make 的用法及固定搭配

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1.He will make her a good assistant可能有两个意思:“他将使她做成一个好助手。”或“他将做成她的好助手。”当然He will make her a good wife和He will make her a good husband都只有一个意思。

2.比较下面各句:

  • He is making us some tea (=making some tea for us).
  • We will make you a discount of six per cent (=make a discount of six per cent for you).
  • The chairman is going to make us a speech (=make a speech to us).
  • I don't think he will make you a single reproach (=make a single reproach to you).

3.make(使)的宾语后面的不定式通常没有to。例如:His jokes made her laugh. 但假使把make用在被动语态里,那不定式通常有to。例如:She was made to laugh. His jokes made her to laugh和She was made laugh也不算错,但很不普通。下面两点该注意:

(1)在谚语里make的宾语后面的不定式往往有to。例如:Money makes the mare to go.(有钱能使鬼推磨。)

(2)We make our shoes to last(我们把鞋子做得坚固耐用)里的to last不可改作last,因为这句等于We make our shoes so that they will last。make是“制造”,不是“使”。

4.说“把(原料)做成(东西)”,假使那原料并不变化得看不出原料,那表示原料的词的前面用of,否则用from,如We make tables of wood和We make paper from rags。木材做成了桌子仍旧看得出是木材,但破布做成了纸便看不出是破布了。这里所说的“变化得看不出原料”,仔细想来,没有绝对的标准,如把面粉做成了馒头,不能断定是否“变化得看不出原料”,在这种情形用of或from都可以。

不用of或from而用out of,便加重了语气。

5.of first-class make(头等[技术]制造的),of Chinese make(中国制造的),of eighteenth-century make(18世纪制造的)等表达方式里都没有the。

6.下面各种表达方式都可以说:

  • a new make of motor,a new make of motors(比较少见),
  • some new makes of motor,some new makes of motors