英語定冠詞和不定冠詞的用法

　　1) 專有名詞,抽象名詞和物質(zhì)名詞之前一般不用冠詞。

　　China is a largest country in the world.

　　中國是世界上最大的國家。

　　I think water is a kind of food, too.

　　我認(rèn)為水也是一種食物。

　　Cotton feels soft.

　　棉花摸起來柔軟。

　　2) 表示日常餐食名詞之前不用冠詞,但如果指具體的飲食時(shí)用定冠詞 the。

　　It's time for breakfast.

　　該吃早飯了。

　　What do you have for lunch?

　　你午飯吃點(diǎn)什么?

　　The dinner I had at that restaurant was expensive.

　　我在那家飯店吃的飯很貴。

　　3) 在季節(jié),月份,星期,節(jié)日。球類運(yùn)動(dòng),棋類游戲的名詞之前不用冠詞。

　　Summer is hot and winter is cold here.

　　這兒夏天熱冬天冷。

　　New Year's Day is coming.

　　新年就要到啦。

　　Today is the first day of May.

　　今天是五月的第一天。

　　We are going to play basketball this afternoon.

　　今天下午我們要去打籃球。

　　We don't like bridge very much.

　　我們不太喜歡橋牌。

　　4)語言的名稱前不用冠詞。

　　Can you speak English?

　　你會(huì)講英語嗎?

　　It's difficult to learn Chinese well.

　　要學(xué)好中文很難。

　　Tom knows English but he doesn't know French.

　　湯姆懂英語但不懂法語。

　　5) 某些固定詞組不用冠詞。

　　by air, on foot, at night, after school, at home, go to class, in fact, from morning till night.

　　I'm going to Chicago by air next week.

　　下周我要乘飛機(jī)去芝加哥。

　　I go to school on foot .

　　我步行去學(xué)校上學(xué)。

　　In fact, I don't know him at all.

　　實(shí)際上，我一點(diǎn)也不認(rèn)識(shí)他。

　　He is at home today.

　　他今天在家。