percent用法说明
(2014-09-23 17:31:34)分类: 名词;冠词 |
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在美国英语中通常合写成percent,其符号为%,使用时注意以下几点:
1.
①表示表示整体中的部分时,其后通常接“数词+percent of+名词”,意为“……当中的百分之多少”,在通常情况下,其中的名词是特指的,所以通常会带有定冠词或其他表特指的限定词(如his, her, these, those, Tom’s等)。如:
Ten
per cent of the apples are
bad.
She’s richer than
90 per cent of her
neighbours.
Indonesia is home
to some ten per cent of the world’s tropical rain
forest.
有时介词of后不跟名词,而是跟人称代词。如:
Only
two percent of them are qualified for skilled
work.
注意,如果其中的名词不表特指意义,而只是表泛指意义,则名词前无需用定冠词。如:
About 90 percent of
most food is
water.
Over
sixty per cent of families own a
television.
②若意义明确,也可单独使用,直接用作主语或宾语。如:
A
student who gets 90%
Of
the earth’s land surface, 20 percent is
desert.
Real
incomes have gone up by 10%
2.
①直接用于名词前作定语,其后不能接介词of,其意为“百分之多少的……”。如:
The
union demands a 7%
Genius is
10%
②注意用作形容词与用作名词在结构和意义上的区别,比较:
I
pay him four per cent
interest.
He
gave me for per cent of the
interest.
3.
①用于修饰形容词或副词(包括其比较级)。如:
I
think it is ninety per cent
probable.
Salaries are from
10%
②用于修饰动词。如:
Unemployment has
increased 1.5 per
cent.
Prices have risen
5.5 percent in the past
year.
有时修饰动词过去分词。如:
He
was, however, not a hundred percent
convinced.
③用于修饰介词短语。如:
The
output value of chemical fertilizer in the first quarter was 18 per
cent above that of the same period in
1990.