※ 引述《dunchee (---)》之铭言： : 这篇文主要是关於下列这句子的usage : "I spent one hundred dollars to buy this skirt." : NOTE: 就像中文是我们的母语，我们看到一个中文句子时，会针对这个特定句子的内 : 容去理解，而不是用「句型」去想。这句子也是一样。换了字的话（比如 : ... spent money to help people ...)，那麽这些英文母语的人会有不同的解释/ : （意思）理解(*1) : 这是多年前遇到的一个问题。刚刚好奇之下我用Google Books找了一下: : books.google.com 用下列 patterns (含前後双引号)搜寻: : "I spent money to buy" : 显示10笔，但是有效/能肯定的实际例子趋於 0 : "spent money to buy" : 显示848笔。只列出8页，但是实际只有2页，约12笔。 : 有效/能肯定的实际例子趋於 0 : "I spent * dollars to buy" : 显示三比，有效例子趋於 0 : "I spent * to buy" : 显示4笔，有效例子趋於 0 : "spend * to buy" : 显示133,000笔但是只有三页。有效的实际例子约只有 1 笔 : (重复的书) : 看样子这结果倒也符合我多年前问的结果(*1) -- 不是普遍的说法。台湾一般的情况 : 是过份把注意力放在「对」「错」上头。「对」不代表绝对不会有任何的问题。一个 : 很好的例子。台湾现在有很多外籍人士。相信大家有听过外籍人士讲「听起来怪怪」 : 的中文的经验。这些「怪怪」的中文里头我相信也会有这情况：「完全符合中文文法」 : 或是「还是可以听懂，只是『我们一般不这样子讲』」。所以老师们是要推广这种自行 : 生出的英语人士听起来「可能」会觉得怪怪的或是理解成其它意思的句子？ (我还要再 : 强调一点。问题不是在於 spend 後头能不能出现to Verb的这「通用句型」，而是 : spend和to buy 一起用的时候会出现的问题(... spend/spent ..(money)... to buy : ....) : (*1) 剩下的说明 / 问来自英、美、南非等国的英文母语人士的回应: : https://dunchee.blogspot.com/2009/07/i-spent-money-to-buy-something.html 1. The government spent a lot of time to help make this land better. 2. He spent great efforts to help me. 3. You don't have to spend a lot to be fashionable. 4. The company spends a large sum of money to make advertisements every year. 5. If we save our natural resources, we will have to spend a lot of money to find something to replace them. 6. If we want to protect people's health, we must spend government money to control pollution. All the above sentences are quoted from 英语常见问题解答大辞典, by 赵振才. Are the quoted sentences really acceptable? Can we really say "spend money/time to do sth"? Yes, if you're telling the purpose, but there is also the pattern with the -ing words. spend money/time ---ing. If you are saying what the money or time was spent on, i.e., the activities engaged in, use the -ing form. If you are telling why the money or time was spent, i.e., the purpose for the spending, use the infinitive form. In some cases you can interpret the thought as both the activity and the purpose, so either one can be used. We spent a lot of money advertising last year. (We spent a lot of money in the course of doing advertising activities.) We spent a lot of money (in order) to advertise last year. (We spent a lot of money for the purpose of doing advertising.) I would not use spend with efforts. I would use expend. He expended a great deal of effort [to help me / helping me]. http://www.englishforums.com/English/SpendMoneyDoing/zxdbd/post.htm -- ※ 编辑: perspicuity (114.45.102.94), 05/22/2017 01:57:20