something用法总结
something可用作不定代词,表示有价值的事物,某种令人不快的事情等;用作名词时,有大致,左右等含义。用作副词时,通常与形容词连用,有非常,很的意思。
something用作不定代词
1.表示“聊以自慰的事”、“有价值的事物”的意思。例:
It’s something to have a job at all these days.
现在能找到一份工作就算不错了。
2.表示“某种令人不快的事情”。例:
There is something in the word.
好像要发生什么事情。
3.表示“一些吃的喝的东西”的意思。例:
A little something with his meals was an absolute necessity to him.
就餐时少许喝点酒对他来说是绝不可少的。
4.表示“实有之物”的意思。例:
Some people will never learn that you can’t get something for nothing.
有些人永远不懂人不能不劳而获的道理。
5.表示模糊的概念。例:
Our train gets in at two something.
我们的这班火车2点多到达。
something用作名词
1.相当于somebody,意为“重要的人物”。例:
She thinks she’s something since she won the beauty contest.
选美比赛得了奖,她就自以为了不起了。
She acts as if she were something since she won the prize.
自从获奖以来她就表现得自命不凡了。
2.表示“重要的事物”。例:
These paintings were really something.
这些画确实出色。
I think you may have something there.
我认为在那方面你可能是有道理的。
3.表示“少量”、“一些”、“部分”。例:
It is customary to give something to the porter.
给搬行李的服务员一点儿赏钱是个惯例。
There is something of her mother in her smile.
她的微笑有几分像她母亲。
something用作副词
1.something用作副词,表示“几分”、“有点”、“稍微”、“大约”的意思。例:
In something under half an hour there was a knock at the door.
过了半小时不到一些,听到一下叩门声。
2.something like表示“几分像”、“有点像”、“大约”的意思。例:
The building looks something like a church.
这栋建筑物看起来有点像教堂。
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