仅以复数形式出现的名词
[例] Happy birthday, Peter, and many happy return of the day!
[析] Many happy returns of the day! 是一句固定的生日祝语,相当于汉语的“祝你年年有今日,岁岁有今朝!”returns 在此处便是约定俗成的用法。
除这一结构外,像shake hands with (= shake sb’s hand), make friends with和change seats / trains / buses等常用的结构,及thanks, cheers, congratulations, things(情况), affairs, feelings, as follows(如下), in tears, in ruins, in pieces, in chains(被囚禁), in high spirits, in one’s teens / twenties, in the 1990’s (或in the 1990s), into halves, good manners, give one’s regards / best wishes to, make contributions to, make preparations for等,也都是常用或只用复数的名词式。更多真题及资料请加小编微信65210638领取