英語操場

問：棉花糖，你好！能幫忙解答一下下面這道題嗎？非常感謝！

Never have I seen ___ little fish. There are ___ little fish that I dont know how to give them to all people.

A. such； so B. so； such C. such； such D. so； so

答：本題關鍵是要知道such和so的用法區別，以及little的不同含義和用法。

首先，such和so的意思都是“如此，這樣”。但such后面主要修飾名詞，比如such beautiful girl，such fine day；so后面主要跟形容詞或副詞，雖然它也可以跟名詞，但該名詞必須是單數可數名詞。比如She is so lovely a girl.

其次來看little的含義和用法。Little用作形容詞時，既可表示“（體積）小的”，用于修飾可數名詞單數或復數，比如a little bird、little birds；也可表示“（數量）少的”，只用于修飾不可數名詞，比如little money。

第一個句子中的little是形容詞，意為“小的”，修飾名詞fish，fish在此意為“魚”，是一個復數名詞。根據前面提到的such和so的用法，此時橫線上應該填such，“such little fish”意為“這么小的魚”，句意是“我從來沒有見過這么小的魚”。

第二個句子本身有問題。此句中的fish只有兩種可能：復數名詞fish （魚）或者不可數名詞fish（魚肉）。不論是哪種情況，fish在此句中只可能是因為“數量少”而“讓我不知道如何分給所有人”。那么橫線處所填的詞應為so，修飾表數量少的little。不過若fish是復數名詞，形容其數量少只能用few而不能用little；若fish是不可數名詞，形容其數量少倒是可以用little，但其對應的代詞應是it而不是句中的them。所以這句話是有問題的，正確的表達應為：There are so few fish（魚）that I dont know how to give them to all people./There is so little fish（魚肉）that I dont know how to give it to all people.

As sly as a fox，as strong as an ox

As fast as a hare，as brave as a bear

As free as a bird，as neat as a word

As quiet as a mouse，as big as a house

All I wanna be，all I wanna be

Oh all I wanna be

Is everything

As mean as a wolf，as sharp as a tooth

As deep as a bite，as dark as the night

As sweet as a song，as right as a wrong

As long as a road，as ugly as a toad

As pretty as a picture hanging from a fixture

Strong like a family，strong as I wanna be

Bright as day，as light as play

As hard as nails，as grand as a whale

All I wanna be

Oh all I wanna be，oh all I wanna be

Is everything

Everything at once

Everything at once

Oh oh everything at once

As warm as the sun，as silly as fun

As cool as a tree，as scary as the sea

As hot as fire，cold as ice

Sweet as sugar and everything nice

As old as time，as straight as a line

As royal as a queen，as buzzed as a bee

Stealth as a tiger，smooth as a glide

Pure as a melody，pure as I wanna be

“Everything at Once”是澳大利亞歌手Lenka的第二張專輯“Two”中的歌曲，因其靈動活潑的旋律與Windows 8電腦操作系統敏捷多變的功能相契合而被選為Windows 8廣告歌曲，從而為大眾所知和喜愛。

聽歌時，大家首先會注意到，整首歌反復使用了“as... as ...”結構。這一結構看似簡單，但卻是一個重要的英語句型。該結構的基本用法有兩種，第一種是在兩個as中間加入一個形容詞，表達一種正面襯托的概念，意為“像……一樣……”，例如：He is as clever as that girl. （他像那個女孩一樣聰明。） 第二種是在兩個as中間加入一個副詞，表示“盡可能……”，例如：He went there as quickly as he could. （他盡可能快地趕到了那里。）

其次，這首歌的歌詞中使用的形容詞非常地道，儼然就是一個英語常用形容詞使用指南！很值得我們學習。例如，“As mean as a wolf， as sharp as a tooth/As deep as a bite，as dark as the night”這兩句歌詞就告訴大家，形容狼卑鄙應該用mean，形容牙齒鋒利用sharp最合適，形容咬痕很深用deep最恰當，形容夜色很深用dark最地道。

接下來再看看這句話：All I wanna be is everything at once. 喜歡看英語影視作品的同學常會看到wanna這個詞，與它相似的還有gonna，其實這兩個詞就相當于我們平常說的want to和going to。這兩個詞在非正式場合的口語中很常用，可以使口語顯得更加地道和流暢。但要注意，這兩個詞千萬不要用在寫作中，因為在書面表達中最忌使用口頭語和過于口語化的表達。

最后一起看看這首歌所表達的含義。這首歌的精髓在于副歌“All I wanna be is everything at once”。歌手Lenka在主歌中提到了那么多個“as ... as ...”，又在副歌中唱道：All I wanna be is everything at once，很明顯，整首歌就是想要表達一種像萬物一般自在隨意的感覺。