詞彙精選：cannot help的用法和辨析

一、詳細釋義：

phr.

不得不，忍不住

例句：

I cannot help admiring his courage.|| I cannot but admire his courage.

我對於他的勇氣不勝佩服。

例句：

The joke is so interesting that you cannot help laughing after listening to it.

那個笑話太有趣了，聽了真叫人忍俊不禁。

二、詞義辨析：

cannot help,cannot but,cannot help but

這些詞組均表示“不得不，不禁”之意。cannot help與動名詞連用，表示“不得不”是口語用法，詞組中的help相當於avoid或prevent，是一種比較好的用法。cannot but後跟不定式連用，是一種較正式的用法，主要用於美國英語。cannot help but跟動詞不定式連用，是cannot but與cannot help的混用，系書面用語，多用於美國英語。由於cannot help but含有雙重否定，所以有人反對使用，認爲不合習慣，但此表達法已經沿用下來。

三、參考例句：

You cannot help but respect them.

你不得不尊敬他們。

We cannot help but admire his courage.

我們情不自禁地欽佩他的勇氣。

If you cannot help worrying, then remember worrying cannot help you either.

庸人自擾，無濟於事。

I cannot help worrying to hear that there is no steamer this week.

我聽到本週沒有船的消息，禁不住擔憂起來。

One cannot help being old, but one can resist being aged.

一個人無法不變老，但是他可以抵制衰朽。

If we want to live a peaceful and democratic life, we cannot help object to war.

如果我們要過和平與民主的生活， 一定要反對戰爭。

The joke is so interesting that you cannot help laughing after listening to it.

那個笑話太有趣了，聽了真叫人忍俊不禁。

I cannot help admiring his courage.|| I cannot but admire his courage.

我對於他的勇氣不勝佩服。

Their slang for someone who tells a joke so badly, that is so unfunny you cannot help but laugh out loud.

當有不善於講笑話的人講了個一點也不好笑的事情，而你卻又不得哈哈大笑時，就可以用這個當地俚語來形容。

Since I arrived in the United Kingdom, the birthplace of the World Wide Web, I cannot help recalling a touching moment at the opening ceremony of the 2012 London Olympic Games.

來到英國這個“www”發明者的故鄉，讓我不禁想起2012年倫敦奧運會開幕式上動人的一幕。