今天我们来看一部大家都十分熟悉和喜爱的电影——《哈利波特》在其系列的第三部《哈利波特与阿兹卡班的囚徒》里有这么一句话,见下图。
“She deserved what she got.”中出现了deserve一词,这是日常口语中经常出现的一个词,在我们新二的教材中也有出现。
比如新二第11课的标题叫做:One good turn deserves another.(好心应有好报)
下面就让我们来总结看看deserve这个词的各种用法吧:
deserve v.应得
If you say that a person or thing deserves something, you mean that they should have it or receive it because of their actions or qualities.
常见用法:
1、deserve sth.
刚刚提到的哈利波特的电影的用法就是这个,该用法其实有一个更加简单的用法:
You deserve it!(你活该)
在口语中十分常用。
More examples:
Government officials clearly deserve some of the blame as well.
政府官员们显然也应受到某些谴责。
They deserve our praise and thanks.
他们值得我们的表扬和感谢。
2、deserve to do sth.
Examples:
These people deserve to make more than the minimum wage.
这些人应该得到高于最低工资的报酬。
He deserves to get the prize because of his excellent score.
鉴于他的高分,他应该得到这个奖。
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