1. It作先行主語和先行賓語的一些句型

　　She had said what it was necessary to say.

　　2. 強(qiáng)調(diào)句型

　　It is not who rules us that is important, but how he rules us.

　　3."All+抽象名詞"或"抽象名詞+itself"(very+形容詞)

　　He was all gentleness to her.

　　4. 利用詞匯重復(fù)表示強(qiáng)調(diào)

　　A crime is a crime a crime.

　　5. "something(much)of" 和"nothing(little)of""something　of"相當(dāng)于"to some extent"，表示程度。在疑問句或條件從句中，則為"anything of"，可譯為"有點(diǎn)"，"略微等。""譯為毫無"，"全 無"。"much of"譯為"大有"，"not much of"可譯為"算不上"，"稱不上"，"little of"可譯為"幾乎無"。 something like譯為"有點(diǎn)像，略似。"

　　They say that he had no university education, but he seems to be something of a scholar.

　　6. 同格名詞修飾是指of前后的兩個(gè)名詞都指同一個(gè)人或物，"of"以及它前面的名詞構(gòu)一個(gè)形容詞短語，以修飾"of"后面的那個(gè)名詞。如"her old sharper of a father"，可譯為："她那騙子般的父親"。

　　Those pigs of girls eat so much.

　　7. as…as…can(may)be

　　It is as plain as plain can be.

　　8. "It is in(with)…as in(with)"

　　It is in life as in a journey.

　　"not…any more than…"為："不能……，正如不能……"。

　　One cannot learn to sketch and express himself graphically only by reading about it any more than one can learn to swim while standing by the pool.

　　"Be that as it may"是"Let it be that as it may"的省略形式，是由"be"引起的另外一種假設(shè)結(jié)構(gòu)，意思是"雖然如此，盡管這樣"。

　　It is said that the nerve poison is the more primitive of the two, that the blood poison is, so to speak, a new product from an improved formula. Be that as it may, the nerve poison does its business with man far more quickly than the blood poison.