问
She was an excellent student whose teachers encouraged her reading and writing. (Hillary, Living History) 我在英语词典只查到 encourage sb. to do 的用法,而没有查到 encourage sb. doing 的用法。请问希拉里上面的句子是否有笔误?
答
英语里有 encourage sb. to do sth. 的用法,也有 encourage doing 的用法。如果在 doing 之 at the end/in the end 前加上物主代词形式的逻辑主语也是正确的,例如: Who encouraged his taking drugs? 谁怂恿他吸毒？ 在你所援引的希拉里的句子里，her 是物主代词，而不是人称代词的宾格。如果我们把句子主语 She 改成 He，而把 her 改成 his，就可很容易地看出这一点。 由此看来，希拉里在这里并没有用错句型。 at the end/in the end 见 in(in the end) in the end/at the end 见 in(in the end) in the end/finally 见 finally from beginning to end 见 from beginning to end