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Amount, Deal, Quantity,
Number
等词的用法辨析
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有关
quantity
的主
谓一致
一、
amount
的用法详解
1.
amount
用作名词
其意为“数量
”
、
“金额”等，通常用于
a (great, large) amount of
这
类结构，其后通常接不
可数名词。如：
He made a large amount of money.
他赚了大量的钱。
They
have to process a large amount of data.
他们得处理大量数据。
I had
not expected such an amount of praise.
我没料到受到这么多赞扬。
A
large amount of damage was done in a short time.
短期内造成大量损害。
I had
not expected such an amount of praise.
我没料想受到这样多的赞扬。
He
must memorize large amounts of material.
他必须背熟大量材料。
注意：这类结构用作主语，其谓语的数取决于
amount
的数。如：
在这座桥上花了大量资金。
正
: A large amount of money
was spent on the bridge.
正
:
Large amounts of money were spent on the bridge.
比较：在
a great
number of
之后通常接可数名词
(
< br>用复数
)
。如：
2.
amount
用作动词
用作动词时意
为“合计”
、
“等于”
、
“意味着”
，通常是不及物动词，其后常接介词
to
。如：
Building cost amounts to six million
dollars.
建筑费用达
600
万元。
Her reply
amounts to a refusal.
她的回答等于拒绝。
注意：由于其后
接的
to
为介词，所以后接动词时，该动词要用动名词。如：<
/p>
这等于是欺骗老师。
(from )
误：
This amounts to cheat the
teacher.
正：
This amounts to
cheating the teacher.
析：
amount
用作动词，表示“
等于”
，是不及物动词，其后接的
to
为介词。
二、
a great/good many
< br>非常多，许多
(
形容词
)
The young couple has travelled a great
many cities since they got married.
A
great many college students were sent to the West
to help the children there.
Helen has a
great many friends indeed, but she does not think
she has any she can confide in.
The
city
was
even
equipped
with
a
drainage
system,
for
a
great
many
clay
pipes
were
found
beneath the narrow streets.
He has extracted a great many examples
from the grammar book.
比较：
1. many a...
许多
(<
/p>
后接单数动词
)
Many a
teacher has come to the exhibition.
Many a woman has great influence on her
husband.
He beguiled us with many a
tale of adventure.
2. a lot, lots of, a
number of
与
a
great many / a good many
意义相同。
三、
a great deal
大量地，非常多的
1
、作副词
The old woman's life is a great deal
better now.
2
、作代词
1. We have learnt a great deal from our
professor.
2. I have accomplished a
great deal in the last few months.
3.
We waited for their decision with a great deal of
apprehension.
2
、作名词
(
不可数
)
1. People
spend a great deal of money on National Day.
2. He drinks a great deal of water
every day.
3. He offered me a great
deal of money.
4. Keeping the house
really meant a good deal to me.
3
、比较：
a lot of,
lots of
也表示“非常多”
，但它既可接可数名词，也
可接不可数名词。
There is a lot of
rain here in summer.
There are lots of
tourists in Beijing every year.
A
glossy magazine has lots of pictures of
fashionable clothes and is printed on good quality
paper.
He is a bold thinker, with lots
of original ideas.
4
、比较
：
a big deal
重要人物
[a subject,
situation, or event which people think is
important. ]
1)I don't know why this
issue has become such a big deal.
2)Losing the match was no big deal.
3)All I said was, I'm going to have a
baby - what's the big deal?
4)Yes, it's
his birthday today, but he doesn't want to make a
big deal of it. (= make people notice it
by having a special celebration)
四、
a handful of
一把
，少量
(
作为量词
)
1. She scooped up a handful of snow and
rolled it into a ball.
2. Only a
handful people agree with him, it is a foolis
risk.
3. We invited twenty people, but
only a handful of them came.
4.I picked
up a handful of letters and began to open them.
比较：
同义词组有：
a small amount of , a
small number of
A cap or tube
containing a small amount of explosive used to
detonate the main explosive charge
of a
firearm or mine.
At this school, only
ten people passed the music examination this year.
That may seem a small
number but
it's(about) par for the course.
四、
a kind of
有点儿，几分，一种
An
apple is a kind of fruit.
Money is a
kind of allurement for us.
I have a
kind of feeling this might happen.
(
隐约觉得）
I have a
kind of suspicion that she told a lie.
(
有点儿）
比较：
1. all kinds
of / all sorts of
各种各样的
Donations came from all kinds of
people.
All kinds of remarkable thigns
began to happen.