一、表示肉体上的痛疼痛
1. 可数性问题:此时可用作可数或不可数名词。如:
This tooth is giving me pain. 这颗牙很疼。
Mary felt a sharp pain in her left arm. 玛丽左臂感到一阵剧烈的疼痛。
Chest pains may be symptomatic of heart disease. 胸痛可能是心脏病的症状。注:由于可用作可数或不可数名词,所以有时在同一语境中用pain, a pain, pains都是可能的。如:
I have pain [a pain, pains] in my back. 我背疼。
2. 修饰语问题:用作不可数名词,可用much, little等修饰;用作可数名词时,可用many, few等修饰。如:
Was it possible to have so much pain that it could no longer hurt? 痛得很厉害以至不再感到疼痛,这种情况可能吗?
After falling from a ladder, he had many physical aches and pains. 从梯子上摔下来以后他感到身上到处都痛。
3. 主谓一致问题:pain用作主语时,谓语肯定用单数,这不是问题;当pains用作主语时,谓语通常用复数。如:
If the pains return phone the doctor. 如果疼痛再发作,打电话给医生。
Her pains are mostly pure imagination. 他的疼痛多半纯粹是想象出来的东西。
但是,有时也可用单数。如:
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