(1) some和any可用于不可数名词及复数可数名词之前。some通常用于肯定句，any通常用于否定句和疑问句中。但在期待得到肯定答复的疑问句中也可以用some，而在肯定句中表示“随便哪个”，“任何一个”的含义时也可以用any：

 These are the only meat pies i have. Do u want some of them?   yes, please. Any meat pies will do.

 

(2) 有些形容词可以用于the之后（决不能用于a /an之后），表示作为整体的群体，如the rich富人 the young 年轻人 the blind瞎子 the deaf 聋子 。这些形容词后要跟复数动词，不可用这些形容词本身来指个体：

This is a special school for the deaf.

如果想指单数个体，则可以说：Sam is a young man with a lot of money.

 

(3) 当下列名词指其“主要目的”，即与其相关的动作时，要用零冠词（即名词前没有冠词），如：He's in bed (他睡了)中bed是为了睡觉用的。这类名词有bed,church,class,college,hospital,market,prison,school,sea,university,work(工作地点)。

The children were at school and my husband was at work.

 

泛指同类事物中的任何一个时则用  a:

i'm going to the airport.我要去机场（周围可能就这一个机场）

Oh, can i come with you?I've never been to an airport before.噢，我能与你一起去吗？我以前从没去过任何机场。

 

cinema与theatre的用法与上面提到的名词的用法有区别。

在表示去看电影、戏时要用 go to the cinema/theatre.

I went to th theatre last night.我昨晚看戏去了。

 

(4) 在形容词/副词的最高级前面要用 the, 但当most表示“大多数”时它前面则不加the.

 Most young men have to work hard.大多数年轻人得努力工作。

 

 

Lesson 54 Sticky fingers 粘糊的手指
After breakfast, I sent the children to school and then I went to the shops. It was still early when I returned home. The children were at school, my husband was at work and the house was quiet. So I decided to make some meat pies. In a short time I was busy mixing butter and flour and my hands were soon covered with sticky pastry. At exactly that moment, the telephone rang. Nothing could have been more annoying. I picked up the receiver between two sticky fingers and was dismayed when I recognized the voice of Helen Bates. It took me ten minutes to persuade her to ring back later. At last I hung up the receiver. What a mess! There was pastry on my fingers, on the telephone, and on the doorknobs. I had no sooner got back to the kitchen than the doorbell rang loud enough to wake the dead. This time it was the postman and he wanted me to sign for a registered letter!

 

 

★finger n 手指

thumb大拇指   index finger食指    middle finger中指   ring finger无名指   little finger小指

toe [tEu] 脚趾