用法靈活的幾個系動詞

王嵩 林鋒

look，sound，feel，taste，smell可用作表示狀態的系動詞。下面談談它們的用法：

一、look作系動詞時的用法

1. 其后接形容詞。如：

They look young. 他們看起來很年輕。

You look well/fine.你看起來很健康。

2. 其后接過去分詞。如：

She looked worried. 她好像很擔心的樣子。

You look tired， you’d better have a rest.你看起來很累，最好休息一下。

3. 其后接like引起的短語。如：

He looks like his father. 他看起來很像他父親。

She looks like a student.她看起來像個學生。

二、sound作系動詞時的用法

1. 其后接形容詞。如：

The music sounds sweet. 這音樂聽起來很悅耳。

It sounded wonderful in Spanish. 它用西班牙語來說聽起來很美妙。

2. 其后接like引起的短語。如：

This sounds like fiction. 這聽上去像虛構的。

It sounds like an advert.這聽起來像廣告詞。

3. 其后接名詞。如：

That sounds a great idea. 那（聽起來）似乎是個好主意。

This plan sounds a good one. 這個計劃聽起來不錯。

三、feel作系動詞時的用法

1. 其后接形容詞。如：

Don’t you feel cold？ 你不覺得冷嗎？

The stone feels smooth.這塊石頭摸起來感覺很光滑。

2. 其后接過去分詞。如：

She felt much worried then. 她當時感到非常擔心。

He felt refreshed and agreeably tired. 他覺得精神振奮，也并不太累。

四、taste，smell作系動詞時，其后要接形容詞作表語。如：

This coffee tastes a little bitter. 這咖啡有點苦。

The soup tastes delicious.湯嘗起來很鮮美。

The flowers smell sweet.這些花芳香襲人。

1.這些系動詞都不能用被動語態，也不能用進行時態。

2.friendly，lonely，lovely，well（作“健康的”講）都是形容詞，而不是副詞，可作系動詞的表語。

隨堂小練習：

1. I like this cotton dress because it nice and soft.

A. feels like B. is feeling C. feels D. is felt

2. —What is mum cooking in the kitchen？

—Chicken， I guess. How nice it ！

A. looks? ? B. smells? ? C. tastes? ? D. sounds

3. In some foreign countries， such as Canada， children usually leave their parents when they grow up. It makes the old feel .

A. alone? ? B. lonely? ? C. frightened? ? D. enjoyable

4. The food on the plate smells . You can’t eat it.

A. delicious? ? B. badly? ? C. well? ? D. bad

5. —You look . What’s wrong？

—My son hurt his leg this morning.

A. happy? ? B. fine? ? C. surprised? ? D. worried

6. Jack younger than Tom.

A. look? ? B. feel C. feels D. looks

7.—Do you like the shirt？

? ?—Yes， it very soft.

A. feels? ? ? B. felt? ? C. is feeling? ? ? D. is felt