数词用法:数词的基本用法

2023-01-29 07:09:00来源:新东方在线整理

数词的基本用法

(一)基数词的基本用法

1.定语

Fifty thousand London dockers are out on strike.

2.主语

数词作主语,谓语动词用单数。

如: Two months is quite a long time.

Five is an odd number.

3.宾语或介词宾语

How many do you want?——Eight,please.

The city has a population of four million.

4.表语

We are altogether fourteen.

Five plus seven is twelve.

5.同位语

What work are you to assign us three?

Is there room for us two?

6.基数词+单数名词+形容词构成合成形容词。如:一个五岁的男孩a five-year-old boy;一座800米长的桥an 800-metre-long bridge;女子400米接力girls‘400-metre relay race.

7.句型:主语+is +about(大约)/ over =more than(超过)/nearly(接近)+具体数词+metre(s)/kilometre(s)/kilo(s)long / high /tall /deep /away等。如:长江长6300公里。

The Changjiang River is 6,300 kilometres long.

8.表示“……十”的数词的复数形式可以用来表示人的岁数或年代:

He is in his early thirties.

He died still in his forties.

This took place in the 1930s.

(二)序数词的基本用法

1.序数词主要用作定语,前面一般要加定冠词(或物主代词):

Tom is their second son.

They celebrated the 10th anniversary of the founding of the republic.

I will never give up,not even on the 1,000th or 10,000th try.

2.有时前面可以加一个不定冠词来表示“再一”,“又一”这样的意思:

We‘ll have to do it a second time.

Shall I ask him a third time?

When I sat down,a fourth man rose to speak.

3.First,second 等有时可用来表示“第一个人(批)”“第二个人”等:

She was among the first to come and settle in Dujiashan.

You will be the second to speak.

4.如果数字较长,序数词总避免使用,而且读的方法也常常简化:

第201房间:Room 201

第319面:page 319

第一拖拉机厂:the Number I Tractor Works

第六号车厢:Carriage No.6

南京路1490号:1490 Nanjing Road

电话号码55――2347:telephone number :55—2347

5. 在谈编了号的东西时,我们可以用基数词表示顺序:

the first part——part one

the third squad——squad three

the twenty-third section——section twenty-three

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