网友的这个句子来自国内英语六级考试作文,出自中国学生笔下。
https://wenku.baidu.com/view/eb2d9e3ff46527d3250ce009.html
完整的句子为:
Among college students, the influence of western lifestyle is especially strong--the young are either not interested or even have no timeto care for our own culture, let alone the language.
该句至少有三处错误。
1 红色部分为对前面部分的补充,该句的话题是college students,用the young替代大学生是错误的。the young=the young people, 指所有年轻人,而不仅仅是大学生。应该用人称代词they指代大学生。
2 be not interested in sth 和 have no time to do sth不是对等的结构,不宜用either...or...连接。
3 作者本想让be not interested 和 have no time共用不定式to care for...。但实际上,to care for接在二个谓语后都是错误的。
be interested不是不可以后接不定式,但后接不定式意为want to get more information about sth的意思,不定式通常为to learn/hear/know之类表示获取信息的动词。不能接care for.
have (no) time to do sth 没有时间做某事,这结构中不定式必须是动态动词表示事件意义。不可以后接静态动词的不定式。而短语动词care for表示“照顾、照料”意义时,为动态动词;表示“热爱、喜欢、想要”意义时为静态动词。该句中to care for的宾语为our own culture. 显然不是照料的意思,而是喜欢、热爱的意思,为静态意义。所以本句不定式to care for our own culture作定语修饰time也是错误的。
本句可做如下修改,以避免上述错误。
Among college students, the influence of western lifestyle is especially strong--they are not interested in our own culture or have no time to learn about it, let alone the language.
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