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词汇常识：material 可数吗?

2014-08-28 16:48

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“用英语点亮人生”，济南新航道学校专注于济南SAT 培训，提供词汇常识：material 可数吗? 供各位考生参考，更多英语知识欢迎点击济南新航道官网。

有些名词涵盖很多层意思，担当不同意义的时候它就有不同的形式，可作可数名词也可作不可数名词，比如material ，material 可数吗? 关于这问题是需要看具体语境的，material 作名词时：

1. 材料, 原料(可数或不可数)

2. 衣料, 织物(可数或不可数)

3. 素材, 资料，要素(不可数)

4. 物质; 质料更详细的区分建议你去看看字典里面的例句，就从具体意义和抽象意义上去理解，要准确的说有点难，但是结合例句分析会比较好

另外，关于可数名词和不可数名词具体形式大家还是要记清楚

1. 常考的不可数名词

furniture, luggage(行李, 皮箱), clothing, equipment, poetry, jewelry, machinery, weaponry(武器, 军备), scenery(景色), information, knowledge, homework, evidence, foliage (树叶, 植物), advertising, health

A : 流体— air, water

B: 颗粒状物体— rice, salt

C: 抽象名词— information

D: 总称名词— poetry, machinery([总称] 机器, 机械)

E: 疾病不可数— diabetes(糖尿病) measles(麻疹)

F: 自然现象— rain, drops

G: 学科不可数— mathematics, economics, statistics(统计学), physics, politics, mechanics(机械学), genetics, geology(地质学), geography,

chemistry, philosophy(哲学), biology, history

2. 常考的不规则单复数

man/men, woman/women, tooth/teeth, foot/feet, goose/geese, basis/bases主要成分(或要素), (认识论中的) 基本原则或原理, analysis/analysesanalyse分析, crisis/crises, hypothesis/hypotheses, axis/axes, alga/algae(藻类, 海藻), larva/larvae(幼虫),

fungus/fungi, stimulus/stimuli, datum/data, bacterium/bacteria, medium/media,

spectrum/spectra(频谱), mouse/mice, child/children phenomenon/phenomena(现象), radius/radii(半径, 范围)

3. 常考的单复数同型的名词

aircraft, spacecraft, series, species, means, sheep, deer, bison, salmon, trout, carp

4. 常考的可数名词

discovery, cloud, mineral, metal, substance, population, effort, effect, animal, plant, mammal, insect, tree, herb, shrub, element, function, feature, picture, result, clue, star, reason, audience, device, structure, human, human being, system, fashion, resource, source, origin, pioneer, automobile, purpose, style, response, number, amount, variety, quantity, type, kind, influence, emotion, change

5. 即可数又不可数的名词

sugar , cloth , water , detail , paper ,work , light , science ,form , interest , art ,

area ,color , disease , illness , rock , stone ,matter , food , culture ,noise , liquid , solid, gas, climate, film, material, population, temperature, experience ,speech ,use, time , life , action , activity , study,

rock(砂岩) rocks(块岩); work(工作, 作品) works(著作); paper(纸) papers(论文, 报告, 文件); area(面积) areas(地区, 区域); time(时间) times(次数); room(空间) rooms(房间) ;water(水) waters(水域)

collections 由同一种物品构成, 可数 his three collections of short stories

collection 由不同种物品构成, 不可数 his art collection

※ 当一个不可数名词表种类时, 可数