新概念英语第二册第5课
Mr.James Scott has a garage in Silbury and now he has just bought another garage in Pinhurst. Pinhurst is only five miles from Silbury, but Mr. Scott cannot get a telephone for his new garage, so he has just bought twelve pigeons. Yesterday, a pigeon carried the first message from Pinhurst to Silbury. The bird covered the distance in three minutes. Up to now, Mr.Scott has sent a great many requests for spare parts and other urgent messages from one garage to the other. In this way, he has begun his own private 'telephone' service.
我们知道:another 两个以上中的另一个;the other 总共两个中的另一个。
Q1:第一个 another 的意思是 Mr.James Scott 买之前有两个以上汽车修理厂,还是买之后有两个以上汽车修理厂?
Q2:既然 Mr.James Scott 有两个以上的汽车修理厂但为什么后面是 from one garage to the other.为何用the other 而用不another呢?
这里的another表示不定数目的“又一个;再一个;另一个”,相当于a second。
Would you like another orange? 你还想要个橘子吗?
She's going to have another baby. 她又快有孩子了.
▲费致德《现代英语惯用法词典》有如下说明:
【注意】不定数目中的另一个说another;两件东西中的另一个说the other。
三个人、物说one, another (or a second), the third (or the other)。
四个人、物说one, another, a third, the fourth (or the other).余类推。
▲如果不是列举具体的三个、四个、或五个,而是列举任意的不定数目,情况则不同。2008年版外研社《英汉多功能词典》指出:
“在任意列举单数名词时,接连使用one, another, another等,最后如果还剩一个用the other,还剩多个用the others”。
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