三个表示“充分利用”的短语-make use of/make the best of/make the&n
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三个表示“充分利用”的短语-make use of/make the best of/make the most of
高中英语中有三个表示“充分利用”的短语——make the best of, make the most of, make good [full] use of。它们结构相近,意思相似,你会使用它们吗?你知道它们有什么区别吗?
1. make the best of
一般词典将其译为“充分利用”“善用”“尽力而为”,但英语词典对该短语的解释是to accept a situation which is not very good, and do whatever you can to make it better(接受不是很好的状况,并设法使它变得变好),指的是在境况不理想的情况下而尽力而为,即尽量往好处努力,具体翻译时可以灵活处理。如:
Make
the best of your limited
time.
We
must make the best of the few natural resources we
have.
We
must try to make the best of things until we can afford a bigger
house.
We’ll have to spend
the night in this awfully place, so we might as well make the best
of it.
注意:该结构的best前必须要有定冠词。
2. make the most of
该短语通常译为“充分利用”,但英语词典对该短语的解释是profit as much as one can from…(从……获取尽可能多的好处),即不管所处的境况有利还是不利,一定要把所有的好处和优势利用到极致。如:
She
doesn’t know how to make the most of
herself.
It’s
my first holiday for two years so I’m going to make the most of
it.
It’s
my first trip abroad so I’m going to make the most of
it.
She’s not really
beautiful, but she makes the most of her
looks.
说明:该结构的most前也必须要有定冠词。make
the best of与make the most
of的区别是,前者的语境背景通常是一个“消极的”(如不好、不利、不足、不令人满意等),而后者的语境背景则没有特别限制,可以是“消极的”,也可以是“积极的”。所以在有些情况下,make
the most of
You
have only a short holiday, so make the most of
it.
We
had to make the most of our rather slender
resources.
3. make good [full] use of
该结构中的use前不用冠词。一般只说make
use
of,其意为“利用”“使用”,其用法与用作动词的
We
must make use of our untapped reservoirs of
talent.
She makes use of people she meets as raw material for her fiction.
她把她所遇见的人作为她创作小说的素材。
若要加强语气,则在use前加上修饰语good, full等,其意为“充分利用”“充分使用”。其实质用法仍与动词use用法相同,只是语气稍强而已。如:
Make
full use of every chance you have to speak
English.
We
will make good use of her
talents.
We
could make better use of our
resources.