现代英语用法词典

以下是我为大家整理的imagine的用法，希望能帮助大家更好地掌握imagine这个单词，提高英语水平。

1. imagine 是及物动词，后面可跟名词，代词，动名词和从句作宾语。例如：

He is eighty-four years old and yesterday the Department of Education gave him a medal for having completed sixty years of teaching. Sixty years! Can you imagine it?(高二册，第一页)

You may imagine their astonishment at finding the room empty.

We never imagined that John would become a doctor.

我们从来没有想象过，约翰居然会成为一个医生。

I can’t imagine what was happened.

Imagine his surprise when he found that his beard was a foot longer than it had been before!

可以想象一下，他发现他的胡子比以前长了一尺时该多么吃惊啊!

我无法想象出了什么事。

You can’t imagine how I missed the bird.

2. Imagine 后跟动词时，动词须用动名词的形式。如：

Try to imagine being on the moon.

设想一下在月球上的情形。

I can’t imagine lying like that. I would go crazy.

She imagined walking into the office and telling everyone what she thought of them.

他想象着自己走进办公室并告诉每个人她对他们有何看法这样一幅情景。

在下面一句中，动名词前面出现了逻辑主语：

Would you ever have imagined him/his becoming a politician?

你想到过他会成为一个政治家吗?

Can you imagine me my being so stupid?

你以为我如此愚蠢吗?

3. imagine后面还可以跟复合宾语，如：

1)imagine+名词/代词+名词

The boy likes to imagine himself a flyer.

那孩子喜欢想象自己是个飞行员。

2)imagine+名词/代词+介词 短语

Imagine yourself in his place.

3)imagine+名词/代词+形容词

Imagine yourself rich and famous.

设想一下你自己既有钱又有名的情形。

4) imagine+名词/代词+分词

He imagined himself lying summer evening, buried deep among the weeds beneath the tree.

她想象自己在一个夏季的夜晚，躺在树下深密的草丛中。

Can you imagine George cooking the dinner?

你能想象乔治做饭的样子吗?

在上一例中，《朗文现代英汉双解词典》是把cooking作为宾语补足语的。即同于下例中的cooking：

He watched mother cooking the dinner.

但是，它与下例中的sailing在功能上又有什么不同之处呢?

I can hardly imagine Peter/Peter’s sailing across the Atlantic Ocean in five days.

在这里，sailing是动名词，为什么在上面的 句子 中却是分词呢?这一点对学生们来说并不十分重要，但语法学者尚须做出明确的答复。

imagine后可以用不定式作宾语补足语，当笔者认为这里的不定式似乎一般只是to be。这从下面的例子中可以得到初步证实。

Imagine yourself (to be) rich and famous. (《朗文现代英语双解词典》)

Our producers should constantly imagine themselves to be in the consumer’s position.

我们的生产单位要经常设身处地地为用户着想。(《新英汉词典》)

Imagine yourself (to be) in his place. (《现代英语用法词典》)

本文开头提到打那篇 文章 的作者只引用了一个例证：

Don’t imagine yourself to be always correct. (《英语常用动词用法词典》)

而这个例子中，作宾语补足语的不定式还是to be。由此可知，高考题中的答案自然是C,B和D不应是正确答案。

4. imagine 后跟带有as的宾语补足语

前面我们叙述了imagine后跟复合宾语的各种情形。但是，在有些宾语补足语前也可以用as。如：

I had imagined you as a big tall man.

我原以为你是一个高大个儿。

He imagine himself as the saviour of his country.

他把自己想象成为国家的救星。

I imagined him as being older

5. imagine 一般不用于进行时，但《现代英语用法词典》中却出现了下面的句子：

He’s always imagining dangers that don’t exist.

他总是想象一些并不存在的危险。

语法书嘛，都是大同小异，换个出版社，是因为A出版社赚了钱，B也想赚，就重新出版一下，借张道真的名气呗，我们的一些专业课的一些教材就是用的这个老头的。

provide可以搭配in吗？provide（“提供”语义时的）的四种搭配：provide sb with sth；provide sth (for/to) sb我们知道provide在作及物动词“提供、供给、供应、装备”的含义时，后接名词或代词作宾语；还可接双宾语，常使用介词for来引出间接宾语，当然也可以用介词with引出直接宾语；有时候其中的介词with亦可省略。相应的搭配常见的有：provide sb with sth和provide sth for sb, 但我们也见到了有以下两种搭配：provide sth to sb和provide sb sth。我们看看词典例句（9处例证）。例证1：《英语搭配大辞典》（王文昌主编）第1329页provide词条provide money to him (= provide him with money)例证2：《文馨当代英汉词典》第1452页provide词条1：The company will provide us food and drink.（美）公司将供给我们食物和饮料。例证3：《韦氏高阶英语词典》第1301页provide词条The goal is to provide health care to/for as many people as possible.例证4：《柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典》第77页alternative词条New ways to treat arthritis may provide an alternative topainkillers.关节炎的新疗法可能是止痛药之外的另一种选择。例证：《外文社英汉多功能词典》（第2版）第852页provide词条（1）provide用做及物动词时，可表示“提供，供给，供应”，后可接名词或代词作简单宾语；还可接双宾语，常用介词for，to引出间接宾语，也可用介词with引出直接宾语，有时with可省略。例证6：《现代英语用法词典》（修订版 张道真主编）第1147页provide词条provide提供，给准备(vt.)Mrs. Bracebridge provided her a dainty cap and apron.The law provided them no other way of getting a living.例证7：《英汉多功能学习词典》第1167页provide词条provide A with B/provide B for [to] A向A（人，物）供应（提供）B（事物）The government should provide the victims with adequate houses.= The government should provide adequate houses for the victims.政府应该向受灾者提供足够的住房。Chickens provide us with eggs. 鸡提供给我们鸡蛋。（[美]亦说Chickens provide us eggs.）例证8：《葛传槼英语惯用法词典》第464页provide词条

also ad. 1. 也,亦;还 John is also 19 years old. 约翰也是十九岁。 2. 同样地 Since you've accepted the invitation, I'll also accept it. 既然你已接受邀请,那我也接受邀请。 conj. 1. 又;并且 Also, he has gone abroad. 再者,他已去了国外。 ▲also用于实义动词之前 They also agree with me. 他们也同意我的看法。 I also began to be interested in crickets. 我也开始对板球运动感到兴趣。 ▲also用于be动词之后 I was also there. 我也在那儿。 He is also an American. 他也是美国人。 also用于第一个助动词之后 ▲also用于第一个助动词之后 His sister has also gone to town. 他的妹妹也到镇里去了。 The leisure center has also proved uneconomic. 休闲中心业已证明利润不大。 also有时放在句首 ▲also有时放在句子的最前 Also, some students were tempted to add written comment of their own throughout the paper. 一些学生也冒险通过论文写出他们自己的评论。 I thought it was the perfect answer. Also, Tony and I had never done a historical subject. 我认为它是完美的答案。而且，托尼和我从没有作过历史科目。 also不能放在句末 ▲注意：also一定不能放在句子的最后。 参见：《柯林斯COBUILD英语用法词典》 <><><> 但是 赵振才教授在他的《英语常见问题解答大词典》中列举了美国英语关于also放在句末的例子。 I must buy some bread also. 我还必须买一些面包。 They know him and I know him also. 参见：赵振才《英语常见问题解答大词典》 <><><> The son had gone also. 儿子也走了。 参见：张道真《现代英语用法词典》 <><><> 新诺亚英语网建议： 学生只要在阅读是不要少见多怪就好了，自己的作文中最好不要这样表达，以求保险。 too用于句子的最后 ▲too用于句子的最后，可以有逗号，也可以没有逗号 "I'm feeling hungry." "Me too." “我饿了。”“我也是。” He's coming along too. 他也要来。 I have been to New York, too. 我也到过纽约。 She plays the piano, and sings, too. 她会弹钢琴, 也会唱歌。 too放在所指向的单词之后 ▲too可以直接放在所指向的单词之后。 I wondered whether I too would become one of its victims. 我想我是否也会成为它的受害者之一。 We, too, are going away. 我们也要离开。 She, too, comes from Scotland. 她也是来自苏格兰。 too不能放在be动词之后 ▲注意：too不能放在be动词之后，不能放在助动词之后，也不能放在句子的最前面。 <><><> 注意（一）：这里的too不是“也”的意思。 真正地；这样地：（indeed; so） You will too do it! 你真的要做这件事情！ <><><> 注意（二）： 我国英语学界泰斗葛传槼在他的《英语惯用法》举了两个例子： Too, your plan will save a lot of money. You will go to the lecture, too, I shall go. also,too,as well用于肯定句 在绝大多数的情况下，also, too, as well 只能用于肯定句。 <><><> 但是，葛传槼在他的《英语惯用法》举了以下的例子： （可以说）He did not come, and she also did not come. （不能说）He did not come, and she did not come also.