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why to do

《英美语惯用法词典》(福建教育出版社,1995,p.684)说:“不定式不能与why连用,应改为why-分句:

× I don't know why to do it.

I don't know why I should do it."

果真是这样吗?

事实并非如此。请看摘自英语原著的实例:

I'm wondering why to go at all. [“... why I should go at all.”] (CGEL) 我在捉摸到底为什么要去。

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