by bus 这个短语中通常是不用冠词的,但老师说如果 bus 前有修饰语,则可以用冠词,老师举的例子是:
The excited children went to the park by the first bus.
我对此表示怀疑,请专家老师指点!谢谢!
▲贺立民编著《贺氏英语语法全书》(中山大学出版社 2003年2月的1版)P1090:
I'll go by the 9 a.m. train.
How long does it take to travel by the local train from New York to Los Angeles?
▲周贞雄编著《英语基础词汇用法词典》(金盾出版社 2002年6 月第1 版)P132:
We're going by the 9:30 train.
We went to Shanghai by a large ship.
▲Frederick T. Wood 著 English Prepositional Idioms (Rereprinted,1970) P25:
I shall go by (or on) the 10.30 train.
学而优高考网关于一道选择题的讲解很不错:
—Did you gothere by bus or____ foot?
—I wentthere____ the first bus.
A.on,at B.on,by C.by,on D.by,in
此题应选B。容易误选C,错误思路为:由by plane,by bus,by plane,by bike等推出by foot;又因为by bus等不用冠词,所以反过来,用了冠词则不用by,而用on,in等。
此题要选B。介词by表示“乘坐”交通工具要注意:
1.后接交通工具(bus,bike,train等)或与交通工具密切相关的名词(air,water等),在句中主要用作方式状语(有时也用作表语等),注意不用冠词或其它限定词:
Do you go to school by bus or by bike?你上学是乘公共汽车还是骑自行车?
He came here by air,not by train.他是坐飞机来的,不是坐火车来的。
2.若表示交通工具的名词有定语修饰,则可以用冠词:
I'm going by the 9∶30 train.我坐9∶30的火车去。
We went to Shanghai by a large ship.我们乘一艘大船去上海。
3.“步行”或“骑马”,英语用介词on:He came hereon foot (horseback).他是步行(骑马)来的。
4.以下表达与上述用法类似(注意:也不用冠词或其它限定词):
by phone 用电话
by telegram 用电报
by letter 用信件
by express 用快件
by post 用邮寄
by radio 用无线电
谢谢Beachy老师和My153老师提供的素材和有关分析,其实我们老师也是这样分析的,而且我在“英语语法网”上也查到了一篇内容相似的文章,我想请问一下有没有权威语法著作和英语词典上的相关例句,谢谢各位老师!(我再追加20分,求权威例句!)
“英语语法网”《by bike之类短语中可用冠词》一文地址如下:
http://www.yygrammar.com/Article/201105/2260.html
▲They go by (or take) the cars. 他们乘车子去的。(摘自《英汉求解作文文法辨义四用词典》第258页)
▲英国籍英语语法专家 Randolph Quirk 等四人在《英语语法大全》(原名为 A COMPREHENSIVE GRAMMAR OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE)中指出:表示“乘”某种交通工具时,by 后面不带修饰语的名词短语通常不用冠词,但并不是说冠词非去掉不可:
It's easier to go to town by the bus (rather than by the train).(原文见 A COMPREHENSIVE GRAMMAR OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE 的 9.49节)