关于 reject 这个词我在一些辅导书上看到,称搭配 doing,但是我有听到一些老师说reject 的搭配和 refuse 一样搭配 to do,我查了《牛津高阶》和《建宏多功能词典》发现都未提及 reject 的搭配问题。后来又在网上查找,竟发现几种说法都有。
请教各位老师,reject 究竟是搭配 to do、doing、还是都可以还是都不可以呢?
沅老师:
▲reject 为及物动词,它通常只接名词或代词作宾语。如:
He urged the committee to reject the plans. 他敦促委员会否决这些计划。
He rudely rejected her kind offer of help. 他粗鲁地拒绝了她好心提出的帮助。
Not surprisingly, the Council rejected the suggestion. 毫不奇怪,理事会拒绝接受建议。
I made it clear to him that I rejected his proposal. 我清楚地告诉他,我拒绝了他的建议。
I think the president was correct to reject the offer. 我认为总统拒绝这一提议是正确的。
He rejected claims that he had affairs with six women. 他拒不承认他和6个女人有染的说法。
▲除了后接名词或代词作宾语外,有时也接复合宾语。如:
The army rejected him as medically unfit. 他因体检不合格而未能入伍。
The plan was rejected as being impractical. 计划因不切实际而遭否决。
▲reject 后通常不接不定式或动名词。比如牛津大学出版社出版的The Teacher's Grammar of English 就有这样一段说明:… This actually occurs in our corpus of errors made by Spanish speakers. The example in (68) was made by a graduate student in an advanced composition class for graduate students.
(68)…but he rejects to include Erasamus's murders in his discussion.
黎老师:
reject 的宾语通常是表示人或事物的名词短语、代词,不接动词的任何形式作宾语。在正式出版的权威英英词典和英汉词典中,找不到 reject 后面直接跟动词的例句。