第五章 动名词
动名词和现在分词的拼法相同，但是动名词属于名词类，现在分词却是当做形容词使用，两者词类不同。
动名词和普通名词的比较
- E.g. Let me buy you a drink.
- Drinking is his only vice.
- 动名词相对于普通名词而言，仍然保留了若干程度的“动作”意味，而且有持续性的暗示。
- I am not afraid of death, but I am scared of dying.
动名词与名词从句的比较
- I really enjoyed teaching English to school children at night.
- -> I really enjoyed that I taught English to school children at night.
- 动名词短语可以视为名词从句的变化。
- 如果主语不能省略的话
- I don't like that John calls my girlfriend day after day.
- I don't like calling my girlfriend day after day. (false)
- 动名词结构接近普通名词
- -> I don't like John's calling my grilfriend day after day.
动名词的被动态 being Ven
- That I was invited here is a great honor.
- 许多人不知道being 怎么用，其实being 这个词，没有任何意思，意义就在于-ing部分。-ing可能是现在分词，表示进行的暗示，或者是动名词，有词类变化的功能
- -> Being invited here is a great honor.
- 这就是动名词被动态的处理方式
- I just took a swim and don't feel like swimming now.
- I resent being called a hypocrite, especially when I'm telling the truth.
- The cats' screaming outside my window every night is getting on my nerves.
- Learning a language is learning all about the culture.
- Mountain-climbing is a very exacting sport.
- In doing magic, the trick lies in diverting your audience.
- The worker objected to being treated like slaves.
- Everyone marveled at Michael Chang's winning the French Open.
- If you don't mind my saying so, I think you are in the wrong.
- He is used to lectures giving he's a teacher.
