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至于说 How bright are its waters， playing over the stones!（在石头上流动的水波，多么的光耀！）就是为要避免把修饰语的 playing，说成动词的 are playing 的关系而将字序颠倒的。
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英文疑难详解 156．I don’t think 的句型
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“我想他不会来。”译成英文为 I think he will not come.但据说英文的惯用语法，应说成 I don’t think he will come.才对。不知照中文直译的句子是否错误？
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【解答】普通确实是要以 I don’t think he will come，来代替 I think he will not come.这似乎不及中国话的合逻辑，不过，英文已成惯用， I don’t think…早构成一种句型，不容推翻的了。在英美名作家的笔下，我们也常发现有把否定放在 think 之后的，但似乎都有其特殊的理由。例如：
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I wish you were here， then I think I should not feel like this.—— D. H. Lawrence
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I should have thought sometimes you couldn’t help thinking of the past.—— Maugham
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I think you ought not to walk at night alone， Mrs. Moore.—— E. M. Forster
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I think you need not be impolite to her， as well as to her son.—— E. M. Forster
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（5）“ I think the angels are not at all in heaven，” Mr. Esmond said.—— Thackeray
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Oh， she thinks there’s nothing like Rome.—— Henry James
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I think Blanche didn’t just love him but worshipped the ground he walked on!—— Tennessee Williams
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I think I’m just not smart enough to make any sense out of it for you.—— Arthur Miller
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（9）“ You think she’s not much like you?” Gerald asked.—— D. H. Lawrence
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But I think that Elizabeth was not quite so certain of it as I.—— Aldous Huxley
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I should think you never have seen many…—— D. H. Lawrence
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I thought you wouldn’t stand that…—— Galsworthy
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I thought we mightn’t get here.—— Greene
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I thought you didn’t want to hear， my dear.—— Dickens
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I thought that my Lord Castlewood had no brother.—— Thackeray
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I thought it explained nothing.—— Maugham
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上举例句（1）中的 I think 是插入句，可看作与其他部分无关。（2）~（5）由于 cannot help -ing， ought not， need not， not at all 等成语的集团（colony）力量，而把 I think 隔离了。（6）成语 There’s nothing like Rome.（与 home 同音的关系而套用的），故不便拆散。（7）~（10）因 not just…but， just not…enough， not much， not quite 等以 not 为核心的副词片语的影响，也不便把否定拿到 think 的前面去。可见到此为止的（1）至（10）各例句，都是不能换成 I don’t think 那种形式的，即能换写也写不出漂亮的句子来。
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问题是（11）~（16）各句，这些句子原是可以换写成 I don’t think 形式的，不过或因句中（a）含有 no， never， nothing，nobody 等的不定字，或因（b）用了过去动词的 thought，所以都不合乎 I don’t think 的 pattern.
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