G:It’s so great seeing you guys again.
C:Yeah.
B:I agree.
C:I can’t believe it’s been twenty years since we were all in college together.
G:Yeah, you know, that’s my best memory. That peace demonstration. (Yeah) You know, somehow getting arrested for something you believe in isn’t … isn’t scary at all.
C:No, it isn’t at all.
B:You’re right.
C:But it did help that there were five hundred other students getting arrested along with us.
B:That was a great day, though.
G:Hey, hey, you all remember our last day of college?
B:What, you mean graduation?
C:Graduation, what’s to remember? None of you went to graduation. I didn’t go.
what’s to remember? 查阅了一些资料,有表示“计划”、“安排”、“义务”、“应该”、“可能”、命运”等,还有一种表示,不定式做表语,表示主语和表语在概念上是等同的。那么,如何理解的be to do结构用法。
我在网上查了一下,这是新编大学英语(第三版浙江大学编著)4视听说教程原文Unit 7的对话内容。我的语法知识告诉我这个问句是个语法错误,应该修改如下:
Graduation, what’s to remember? 错误
Graduation, what’s for you to remember? 正确
Graduation, what's to be remembered? 正确
Graduation, what's there to remember? 正确
Graduation, what's there to be remembered? 正确
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曹老师可能因为手头资料有限,没有注意到这种用法。What's to remember? 是口语里经常用的一种说法,相当于what's there to remember? 根据语境可以有不同的意思,如:有什么可回忆呢?要记住什么?等含义。可以看作是What's +不定式的用法。如:What's to forget? What's to say? 等。这里不定式一般不用被动形式,有一个习语例外:What's to be done?(怎么办?)
请看外刊例句:
1. “What's to remember? They built tall buildings and then they let em take a bath, what's to brag for?”
2. Then Rob laughed and said, 'What's to remember? Girl gets drunk, girl says things she doesn't mean, girl goes home with head in bag.
3. “Life was very hard; what's to remember?” they have said to me in unison.
4. "What's to remember?" "Well, for example you wore diapers until you were six."
5. 'What's to forget? As a man you're so very forgettable.'
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