关于 goods 能不能受 many 修饰的补充：

▲黎老师引用《外研社英汉多功能词典》，goods 不可以受 many 的修饰。曾老师引用《简明英汉词典》可以使用 many goods。《外研社英汉多功能词典》和《简明英汉词典》都是比较受欢迎的英汉词典，但两者观点有所出入。我试图在英美人编写的材料查了一下，看看是否有比较权威的用法说明或例句。

▲首先我查了一下BNC（英国国家语料库），查到了一些相关用法：

1. The Angolan government, increasingly looking to free market policiesto revive the economy, last month joined the International Monetary Fund in Washington, and says, as it has for the past three years,that a devaluation of the Kwanza and thelifting of controls on many goods isimminent.

2. The increase in oil prices combined with the 1979 June budget'sincrease from 8 to 15 per cent in VAT on manygoods and high wage rises helped to push inflation up to 21 per cent in May1980.

3. But two budgets — 1979, which included a doubling of the standardrate of VAT on many goods andservices and 1981, which was severely deflationary at a time when over twomillion were out of work — shocked a number of Cabinet ministers.

4. In exchange, many goodscame into the country — some of them never seen in Britain before.

5. Many goods no longereven reach high street shelves as retailers sell merchandise direct to theblack market.

6. That is bad for business, particularly when Iran is desperate to import so many goods because of the war.

7. In round terms the Greeks buy three times as many goods from the outside world as they manage to sell to it.

8. The shortage of many goodsfor which high wartime wages had been saved sent prices soaring.

9. The MOH has also lost control of financial administration, asdonors now procure and provide manygoods and services.

10. Moreover, for many goods,competition is localized due to the spatial nature of retailing.

11. It is obvious that the government is supplying too many goods and services.

12. There are many goodswhich are partly non-rivalrous in consumption.

13. While pure public goods are hard to find, there are many goods with a considerable publicgoods element: they yield external benefits from which it is costly to excludepeople and are, to a degree, non-rivalrous in consumption.

14. Since then Washingtonhas revoked the tariff-free entry of manygoods from the Little Tigers and forced revaluations of both the SouthKorean and Taiwanese currencies.

15. However, we did not have the very high rates on many goods such as television sets, whichare described as luxury goods but are essentials for many people — rates whichwe inherited and which I understand that the Labour party would consider again.

16.Upon taking office in November Zolotas immediately introducedprice increases for many goods andservices [see p. 37051].

17. Prices in Russiarose between threefold and 30-fold, but manygoods were still only available at private markets.

18. Linking the Midlands manufacturers to Londonby canal undoubtedly assisted the sending of goods to the capital, butconversely the canals which linked them to other major ports sometimes removedtheir need to send as many goodsthrough London.

19. It is not really a cost of living index since many goods of a luxury nature areincluded and several items (e.g. income tax, insurance premiums, etc.) forwhich it is hard to identify ‘units’ of sale are excluded.

20. The actual and planned measurements will differ if total outputshould fall short of or exceed total demand — in the former case, some demandwill be unsatisfied because insufficient goods have been produced; in thelatter case, some net addition to stocks will occur since too many goods have been produced.

21. Many goods that wepurchase are imported, and everywhere we read that industrialists are strivingto increase exports.

▲当然语料库的东西只能作参考，不一定可靠。因为语料库的材料只表明英美人确实在这样用，但是否得到语言学家的认可，就还要看一些权威的语法书或词典是否有收录（即使有英美人在使用，如果没有得到学术界的认可也不一定是规范的用法，就好比在中国，人们常说“他很阳光”“他很男人”“她很淑女”等，但严格说来，这些都是病句，因为“阳光”“男人”“淑女”都名词）。

我根据手头的一些资料搜索了一下（这些资料是我们在平时的编稿中引自各大英美词典和语法著作的例句），还真找到了几个 many goods 的例子：

Many goods were taxed at 17.5%. 许多商品按17.5% 的税率征税。（《牛津英语搭配词典》p.1575）

We never used to import so many goods. 我们过去从来没有进口过这么多货物。（《朗文英语语法》第7.40节）

There are restrictions on how many goods you can bring into thecountry. 可以带入境的商品数量是有限制的。（《剑桥中阶英汉双解词典》p.858）