■当两个带 to 不定式由 and 或 or 连接时,第二个不定式符号常可省略。例如:
I intend to call on him and discuss this question again.
Christina hardly knew whether to laugh or cry.
She asked me to telephone or wire to her on Monday.
■若两个并列的带不定式有对比含义,第二个不定式符号便不能省略。例如:
To be or not to be, that is the question. 存在还是毁灭,是个要考虑的问题。
I haven't decided to go home or to stay at school this summer .
■不用并列连词的情况下,第二个不定式符号也不能省略。例如:
Please go to the seaside to swim, to get suntanned.
He likes to stay with the peasants, to work in the fields with them.
■当三个或三个以上带不定式构成排比结构时,所有的不定式符号均须保留。例如:
Read not to contradict or confute; nor to believe and take for granted; not to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider.
(以上摘自《新编高级英语语法》,章振邦主编,上海外语教育出版社2012年12月第1版)
两个并列的不定式,无论是用并列连词 and 连接还是用并列连词 or 连接,第二个不定式前的 to 均可省略。如:
He told me to stay there and wait him. 他叫我在那儿等他。
I'm really puzzled what to think or say. 我真不知该怎么想怎么说。
Which would you prefer:To win a million pounds or (to) have a brain like Einstein’s? 你喜欢哪一样:赢得100万英镑还是有一个爱因斯坦的头脑?