refuse的若干用法与搭配问题
1. 后接名词或代词作宾语,注意以下用法:
(1) 若后接人作宾语,表示拒绝某人。如:
It’s clever of her to refuse them. 她拒绝他们那是明智的。
(2) 若后接事物作宾语,表示拒绝接受某物。如:
He refused the money. 他拒绝收钱。
Why did she refuse the job? 她为什么拒绝接受这项工作。
(3) 若后接双宾语,通常表示给予某人某物。如:
He refused her nothing. 她要什么他就给什么。
They’ve refused him leave of absence. 他们不准他休假。
接双宾语时,若双宾语易位时,通常用介词to引出间接宾语。如:
We refused him admittance.=We refused admittance to him. 我们不让他入场。
2. 表示拒绝做某事,其后可接不定式,但不能接动名词,也不能接不定式的复合结构或that从句。如:
他拒绝我用他的词典。
正:He refused to let me use his dictionary.
误:He refused me to use his dictionary.
误:He refused my using his dictionary.
误:He refused that I should use his dictionary.