主语为many a/more than one/every/each+单数名词或one of/every one of/either of/neither of/each of+复数名词时,谓语动词用单数形式。
例句: Caught in the web of its own time and place, each generation of historians determines anew what is significant for it in the past. (选自1999年Part IV)
分析: 该句是复合句,主干部分是each generation of historians determines anew……,what is significant for it in the past是determines的宾语从句,过去分词caught in the web of……作主语补足语。
译文: 每一代史学家在重新确定那些对他们具有重大意义的史实时,都会受到自身时空的局限。
例句: Each of these social sciences has a subfield or specialization which lies particularly close to anthropology. (选自2003年Part B)
分析: 该句是复合句,which lies……是修饰subfield or specialization的定语从句。
例句: Every boy and every girl has a right to be educated in our country, whether his/her family is rich or poor.
分析: 该句是并列句,whether his family is rich or poor这一分句表示让步。
译文: 在我国,无论男孩女孩都有权利接受教育,不管家庭贫穷与否。
(十一)“a lot of+不可数名词(复数名词)”等结构的主谓一致
a lot of/lots of/heaps of/a load of/loads of/the rest/the last/half of/part of/enough of/a great (good) deal of+ 不可数名词 + 单数谓语动词
复数名词 + 复数谓语动词
例句: A great deal of attention is being paid today to the socalled digital divide—the division of the world into the info (information) rich and the info poor.
例句: The weeds and tall grass in that yard make the house look as if it had been vacant for quite some time.
分析: 该句是复合句,其中as if后引导的方式状语从句作look的宾语。
译文: 院子里的杂草和长得很高的青草使这房子看起来好像相当长一段时间没住过人似的。
例句: The capacity and efficiency with which your body can perform depends on the degree of development of both your muscular and organic power through regular exercise.
分析: 该句是复合句,主干部分为the capacity and efficiency depends on the degree of development, with which your body can perform是修饰the capacity and efficiency的定语从句,介词短语of both your muscular and……修饰development.
译文: 你的身体所能表现出来的能力和效能取决于你的肌肉和有机能量通过日常锻炼而达到的程度。
(十三)数词与表示时间、金钱、度量衡、温度等名词
这类名词作主语表示一定量或总量时,谓语动词用单数形式。
例句: Two years seems a long time for a patient who has to lie in bed, and do nothing.
分析: 该句是复合句, who has to lie in bed, and do nothing是修饰a patient的定语从句。
译文: 对于一个不得不躺在床上并且无事可做的病人来说,两年时间的确很漫长。
例句: Sixty kilograms is a heavy weight for her, so she will try her best to make regular exercises for losing the weight.
分析: 该句是并列句。
译文: 60公斤对她来说的确是太重了,于是她将尽最大努力通过日常锻炼来减肥。
(十四)分数或百分比+ of+单数名词+单数动词
复数名词+复数动词
例句: By the third generation, one third of Hispanic women are married to nonHispanics, and 41 percent of AsianAmerican women are married to nonAsians.
例句: But the human mind can glimpse a rapidly changing scene and immediately disregard the 98 percent that is irrelevant, instantaneously focusing on the monkey at the side of a winding forest road or the single suspicious face in a big crowd.
(选自2002年Text 2)
分析: 该句是复合句,主干部分是the human mind can glimpse……and disregard the 98 percent,分词短语focusing on在句中作伴随状语。