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英文疑难详解 22．this 的误用
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“狩鹿可以使人成为更好的游猎者，这个使得一般的猎户获益良多。”译为 Deer hunting makes a man a better sportsman. This is taught the average hunter in many ways.似有欠妥，请为改正。
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【解答】译文中 This 一字，所指模糊不明，因为它所指的原是 Deer hunting，而现在用作指前面整个的句子了，全句似可这样修正：
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Deer hunting makes a man a better sportsman，by which the average hunter is taught in many ways.
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下面几个例句中 this 的用法都有问题，可供译作上的研究。
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I hate to see two houses being built on one lot，because this would seem like living in a cracker box.（我讨厌看到两幢屋子建在一块划分的土地上，因为这样好像使人有住在饼干盒中的感觉。）句中的 this 改为 living there 就很好了。
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At an early age the youth will develop his personality traits，and the kind of home life he has will greatly influence this.（青年人的个性很早就会发展出来，而他的家庭生活对他个性的发展是很有影响的。）句中最后一字 this 是无可代表的，应改为 the development.
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The harpoon has to be fired with deadly accuracy;this is why an experienced harpooner receives twenty thousand dollars a year.（射鲸的鱼叉要射得极其准确才行，所以一个有经验的射手可以收入两万块钱一年。）句中的 this is why 三字改为 therefore 一字就没有问题了。
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英文疑难详解 23．they 的误用
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“在仓库里我们找到了一张合用的桌子，虽则要两个礼拜他们才能送来。”译成 At the warehouse we found a suitable table，although it would be two weeks before they could deliver it to us.不知译得对么？
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【解答】译文中的 they 所代表的为何人，句中没有明白说出，即是交代不清，对英文本身颇有问题，改正的办法是将它削去，全句可改译为：
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At the warehouse we found a suitable table，although it could not be delivered to us until after two weeks.
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再看下面一句：
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In earlier days，learning was acquired through memorizing，copying，and repeating；they merely continued what other people had learned.（在古代，学问是由记忆、抄写和重述而得到的，它们只能把别人所学的继续保留下来罢了。）句中的 they 是想要用来代表上述的记忆、抄写和重述，但意思不分明，如果把 they 改为 people，再把后面的 other people 改为 others，就更明白而无瑕疵了。
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英文疑难详解 24．whose duty it is to do 中 it 的用法
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There is a second man，whose duty it is to open the box.句中的 it 指什么，从文法上看它是什么作用？如果不用这个 it，句子不也很通吗？
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【解答】在这个句子中，确实是 it 的有无同样通顺，不过有 it 时，更为普通而已。现就质问中的例句来研究一下：
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There is a second man，whose duty it is to open the box.（另外还有一人，他的任务就是开箱。）
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在这句 whose 以下，我们可以改写为 and his duty it is to open the box=and it is his duty to open the box.但在意义上和说 and his duty is to open the box 并无不同，只是语气加重了一些而已。我们不妨从文法的分析来探求这个 it 的来龙去脉，就知道我那加重语气的说法是不错的。
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A teacher’s duty is to teach.加重时说 It is a teacher’s duty to teach.
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A teacher is a person whose duty is to teach.加重时说 A teacher is a person whose duty it is to teach.
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