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關(guān)閉窗口 alike能不能用very修飾
■陳根花（長沙）
前面有網(wǎng)友提問：alike能不能用very修飾？
老師說，alike不能用very修飾，但我在書看到這樣一個(gè)句子：
Tom and his friend are very alike.
這個(gè)怎么解釋？
原問題見：https://www.cpsenglish.com/question/46443
國內(nèi)出版的有些慣用法詞典仍沿用一些過時(shí)的用法，沒有與時(shí)俱進(jìn)。網(wǎng)友上面的這個(gè)問題就是比較典型的一個(gè)例子。比如《薄冰英語慣用法詞典》在alike詞條就認(rèn)為：
alike意為“相像”，是表語形容詞，前面不可用very修飾，應(yīng)說much alike或very much alike，用very much比much普遍。例如：
The father and the son are alike, both being early risers. 父子倆很相像，都愛早起。
Mother and daughter are very much alike in their fear of snakes. 母女兩人在怕蛇方面是一模一樣。
但事實(shí)上，這一觀點(diǎn)已經(jīng)很過時(shí)了，許多介紹英語用法的原版辭書早就修正了這一觀點(diǎn)，比如Michael Swan的《英語用法指南》(Practical English Usage, 1980)在其第1版中就指出：有人認(rèn)為very alike這種說法是不對(duì)的，一定要說very much。其實(shí)，very alike在受過教育的人使用的語言里也是常見的。
事實(shí)上，very alike 的用法不僅在閱讀中隨處可見，而且早已被各類英語辭典和語法著作所收錄：
She and her sister are very alike. (Longman Dictionary of American English, 4th edition, 2008)
We looked very alike. (Collins COBUILD Advanced Dictionary of English, 2009)
The children all look very alike. (Cambridge Advanced Learner’s Dictionary; 4th Edition, 2013)
Bill and Tom are very alike. (A Practical English Grammar, 4th Edition,1986)
The two boys are very alike. (Oxford American Dictionary for Learners of English, 2011)
The correspondences are interesting; the two sets of information are very alike. (Longman Lexicon of Contemporary English,1992)
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