高三英语:不可数名词前冠词的用法
来源:学大教育 时间:2013-12-22
不可数名词前通常不用冠词,但在下列情况下不可数名词则和可数名词一样,前面需用冠词:
(1) 当一个抽象名词或物质名词被限定时,它前面要用定冠词the。
The milk in the bottle has gone sour. [指这瓶中的牛奶]
The freedom you discussed just now is nowhereto be found in the world (在世界上根本找不到). [主语部分是“你们刚才讨论的自由”,系特指]
(2) 抽象名词或物质各词的前、后加上表示其特殊性质或类别的修饰语时,该名词前面应加不定冠词a或an,不能用定冠词 the。
This is green tea. [绿茶系物质名词,前面不用冠词]
This is a green tea which was picked beforethe first rain in spring. [指第一场谷雨落下前采摘下的雨前茶,表示该茶的一种特殊性质,故前面须用a]
Amy's room is furnished with simplicity. [simplicity系抽象名词,前不用冠词。]
Amy's room is furnished with a simplicity that is almost elegant. [指近乎雅致的简单,表示不是一般的simplicity,点出它的特殊性质,放前面须用 a]
Mary Lee speaks English with fluency. [fluency系抽象名词,前不用冠词]
Mary Lee speaks English with a fluency no to be expected of an ordinary Chinese school girl. [指讲英语流利的程度远非一般中国女学生所能达到,表示 fluency 的一种特殊性质,前面须用a]
The man disappeared with suddenness. [suddenness系抽象名词,前面无冠词]
At the crack of the shotgun the bird disappeared with a startling suddenness. [鸟一听见枪声就以惊人的速度飞走了,表示了非同一般的 suddenness,故前面用 a]
[分析]
A和B都对,因作“思想”或“思想修养”解时,mind前有定冠词the,如: Reading is good for the mind.
C中but在这里用作副词,相当于only.
soil(泥土)是物质名词,通常前面不用冠词,但这里soil为形容词barren所修饰,barren soil指不毛之地,barren表示了此soil与其他soil不同的特殊性质,故前面应加上不定冠词a,即a barren soil。