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1、商务写作指南:prevent,prohibit和ban的用法WRONG:The Lease doesnotprovideforaperiodoftimeduringwhichthe Tenant ispreventedtouse thePremises.错误用法:租约中并未指明房客不能使用所租房屋的时间界限。RIGHT:TheLeasedoesnotprovideforaperiodoftimeduringwhichtheTenantispreventedfromusing thePremises.正确用法:租约中并未指明房客不能使用所租房屋的时间界
2、限。WRONG:The crew shouldbeprovidedwithtrainingonhowto preventfrom seacontamination.错误用法:船员应该接受关于如何防止海洋污染的培训。RIGHT:Thecrewshouldbeprovidedwithtrainingonhowto prevent seacontamination.正确用法:船员应该接受关于如何防止海洋污染的培训。Althoughtheverb“prevent”takesthe preposition “from”,itcanalsobeusedwithn
3、opreposition.Therulesareasfollows:尽管动词“prevent”可以带介词“from”,它也可以不用介词。规则如下:“prevent”+something“prevent”+某事Thesoldierspreventedthe evacuation.例句:士兵们阻止撤离。“prevent”somebodyfrom+-ing“prevent”某人做某事Thesoldierspreventedthe refugees fromevacuating.例句:士兵们阻止难民们撤离。Theword“prohibit”worksinex
4、actlythesameway:单词“prohibit”的用法和“prevent”基本一致:“prohibit”+something“prohibit”+某事Theschoolrulesprohibitsmoking.例句:学校规定禁止吸烟。“prohibit”somebodyfrom+-ing“prohibit”某人做某事Therearenospecific provisions inthelawthatwouldprohibitanemployerfromsummarily dismissing anemployeeduetohis/her mi
5、sconduct.例句:法律中没有特定的条文禁止雇主在暑假期间因为员工的表现不佳而将其解雇。Theverb“ban”alsoworksinthesameway:动词“ban”也是类似的用法:Thegovernment bannedadvertising of tobacco productsin2002.例句:2002年,政府禁止烟草制品打广告。Thecourt bannedhimfromattending footballmatches.法庭禁止他参加足球比赛。商务写作指南:词组的复数要怎么加?Asyouknow,inEnglishyougener
6、allymakeaword plural byaddingan‘s’attheend.Thereseemstobesome confusion,though,abouthowtomakepluralsoftermsmadeupofmorethanoneword.Forexample,doyousaybicyclesshopsorbicycleshops?Doyousaypowerofattorneysorpowersofattorney?众所周知,在英语中要把一个名词变成复数,只要在这个词的后面加上“s”就行了。不过,当一个名词变成了由几个名词组成的
7、词组时,就让人摸不着头脑了。举个例子,如果你要表示自行车商店的复数形式,你是用“bicyclesshop”还是“bicycleshops”?在表示授权书的复数时,你是说“powerofattorneys”还是“powersofattorney”?Theanswersarebicycleshopsand powersofattorney.正确的说法是“bicycleshops”和“powersofattorney”。Theruleisthatyoupluralisethe“head”oftheterm.名词词组复数变化的规则就是:变“重点词”。Thet
8、ermbicycleshopistypicalofmostnoungroups.The“head”isthe
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