(七)the+形容词/分词形容词
1. 表示一类人或一类事物时,采用语法一致原则,谓语动词用复数形式。
例句: In an odd way, however, it is the educated who have claimed to have given up an ambition as an ideal. (选自2000年Text 5)
分析: 该句是复合句,同时又是一个强调句型。其中the educated指受过教育的人,有教养的人。
译文: 然而,令人奇怪的是,正是那些受过良好教育的人宣布他们已不再把抱负当做理想。
例句: As a nurse, she has a responsibility to attend to the sick, who have no homes, no relatives here.
分析: 该句是复合句,who have no homes, no relatives here是修饰the sick的定语从句。
译文: 作为一名护士,她有责任和义务来照看那些医院里没有家也没有亲人的病人。
2. 指抽象概念时,谓语动词用单数形式。
例句: It is the true, the good and the beautiful that places a restriction on our behaviors.
分析: 该句是复合句,又是强调句型。
译文: 正是真善美对我们的言行起着约束作用。
3. the+某些个别分词形容词,如deceased, accused, 不表一类人而是指个人,谓语动词用单数。
例句: The deceased killed in the traffic accident has been taken away from the spot, at the same time, the accused causing the accident has been taken to the court.
分析: 该句是并列句,其中分词killed和causing the accident在句中分别修饰the deceased (死者)与the accused(被指控者)。
译文: 交通事故中的遇难者已被抬离现场,与此同时,导致这起交通事故的被指控者也被带到法庭。
(八)定语从句中主谓一致
,谓语动词也用相应的单数或复数形式。
例句: Meanwhile, the theft of information about some 40 million credit card accounts in American, disclosed on June 17th, overshadowed a hugely important decision a day earlier by Americas Federal mission(FTC) that puts corporate America on notice that regulators will act if firms fail to provide adequate data security.
(选自2007年Text 4)
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