wish

1.名词wish后面接不定式或for和名词，不接for和动名词，如可以说his wish for better times和his wish to go abroad，不可说his wish for going abroad。

2.名词wish后面可以接以that引导的从句，从句里用should或虚拟现在式。例如：It is my wish that he should do so. 和It is my wish that he do（不用does）so.

3.wish（名词）用作“请求”解往往用复数形式。例如：In accordance with your wishes, I have written to him.

4.动词wish后面接不定式，不接动名词，如可以说I wish to see him immediately，不可说I wish seeing him immediately。I wish to see him immediately比I want to see him immediately语气轻。

5.下面每组里的两句都可以说，第二句似乎含有“想要（而难于得到）”的意思：

• He wishes her acquaintance.
  He wishes for her acquaintance.
• I wonder what you wish.
  I wonder what.you wish for.

比较下面两句：

• You may get what you wish.
• You are not likely to get what you wish for.

6.下面三句意思不同：

• I wish to see him immediately. （我要立刻见他。）
• I wish I may see him immediately. （希望我可以立刻见他。）
• I wish I could see him immediately. （但愿我能够［实际不能］立刻见他。）

注意：（1）第二句不很普通。（2）第三句里不用can而用could。

下面两句意思可以说相同：

• I wish you to go immediately. （我要你立刻去。［表示命令或请求。这句里用wish不及用want普通］）
• I wish you would go immediately. （我巴不得你立刻去。［也表示命令或请求，但语气婉转些］）

注意第二句里用would而不用will。比较下面两句：

• I wish you would go immediately.
• I hope you will go immediately.

注意I wish he would go immediately含有“恐怕他不会立刻去”的意思，并不表示恳求。

7.下面每组里的两句意思相同，第二句里用was或had是为了时态的呼应：

• I wish I could hear what he is saying.
  I wish I could hear what he was saying.
• He wishes he knew where the girl has gone.
  He wishes he knew where the girl had gone.

8.下面两句意思相同：

• I wish my father were in better health.
• I could wish my father were in better health.

第二句里的could实际是没有作用的，但事实上往往这样用。

9.I wish you to go immediately是“我要你立刻去”。I wish you to be happy是“我希望你快乐”。下面各句里的wish，wishes或wished都作“愿望”解，那for用的少，不用的多：

• I wish (for) you to be happy.
• He wishes (for) all his friends to become heroes.
• He wished (for) her to become both educated and temperament.
• She wished (for) her daughter to make a satisfactory marriage.

10.下面每组里的两句意思相同：

• I wish myselfat home.(我巴不得[现在]在家。)
  I wish 【were (有时用was) at home.
• He wishes it true.(他巴不得这是真的。)
  He wishes it were(有时用 was)true.
• She wishes the noise stopped.(她希望那声音停止。)
  She wishes the noise to be stopped.

11.下面一句里用is wishing比用wishes生动，有口语性质：

• James sold his typewriter because he thought he would get a good price for it, now he is wishing he had kept it.

12.下面每组里的两句意思相同：

• I wish him success.
  I wish success to him.
• She wishes you no harm.
  She wishes no harm to you.

13.假使把I wish I could see him immediately和I wish my father were in better health等句改成了过去时态，那could和were不变。例如：I wished I could see him immediately. 和I wished my father were in better health.