中英之鑒 中式英語之鑒236

year.

[正] The number of teachers invited to the Teachers\' Day celebrations this year was larger than that of last

year.

注：a number of 是“若干，許多”的意思，后面應(yīng)該用動(dòng)詞的復(fù)數(shù)形式;第二個(gè)句子內(nèi) the number of 中的 number 是“數(shù)目”的意思，盡管后面接了復(fù)數(shù) teachers，但主語是單數(shù)的 number，所以動(dòng)詞須用單數(shù)。