get 作“变成”解时,有“渐渐变得......起来”的意思,其后可跟形容词、分词、介词短语或不定式作表语,间或跟名词。例如:
The weather gets warmer, and the days get longer.
I'll water them to stop the soil getting too dry.
As we get old, we find it more and more difficult to see, to hear…and to climb the stairs.
He could not wash himself or get dressed.
I didn't know she was getting married.
I don't like sports in which people easily get hurt.
I got to know him in 1990. 我是1990年认识他的。
Soon they got to be good friends. 不久他们就成了好朋友。
We got talking, and did not notice the time. 我们谈了起来,时间过去了也没注意到。
If you want to be there in time, you’d better get going. 你要是想准时到,最好就动身。
He was getting an old man. 他已经是一个老头子了。
become 作“变成”解时,指“变成好或坏的情况”,其后可跟形容词、名词、过去分词作表语。例如:
Our country is becoming stronger and stronger.
I'd like to study medicine and become a doctor.
When this soil is destroyed, the forest land will become sand again.
When did you become well-known as a cartoon-maker?
Even before he was ten, he became very interested in science.
He became so angry that he couldn’t speak.
turn 作“变成”解时,表示“转变成与原来不同的色彩或品质”强调其新的变化。其后可跟形容词作表语,间或跟不带冠词的名词。例如:
The trees turn green, and the flowers start to come out in spring.
Everything turned all right.
After they were graduated from the teachers' college, they turned teacher.
After he was graduated from the teachers' college, he turned teacher.
grow 作“变成”解时,表示“渐渐变得......起来;长得”。强调其变化过程,其后跟形容词、分词作表语,间或跟介词短语或不定式。例如:
In fact they grow better if you feed them.
You have grown so tall. 你都长得这么高了。
He grew excited, and red-eared, and a little nervous. 他激动起来,耳根都涨红了,也有一点儿紧张。
They have already grown used to that kind of work. 干这种工作他们已经习惯了。
In this way they grew from weak to strong. 就这样他们变得有弱到强。
You'll grow to like the place. 你慢慢会喜欢这地方的。
go 作“变成”解时,通常指“由好变坏”的情况,常跟表示贬义的跟形容词作表语,间或跟过去分词、介词短语或名词。例如:
Tomatoes went bad in the soil.
One question is why these telephones keep going wrong.
Mrs. Cousins held her breath, and her whole body went cold.
Her hair is going grey. 她头发变得花白了。
The equipment has gone out of date. 设备过时了。
come 作“变成”解时,表示“变成为已知的状态;证实为”其后常跟形容词或一个带有un 前缀的过去分词作表语。例如:
Wrong never come right. 错的不能变成对的。
I've always dreamt of coming to China, and now my dream has come true.
I wish my dream would come true.
The string came untied.
Your shoe laces have come undone. 你的鞋带散了。
小结:通常用作表语的有两种词语:既具有形容词性质的词语和具有名词性质的词语。以上六个词的共同特点是都可跟形容词性质的词语作表语。除了become 常跟名词性质的作表语外,其它词一般不能,或很少跟名词性质的词作表语。
如果上面单词全部作为系动词来理解, 后面直接加形容词就可以基本没什么区别, 不过一点要注意的是, GROW 后面一般加形容词的比较级因为GROW这个单词本身带有 成长 的意思; 而 GO 一般用来指 食物变质 THE FOOD GOES BAD.
我们英语老师讲的
系动词后面要跟V-ing形式.