这箱子太重搬不起来。误 This box is too heavy to lift it.
正 This box is too heavy to be lifted.
这东西你拿,可能太重了吧?误 Will this be too heavy for you to carry it?
正 Will this be too heavy for you to carry?
析 在too...to...的句子里,如果主语和宾语是同一物,则宾语不必重复。
这孩子太小不能上学。误 The child is too young not to go to school.
正 The child is too young to go to school.
太热了,睡不着。误 It is too hot not to sleep.
正 It is too hot to sleep.
析 在too...to...的结构中,动词不定式是以肯定形式表示否定意义,所以不能在不定式前再加not。
你对我真是太好了。误 You are too much kind to me.
正 You are much too kind to me.
电车太慢。误 The trams are too much slow.
正 The trams are much too slow.
析 用于加强语气时须用much too,其后跟形容词或副词。
我不喜欢咖啡,我也不太喜欢茶。误 I don't like coffee, and I don't much like tea, too.
正 I don't like coffee, and I don't much like tea, either.
我也没看过这部片子。误 I haven't seen this film, too.
正 I haven't seen this film, either.
析too和either都表示“也”,但too只用于肯定句中,在否定句中必须用either。
雨下得太大,他们都回不了家。误 It rained too heavily that they could not go home.
正 It rained so heavily that they could not go home.
析 在“too+形容词〔副词〕”后面不能与that从句连用。如用that从句, too就必须改成so。
他是好心人,不会拒绝的。误 He is too kind person to refuse.
正 He is too kind a person to refuse.
析 当too与一个形容词和一个单数名词连用时,名词前面必须带不定冠词,即“too+形容词+a/an+名词”,名词前没有不定冠词就不能用这个结构。
对我来说,这汤太咸。误 The soup's very too salty for me.
正 The soup's far too salty for me.
这根绳子有点儿太短了。误 The rope is quite too short.
正 The rope is a little too short.
析too不能与very, quite, fairly, pretty等副词连用,表示too的程度; 可以使用much, far, a little, a lot等来修饰too。
他太小,自己还不能穿衣。误 He is young enough to dress himself.
正 He is too young to dress himself.
析 enough和too后都可以接不定式作结果状语,但意思不同。too...to...意为“太…以至于不…”,含有否定意义; ... enough to 意为“足以…干…”。