harm的语法特点与搭配特点
harm的语法特点与搭配特点
1. 用作名词,表示“危害”“害处”,是不可数名词。如:
It would do no harm to ask him. 你问问他没坏处。
注意常用句式 do sb harm或do harm to sb(对某人有危害)。如:
暴风雨给庄稼造成了很大的危害。
正:The storm did the crops a lot of harm.
正:The storm did a lot of harm to the crops.
2. 表示“做某事的害处”,其后通常接in doing sth,不接不定式。如:
What’s the harm in having a little fun? 开点玩笑有什么不好?
He may not be able to help but there’s no harm in asking him. 他可能帮不了忙,但是求他一下倒也无妨。
比较以下同义句,其中第二句中的不定式为主语,注意句首的形式主语:
去问一问他没什么害处。
正:There’s no harm in asking him.
正:It does no harm to ask him.
你同他们去没什么不好。
正:There’s no harm in your going with them.
正:It does no harm for you to go with them.
3. 用于mean no harm,意为“不怀恶意”“不想伤害”。如:
I mean no harm to her. 我对她并无恶意。
I mean you no harm. 我并无伤害你的意思。
He means no harm by saying what he thinks, but people tend to be upset by it. 他想到就说,并无恶意,但人们听了心里总不舒服。
4. 用作动词时,意为“损害”“对……有害”,可用于本义或引申义,通常为及物动词,如:
Doctors say smoking harms our health. 医生说吸烟损害我们的健康。
It has harmed relations between the two countries. 这已损害了两国的关系。
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