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You had better go back——the risk is great.—— Thomas Hardy
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The boys had better cease shouting.—— Mc Mordie
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When he proposed to fly across the Atlantic， I said “ You had better not try!”—— Kirkpatrick
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You had better not take away any wine， because it would disagree with you.—— Kruger
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这个 had better 有时可以说成 had best，不过没有前者的普通（far less common）。例如：
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I’d best go and settle the score.—— Thackerary
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I had best start for home.
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又 had better 还有一种过去形，不过不大用。例如： You had better do it.的过去形，即是 You had better have done it.而 It had better be done.的过去形，即是 It had better have been done. 在 Crowell 的 Dictionary of English Grammar 中举有 You had better stayed here （= You would have done better to stay here）.一例，其实那是应该视为 It would have been better （for you）， if you had stayed here.——一个条件句的省略说法。英国诗人 Tennyson 的诗句： Hadst thou been braver， I had better braved all.中的 I had better have braved all.也属于这一类。据 Modern English Usage 的著者 Fowler 说，这种过去形当中的 have（即 had better have done 及 had better have been done）是不可以省略的，可是英美人却常要犯这种错误。为什么不能省呢？例如 would have taken.被省为 would taken 一样，其理自明，毋庸多说。
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再看下例更可证明 would rather 或 had better 后接的过去动词是另一个条件句的省略的说法：
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Unfortunately， many a foreigner gets the distinct impression that the U. S. would rather he stayed home.（不幸的是许多外国人都得到一个明确的印象：美国并不怎样欢迎他们去观光。）
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这是1960年12月19日美国出版的 Time 上的句子，句中用了 would rather he stayed home 的字样，即是一反平常在 would rather 后接原形动词，如 I would rather stay home.的说法，其实这只是条件句的省略，这个 stayed 即等于说 if he stayed home.他例如：
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I would rather I went.（我宁去。）
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这种假设语气也可以用在现在动词的后面，如：
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It’s time I went.（我要走了。）
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在 had better 或 had best 的后面，现代英文规定要接没有 to 的不定词，但在 Older English 中这个不定词的 to 还保存着，例如 Richardson 就写过这样的句子：
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—— He knew not whether he had best to run or to stand his ground.
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但现代英文是不可以把不定词的 to 保留的。
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英文疑难详解 158．美国语中 the way 的用法
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美国话中常见有 the way 的用法，例如： It was pitiful the way he kept complaining to his wife. 不知应如何译法？
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【解答】way 的意义由“道路”引申而为“方法”，如：
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the way she spoke hurt me.（她说话的方式伤害了我。）
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the way I know.（用我所知道的方法。）
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在 the way 之前省略了一个 in 字。在美国口语里说的 the way 多少受了一些爱尔兰语的影响，所以跟英文原来的用法又有些不同了。美国话用 the way 来引导出一个副词子句时，便有 as（有如）或 according as（依照）的意思，例如：
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