詞彙精選:cannot help的用法和辨析
一、詳細釋義:
phr.
不得不,忍不住
例句:
I cannot help admiring his courage.|| I cannot but admire his courage.
我對於他的勇氣不勝佩服。
例句:
The joke is so interesting that you cannot help laughing after listening to it.
那個笑話太有趣了,聽了真叫人忍俊不禁。
二、詞義辨析:
cannot help,cannot but,cannot help but
這些詞組均表示“不得不,不禁”之意。cannot help與動名詞連用,表示“不得不”是口語用法,詞組中的help相當於avoid或prevent,是一種比較好的用法。cannot but後跟不定式連用,是一種較正式的用法,主要用於美國英語。cannot help but跟動詞不定式連用,是cannot but與cannot help的混用,系書面用語,多用於美國英語。由於cannot help but含有雙重否定,所以有人反對使用,認為不合習慣,但此表達法已經沿用下來。
三、參考例句:
You cannot help but respect them.
你不得不尊敬他們。
We cannot help but admire his courage.
我們情不自禁地欽佩他的勇氣。
If you cannot help worrying, then remember worrying cannot help you either.
庸人自擾,無濟於事。
I cannot help worrying to hear that there is no steamer this week.
我聽到本週沒有船的消息,禁不住擔憂起來。
One cannot help being old, but one can resist being aged.
一個人無法不變老,但是他可以抵制衰朽。
If we want to live a peaceful and democratic life, we cannot help object to war.
如果我們要過和平與民主的生活, 一定要反對戰爭。
The joke is so interesting that you cannot help laughing after listening to it.
那個笑話太有趣了,聽了真叫人忍俊不禁。
I cannot help admiring his courage.|| I cannot but admire his courage.
我對於他的勇氣不勝佩服。
Their slang for someone who tells a joke so badly, that is so unfunny you cannot help but laugh out loud.
當有不善於講笑話的人講了個一點也不好笑的事情,而你卻又不得哈哈大笑時,就可以用這個當地俚語來形容。
Since I arrived in the United Kingdom, the birthplace of the World Wide Web, I cannot help recalling a touching moment at the opening ceremony of the 2012 London Olympic Games.
來到英國這個“www”發明者的故鄉,讓我不禁想起2012年倫敦奧運會開幕式上動人的一幕。