return(ed)
1.return again和return back两种表达方式里的again和back都是多余的,该删去。
2.return(动词或名词)往往用作“再来”解。例如:The bad weather has returned. 和A return of bad weather is expected. 假使你拜访某人,他正在忙着,向你说Please return at...,就是说“请在…(时候)再来”。
3.return往往用现在时态或现在进行时态指将来,如He returns tomorrow或He is returning tomorrow作He will return tomorrow解。
4.在信函里说I(或We)return跟I am(或We are)returning意思相同。例如:I return your book with thanks.
5.by return,by return of post,by return post和by return mail都作“由下一班回邮”解,不作“用复信”解。
6.He has returned和He is returned的不同,相当于He has come和He is come的不同。参见come 3
7.注意I had been out when he returned my call里的returned的宾语是my call,不可把my call改作his call或a call。
8.to return可以单独用作“言归本题”解。例如:But to return, Mr Fox did not marry her. (可是话归本题,Fox先生不曾跟她结婚。)也可以说Returning to Mr Fox, he did not marry her。
9.returned emigrant,returned clergyman(已经从属地回到英国本土的教士),returned student(已经回国的留学生),returned prodigal(已经悔过而回家的浪子)等表达方式里的returned都是不及物动词return的过去分词用作形容词。Her brother, lately returned from England, is staying with her等句子里的returned也是不及物动词return的过去分词用作形容词。