1.用助动词“do(does/did)+动词原形”来表示强调:
Do write to me when you get there.你到那儿后务必给我来信。
The baby is generally healthy,but every now and then she does catch a cold.
那孩子的健康状况尚好,但就是偶尔患感冒。
Do be quiet.I told you I had a headache.
务必安静,我告诉过你,我头疼。
2.用形容词very,only,single,such等修饰名词或形容词来加强语气:
Red Army fought a battle on this very spot.
红军就在此地打过一仗。
Not a single person has been in the office this afternoon.
今天下午竟然没有一个人来过办公室。
This is the very question that deserves careful analysis. 这正是值得仔细分析的问题。
How dare you buy such expensive jewels?你怎么敢买这么贵的宝石呢?
3.用副词only,even,too,ever,never,very,just等副词和badly,highly,really等带有-l y的副词来进行强调:
He drank it to the very last drop.
他把它喝得一干二净。
Only in this way can we wipe out the enemy troops.(倒装结构)
只有用这样的方法我们才能消灭敌军。
He didn't answer even my letter.
他甚至连我的信都未回。
I will too go!我要去的!
I really don’t know what to do next.我的确不知道下一步该怎么做。
4.用in the world,on earth,at all等介词短语可以表达更强的语气(常用于疑问句); 用短语“in every way”,“in no way”,“by all means”,“by no means”,“only too”,“all too”,“but too”,“in heaven”,“in the world”,“in hell”,“on earth”,“under the sun”等表示强调; 用“...and that”,“...and those”,“not...too much”,“否定加否定”等结构表示强调:
His behaviour was in every way perfect.
他的举止确实无可挑剔。
By all means take your son with you.
你一定要把儿子带来。
The news was only too true.
这消息确实是事实。
It was over all too soon!
此事的确了结得很快!
Where in heaven were you then?
当时你到底在哪里?
Nobody under the sun would buy that car.
确实没有人会买那辆车。
They fulfilled the task,and that in a few days.
他们在几天内完成的就是那项任务。
I gave her some presents,and those the day before yesterday.
前天我送给她的就是那些礼物。
I can't thank you too much.我无论怎样感谢你都不过份。
I am not unfaithful to you.我对你无比忠诚。
Where in the world could he be?他到底会在哪儿?
5.用感叹句来表示强烈的感情,突出说话人的情感:
How interesting a story it is!这是一个多么有趣的故事啊!
6.用重复来表示强调:
Why!why!The cage is empty!啊!啊!箱子是空的。
7.用倒装句(也就是将要强调的句子或被强调的部分置于句首)来加强语气:
Dishonest he is!他的确不诚实!
In wine is the truth. 酒后吐真言。
On the table were some flowers.桌上摆着一些花。(强调地点)
8.用强调句型:“It is(was)+被强调的部分+that(who)+原句其它部分”来强调说话人的意愿:
It was on Monday night that all this happened.所有这一切发生在周一晚上。
It was the headmaster who opened the door for me.
正是校长为我开的门。
It was yesterday that we carried out that experiment.
就是在昨天我们做了那个实验。
Was it yesterday that he met Li Ping?
It was not until his wife came back that he went to bed.
9.用If来表示强调:
1)If从句+I don’t know who/what,etc.does/is/has,etc.
主语部分也可以用nobody does/is/has,etc.或everybody does/is/has,et c.来代替(这里的if从句往往是正话反说,反话正说):
If he can’t do it,I don’t know who can.要是他做不了这件事,我不知道还有谁能做。(强调只有他能做) If Jim is a coward,everybody is.要是吉姆是个胆小鬼,那么人人都是胆小鬼。(强调吉姆不是胆小鬼)
2)if从句+it be主句(此用法可看成是“It is(was)+被强调的部分+that(who)+原句其它部分”强调句型的变形,即把所要强调的内容放在it be的后面,把其它内容放在由if引导的从句中):
If anyone knew the truth,it was Tom.如果说谁了解事实的真相,那便是汤姆。
10.用破折号、黑体字也可以表示强调,加强语气:
It’s because of hard work—ten years of hard work.那是因为艰苦的工作--十年艰苦的工作!
He began the work in late May.他在五月底开始的这项工作。(强调时间)
知识拓展:
(1)、复杂结构句子在强调结构中的运用
句子结构比较复杂时,尤其是当被强调成分比较复杂时,有的同学们就不能识别句子所用的强调结构,从而不能正确作出选择。如:
It was lack of money, not of effort, that defeated their plan. 他们的计划受挫,原因是缺少钱而不是没有尽力。
It was more in sorrow than in anger that he criticized his former colleague. 他批评以前的同事,并非出于气愤而是为他惋惜。
It is the protection for the trees that really matters, rather than how many trees are planted. 真正重要的在于对树木的保护,而不在于种了多少树。
As far as he's concerned, it's not doing something wrong that matters, but not being caught doing something wrong, 就他而论,重要的不是做错事,而是做错事不被抓住。
请看两道题:
(1) It is not who is right but what is right _______ is of importance.
A. which B. it C. that D. this
答案为C。此题考查it is…that…这一强调句式,被强调的是not who is right but what is right,全句意为:重要的不是谁是对的,而是什么才是对的。
有时考查not…but…的同义结构…rather than…与强调结构的综合运用。如:
(2) It is what you do rather than what you say _______matters
A. that B. what C. which D. this
答案为A。被强调成分为what you do rather than what you say,全句意为:重要的是看你怎么做,而不是看你怎么说。
(2)、not until 引起的时间状语置于句首时,句子的主谓应部分倒装。由 not until 引导的时间状语从句位于句首时,主句应部分倒装,从句语序不变。如:
Not until 1998 did he return to his hometown.
直到 1998 年他才回到家乡。
Not until Father came back did we begin to have supper last night.
昨晚直到父亲回来,我们才开始吃晚饭。
注意:当 not until 引导的状语或状语从句用于强调句型时,句子的主语不倒装。如将上两句改为强调句应为:
It was not until 1998 that he returned to his hometown.
It was not until Father came back that we began to have supper last night.
It was not until his wife came back that he went to bed.
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