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Unit 3
Diverse Cultures
-----Discovering Useful Structures
Therefore, since brevity is the soul of wit, and tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes, I will be brief.
所以,既然简洁是智的灵魂,冗长是肤浅的藻饰,我还是把话说得简单一些吧。
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Read the following sentences and find the words that have been omitted to avoid repetition.
A: Oh, I just love nachos! Mexican corn chips covered in cheese!
B: Me, too.
A: So it's the food of many different cultures, all in one dish?
B: Exactly.
A real mix of cultures here!
Can't wait!
They are
I love nachos
and they are
it's the food of many different cultures , and they are all in one dish.
There is
to go there
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What is Ellipsis?
Why should we use Ellipsis?
为了避免重复,将句子中的一个或几个成分省去, 这种语法现象叫省略。省略是避免重复、突出新信息并使上下文紧密连接的一种语法手段。
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Ellipsis
词的省略
句法的省略
冠词
介词
不定式
定语
谓语
主语
助动词
表语
系动词
宾语
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词的省略
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冠词
表示家庭成员、亲属关系的人,可以省略其前的冠词把该词大写,作为专有名词看待。
Father likes sports, but Mother likes watching TV.
爸爸喜欢体育运动,但妈妈喜欢看电视。
Grandpa is over ninety, but he is full of energy.
爷爷已经九十多岁了,可还是精力充沛。
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冠词
表示独一无二的头衔或职位名称,作同位语表语宾语补足语时,其前常省略定冠词。
He is captain of the basketball team.
他是篮球队的队长。
My brother was elected dean of the physics department.
我哥哥被选为物理系主任。
He has decided to quit as manager of the team.
他已决定辞掉队伍经理的职务。
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介词
在表示一段时间的名词短语中 for 可以省略。
I stayed in Washington (for) four years.
我在华盛顿待了4年。
The fire lasted (for) many hours.
大火持续了很多个小时。
在否定句中或用在句首时, “for +一段时间”不可省略for。
I haven't heard from him for a long time.
我很长时间没收到他的来信了。
For a whole year , I was helping my dad on the farm.
整年我都在农场帮我爸爸。
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介词
时间状语中介词的省略。
They will arrive Tuesday. 他们要在星期二到达
You may come here any day. 你哪天来都行。
I'll go to see you next week. 我下周将去看你。
表示时间意义的名词,如day, afternoon, night, week, month, year, century 等,之前有 all, any, each, every, next, first, last, this, that, one, following 等词修饰,在句中用作时间状语时,可以省去相应的介词,“在星期几”之前的介词on也经常省略。
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介词
在方式状语中省略介词。
It is more convenient (in) that way.
那样的话更方便。
He will never manage it (in) that way!
那样的话他永远都做不成。
在方式状语中省略介词。
of与 age, colour, length, width, depth, height, shape, size, th