時(shí)動(dòng)詞就不要使用本意,而是統(tǒng)一翻譯為將A視為B;把A看成B,在考研英語(yǔ)中出現(xiàn)的動(dòng)詞總結(jié)如下:see/view/regard/consider/identify/define/classify/interpret/dismiss/elect/accept/think of A as B。除了這些簡(jiǎn)單的詞語(yǔ)外,當(dāng)賓語(yǔ)A復(fù)雜時(shí)會(huì)后置于B,形式如下: v. as B A。我們來(lái)看一句話(huà)On the other hand he did not accept as well founded the charge made by some of his critics that while he was a good observer he had no power of reasoning.動(dòng)詞是accept,介詞是as,as后直接跟的賓語(yǔ)B(形容詞),A由于復(fù)雜后置到了B后,是the charge,后跟一系列的定語(yǔ)-made by some of his critics以及同位語(yǔ)-while he was a good observer he had no power of reasoning,這句話(huà)是說(shuō)另一方面,他認(rèn)為一些批評(píng)者的指控沒(méi)有根據(jù),指控內(nèi)容是說(shuō)雖然他是個(gè)好的觀(guān)察者,但他沒(méi)有推理能力。
As當(dāng)連詞
當(dāng)as作為連詞時(shí),可以表時(shí)間:隨著....../當(dāng)......時(shí)候(一般位于句首)。例句如下:As funding for science has declined, scientists have attacked "anti-science" in several books.隨著用于科學(xué)的資金減少,科學(xué)家在一些書(shū)中攻擊“反科學(xué)”論調(diào)。可以表原因:既然、由于=since。例句如下:We are obliged to them because some of these languages have since vanished, as the peoples who spoke them died out or became assimilated and lost their native languages.我們感激他們,是因?yàn)橐恍┱Z(yǔ)言自此以后消失了,消失是由于這些語(yǔ)言使用者已經(jīng)死去或者被同化,進(jìn)而失去了他們本族語(yǔ)言。可以表讓步:盡管、雖然,(as一定不能位于句首,位于句中第二個(gè)詞)。例句如下:
In addition, difficult as it is to believe, there are desert fish which can survive through years of drought in the form of inactive eggs.另外,盡管很難相信,確實(shí)存在沙漠魚(yú),這些魚(yú)以不活躍卵的形式在干旱中存活數(shù)年。可以表比較,as...as + 詞/句子:和...一樣、像...一樣;not so......as + 詞/句子:和...不一樣、不像...那樣;not so much...as...:與其說(shuō)...不如說(shuō)...。可以表方式,等于in the way that,按照、正如。
As作關(guān)系詞
As作為關(guān)系詞時(shí),引導(dǎo)限定性定語(yǔ)從句:先行詞前有such/the same;非限定性定語(yǔ)從句:修飾整個(gè)句子,比如As is known to all, ...;..., as is often the case;...,as you know,...。
案例分析:
句一:But he talked as well about the“balanced struggle”between creative freedom and social responsibility.該句涉及到的as的用法是as well--也,相當(dāng)于too,用法簡(jiǎn)單單一,翻譯如下:然而他也同樣討論了創(chuàng)造性的自由以及社會(huì)責(zé)任之間的制約掙扎。
句二:It identifies the undertreatment of pain and the aggressive use of ineffectual and forced medical procedures that may prolong and even dishonor the period of dying as the twin problems of end-of-life care.As出現(xiàn)在這里是作為的意思,因此是介詞,而介詞常常考察的是與其他動(dòng)詞搭配使用,往前找到常見(jiàn)動(dòng)詞identify,翻譯為把...視為臨終關(guān)懷的兩個(gè)問(wèn)題,往前找到并列的兩個(gè)問(wèn)題分別是什么,而在as前邊的結(jié)構(gòu)中,稍微有些復(fù)雜,procedures后邊跟著定語(yǔ)從句,其前邊有兩個(gè)and,其中一個(gè)and肯定是連接并列的兩個(gè)問(wèn)題,很容易看出第二個(gè)and,連接的是兩個(gè)形容詞ineffectual and forced,而第一個(gè)and并列兩個(gè)問(wèn)題,理清總體結(jié)構(gòu)后再進(jìn)行翻譯:這份報(bào)告把對(duì)疼痛的不足治療以及過(guò)度使用無(wú)效、強(qiáng)制性的醫(yī)療程序視為臨終關(guān)懷的兩個(gè)問(wèn)題,而其中的醫(yī)療程序有可能延長(zhǎng)甚至使病人死得難堪。
句三:The chief reason for the population growth isn`t so much a rise in birth rates as a fall in death rates as a result of improvements in medical care.這里出現(xiàn)固定結(jié)構(gòu)not so much...as...:與其說(shuō)...不如說(shuō)...此結(jié)構(gòu)更加強(qiáng)調(diào)的是后者,因此該句話(huà)是說(shuō)人口增長(zhǎng)的主要原因與其說(shuō)是出生率的增加,不如說(shuō)是死亡率的降低,正是醫(yī)療護(hù)理改革的結(jié)果。
句四:Thus just as earlier theories have explained the mobility of the continents, so hot spots may explain their mutability.這里也涉及一個(gè)固定結(jié)構(gòu),just as...,so...正如...一樣,...也,強(qiáng)調(diào)的是類(lèi)比結(jié)構(gòu)而非轉(zhuǎn)折關(guān)系,翻譯如下:正如先前理論解釋了大陸的移動(dòng)性,熱點(diǎn)地區(qū)也可能解釋了它們的易變性。
任何單詞、詞組的理解都要放到具體的句子、語(yǔ)篇中去理解,一方面記憶更加深刻,另外對(duì)于閱讀文章很有幫助。以上是as在句子中的某些用法,以此助大家考研一臂之力!
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