Articles 冠詞 2

In Articles 1we looked at the 3 golden rules of articles:

在《冠詞1》我們談了關於冠詞的三個黃金守則。

1  People’s jobs have a/an. He’s an architect.

人們的職業前要帶a/an。

2  Singular countable nouns have an article. That’s the woman I met last week.

單數可數名詞要帶冠詞。

3  Things in general –no article. Cats like mice.

概括性的事物沒有冠詞。

Here we look at some other rules for the use of articles.

今天我們談其他幾個關於使用冠詞的規則。

 

Special places

特殊的場合和地點

·  My son’s at university but my daughter still goes to school.

·  He was sent to prison for 10 years.

·  Now that winter’s here I find it difficult to get out of bed.

·  I go to work by bus but I go home on foot.

In expressions with a number of places there is no article after a preposition.

在表達地點的時候，介詞後面是不跟冠詞的。
These places include：

這些地點包括: to/at school, to/at university/college, to/in church, to/in/out of prison, to/in hospital, to/in/out of bed, to/at work, at home.

NOTE: While we say ‘go to school’and ‘go to work’etc, the expression ‘go home’has neither ‘the’nor ‘to’.

我們說go to school和go to work等等，go home是既沒有the 也不帶to的

 

Transport

交通

·  I go to work by bus but I go home on foot.

·  I hate travelling by train.

Modes of transport (by bus, by train, by car, by plane, by bicycle) don’t have an article. Notice that on foot is different.

交通方式不帶冠詞。

 

Geography

地理

No article

不帶冠詞

–continents 洲(Africa, Asia etc.) countries 國家(France, Germany, Slovakia etc - but the Slovak Republic, the United States, the United Kingdom) towns & cities城鎮和城市(Bratislava, London etc.) Lakes 湖泊(Lake Victoria, Lake Balaton etc.)universities (Oxford University, Nitra University etc.)

With ‘the’

帶the的

–seas & oceans大海和海洋(the Atlantic, the Mediterranean etc.) mountain ranges 山羣(the Himalayas, the Tatras) rivers河流(the Amazon, the Danube etc.)

 

Other expressions

其他表達

·  I don’t watch television very often but I listen to the radio all the time.

·  I’ve got a headache.

·  I’ve got a stomach-ache

·  I’ve got a cold.

BUT

·  I’ve got ‘flu.

·  I’ve got earache.

·  I’ve got toothache.

Other illnesses have no article.

其他疾病不帶冠詞。