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doubt whether/if/that

I have no doubt ____ he will overcome all his difficulties. A. whether B. that C. if D. as to

我认为选ABC都是正确的。不知对否?

此题只能选 B,but that 6^{6} (doubt but that)

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without doubt

Religious faith without doubt is a comfort to many people. 看不出介词短语是作 faith 的定语, 还是作 is 的状语。

在无上下文的情况下,这个句子可以作两种分析,因而 without doubt 也具有两种含义。

(a) 虔诚的宗教信仰对于许多人是一种安慰。(把 without doubt 分析为定语)

(b) 宗教信仰对于许多人无疑是一种安慰。(把 without doubt 分析为状语)

这里应当补充指出, without doubt 作状语时, 其位置是比较灵活的。

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doubt/suspect

doubtsuspect 都作“怀疑”解。我总是搞不清它们之间的差别。《英语常用同义词详解》(世界图书出版公司, p. 119) 对它们作了如下的辨析:“如指事物, doubt 是疑其无, suspect 是疑其有。”

照此说法, suspect evidence 应是指“认为有证据”, suspect one's motives 应是指“认为有动机”。是这样吗?

为了搞清 doubtsuspect 之间的语义差别,最好是先搞清汉语“怀疑”的真实含义。汉语的“怀疑”有两个对立的含义:A. “不大相信”,例如“他的话叫人怀疑”。B. “猜想”“认为”,例如“我怀疑他是个骗子”。

英语的 doubt 只用于上面的第一种含义(不大相信), 而 suspect 可用于上面的两种含义。请对比下列实例:

  1. Do you doubt my word? 你怀疑我的话吗?(你以为我在说谎吗?)

  2. I doubt if he will come. 我怀疑他会来(我看他不一定来了)。

  3. I doubt that she will get the job. (=I don't think she will.) 我怀疑(不大相信)她会得到那个职位。

  4. I suspect his motives. (第一种含义: If you suspect something, you doubt that it can be trusted or that it is reliable.) 我怀疑他的动机。

  5. I suspect the truth of her statement. (第一种含义) 我对她那番话的真实性表示怀疑。(我不大相信她的话是真的。)

  6. I suspect it to be a lie. (第二种含义: If you suspect something, you think that it is likely or is probably true.) 我怀疑那是谎言(我认为那是谎言)。

  7. John wasn't at college today—I suspect that he's ill. (第二种含义) 约翰今天没上课——我猜他是病了。

  8. We suspect they'll be a little late. (第二种含义) 我们认为他们会晚来一会儿。指出下面译文中的错误并改正过来:

No one suspected that there might be someone else on the farm who had never been seen. This was indeed the case. (NCE, 3, p. 78)

[原译]没有人怀疑,农场中还可能有一个未露过面的人。情况也确实如此。(《新概念英语》,朗文出版公司、世界图书出版公司版,p.135)

练习
  1. She ____ that it was a trick to get her involved in the matter, for she knew them too well.

    1. A

      doubted

    2. B

      suspected

    3. C

      conceived

    4. D

      convinced

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1. Without a doubt these theories were all wrong. (Mis) 毫无疑问,这些理论全都是错误的。

说明
  1. Without a doubt these theories were all wrong. (Mis) 毫无疑问,这些理论全都是错误的。

  2. Don't worry; he'll come back without doubt. (ALD) 不要担心,他一定会回来的。

  3. They will, without doubt, in future carry on the underground movement elsewhere. (Macaulay) 在将来他们无疑会在其他地方进行地下运动。

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