something用法总结

文/苏思楠

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用法总结

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。