(1)表示否定的詞語(yǔ)
hardly, barely, seldom, rarely, scarcely, little, few; nobody, nothing, neither, not, no, nor, never, none; deny, fail, miss, doubt, beyond, without, no one, nowhere, past, ignore, overlook, above, off, miss, dislike, eliminate, reject, deny, fail, stop, lease, decline, grudge, refuse
(2)表示否定的短語(yǔ)
at a loss, out of, instead of, short of, independent of, devoid of, ignorant of, innocent of, far from, free from, rather than, not everywhere, all… not, both… not, every…not, no…no (not), not…without, no (no not, nothing, never)… but, too…to, can’t but, can’t help but, not (never, no) …unless, not…until, neither… nor, anything but, not better than
(3)表示否定的句型
She should know better than to trust such a man.
=She shouldn’t trust such a man.
Catch me doing that.
=I shall not do that.
If ever I heard the like.
=I never heard the like.
That science is all Greek to me, and I cannot follow it at all.
=I know nothing about that science, I can’t understand it.
I’ll eat my hat if I do.
=I shall not do that.
God knows!
=It is not something that ordinary people can know.
值得注意的是，有時(shí)英語(yǔ)中否定的意思不是直接表達(dá)出來(lái)的，而是要聽完整個(gè)對(duì)話，結(jié)合上下文甚至語(yǔ)音語(yǔ)調(diào)進(jìn)行判斷，這是否定關(guān)系題中比較難的題目。
例如：① How could anyone do such a thing? ↓
=It is unlikely that anyone could do such a thing.
② Have I enough time? ↓ =I don’t have enough time.
