英语六级翻译专项练习:不定式（一）

1) to complete a 24-story building in 10 months

考点：不定式作主语时常用it作形式主语放在句首代替不定式，而将不定式移到谓语后面

2) for us to have a good night’s sleep before the test

考点：有时用“介词for + 代词/名词”来表示不定式的逻辑主语，这时整句的谓语描述的对象是事情，这种情况下谓语中常用的形容词有：necessary, important, possible, impossible, all right, essential等

3) of you to donate so much money to the people in the disaster area

考点：有时用“介词of + 代词/名词”来表示不定式的逻辑主语，这时整句的谓语描述的对象是人，这种情况下谓语中常用的形容词有：absurd, bold, brave, careful, careless, cowardly, cruel, foolish, generous, good, honest, kind, nice, polite, rude, selfish, silly, stupid, thoughtful, thoughtless, wicked, wise, wrong等

4) not to punish those students who had been late for class

考点：1. 用不定式结构作decide的宾语;2.不定式的否定形式是在to前加not

能带不定式作宾语的动词常见的有：afford, agree, ask, attempt, beg, begin, bother, care, choose, claim, consent, decide, demand, desire, dislike, endeavor, expect, fail, fear, forget, happen, hate, help, hesitate, hope, intend, learn, like, love, manage, mean, neglect, offer, plan, pledge, prefer, prepare, pretend, promise, refuse, remember, resolve, start, threaten, undertake, venture, volunteer, vow, want, wish

5) whether to visit their son in France

考点：“疑问词+不定式”作动词wonder的宾语。能以这种结构作宾语的动词通常有ask, consider, decide, discover, explain, forget, guess, know, learn, observe, remember, see, tell, understand, wonder等

6) warned me just now not to water flowers at noon

考点：不定式作宾语补语

7) invited him to give us a lecture on modern art

考点：同上

(能带不定式结构作宾语补语的动词有advise, allow, ask, beg, cause, challenge, command, compel, enable, determine, encourage, expect, feel, find, force, get, hate, have, hear, help, inform invite, let, like, make, mean, need, notice, notify, oblige, order, permit, persuade, remind, request, require, see, send, teach, tell, tempt, trouble, urge, want, warn, watch, wish等。注：划线的动词后面的不定式不带to)

8) to be the chairman of students’ union in so large a university

考点：动词 + it + 形容词/名词 + 不定式。it是形式宾语，不定式是真正宾语

9) to apply what we have learned in class to practice

考点：不定式作定语

不定式常用作以下名词/代词的定语：ability, ambition, anything, attempt, capability, chance, curiosity, desire, decision, determination, effort, failure,intention,need, nothing, opportunity, place, plan, promise, reason, right, something, tendency, time, way, wish等

10) ruined our plan to show the film in the open air