not-only-but-also的用法(史上最全最详细)
过大年作文-收入证明
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Not only…but also是英语中较为常见的一个关联词组。由于它的
用法比较复杂，本文拟对其
用法及其使用中应注意的问题作一归纳。
一、主要用法
1．连接主语：
Not only I but
also Tom and Mary are fond of watching television.
不仅我，而且汤姆和玛丽都喜欢看电视。
2．连接谓语动词
The Americans and the British not only
speak the same language but also share
a large
number of social
customs.英国人和美国人不但语言相同，而且有很多相同的风俗
习惯。
注意not only…but also连接的动词一般不重复，这与汉语不同。如汉语说“我不仅懂
英语，而且懂俄语”，英语则说“I know not only English but also
Russian”，而不说
“I not only know English but also
know Russian”.再如：“气体不仅改变形状，而且
改变体积”，英译为“A gas
changes not only in shape but also in
volume.”（注意介
词常重复）
3．连接宾语：
The problem for the recipient was trying
to guess not only who the sender was,
but also
what his secret feelings might
be.收信人不仅要尽力猜出是谁的，还要推测寄
信人内心有什么想法。
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4．连接宾语补足语：
Light and bright colors make people not only
happier but more
active.浅色和鲜
艳的颜色不但使人看了高兴，也会使人更加活泼。
5．连接表语：
Shakespeare was not only a writer
but (also) an actor 莎士比亚不仅是一位剧作家，而
且是一位演员。
6．连接状语：
If your friend reminds
you kindly of your faults, take what he says not
merely
pleasantly but thank fully.
如果低你的朋友善意地指明出你的缺点，你不但要欣然接受，
而且要心怀感激之情。
7．连接从句：
He didn’t let us off the
hook until we had proved not only that we knew
what
an organism was but also that we had the
fortitude to stand up for the truth. 直到
我们证明了我们
不仅知道什么是生物体，而且具有坚持真理的不屈不挠精神时，他这才放过
我们。
8．连接定语：
Man has become master not
only of the sky but also of the space.
人类不但征服
可编辑
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了天空，而且征服了太空。
9．连接句子：
I not only heard it, but
(also) I saw it. 我不仅听到、而且看到了它。 Not only…but
also连接句子时, not only
可以置于句首表示强调,这时第一分句要采用倒装结构。例如：
Not only
has he a first-class brain but also he is a
tremendously hard worker.
他
不仅有着头等聪明的脑子，而且工作很能吃苦。
Not only
had the poor man been arrested but he had been
sent to prison as
well. 这个可怜的人不仅被逮捕，而且被投进监狱。
Not only do the professors have their
own ideas on the matter, but the
students have
theirs too.对这件事不仅教授们有自己的看法，学生们也有自己的想法。
10．用于 it is…that 强调结构
It is not only
the scientist and the physician who need a long
special training
now, but the computer expert,
the accountant, and the business manager.
现在，不
仅科学家和医生需要长期的专门训练，计算机专家、会计师和企业经理也需要这种训练。
It is not only what we do, but also
what we do not do, for which we are
accountable. 我们不但要对我们所做的事负责，而且要对我们没有去做的事负责。
二、not only…but的省略及其变体
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1．Not only…but also中的also可以省略。
有人认为该句型所连接的第二部分最高级
形容词或它所表示的范围、程度、影响等超过第一部分时，常将
also省略。例如：
He was not only a successful
writer but (also) the greatest poet of his time.
他不仅
是一位成功的作家，而且是他那个时代最伟大的诗人。
He is
famous not only in China but (also) in the whole
world. 他不仅闻名中国，
而且闻名全球。
Not only
do they suffer less pain than most women in labor,
but the town
boasts an unusually low rate of
infant mortality.
这不仅使她们比大多数产妇受痛苦，
而且使城市婴儿死亡率大大降低。
only…but
also句型一般只省略also,但在连接句子时，有时也可见到省略but甚
至but
also的情形。例如：
Not only was I tired, I
was also cold.我不光困倦， 还感到很冷。（省去了but）
George not only made an important friend, he also
learned about the frontier.
（省去了but）
Since moisture is needed for rain, dry air in the
morning not only allows the
spider to get an
early start, is also means a dry day. 有了湿度才会下雨，因此，
早晨空
气干燥不仅使蜘蛛早点开始结网，而且意味着这一天不会下雨。（省去了but）
Not only bas she been an excellent wife,
she has been a better husband than
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I’ll never be.
她不仅是一个极其出色的妻子，而且是一个我永远也做不到的好丈夫。（省去了but also）
Not only were there no traces of drinking
water in the room, there was not
sufficient
water found in the dead star’s stomach to have
comfortably taken the
tablets with. 不仅房内没有饮用水的
痕迹，在这位已故影星的胃里也没发现有把这些药丸
舒适地送下去的水。省去了but also)
3. not only…but
also的形式比较固定，但也会出现but与also被分隔开来的情形。
例如：Not only
the mother but the children are also sick.
Not only is his right lung affected but
his left lung is also.他不但右肺被感染，而
且左肺也被感染了。
only A but also B的替代式常见的还有not only A but
B…as well, not only A
but B too, not merely A
but also B, not just A but also B, not…alone…but
等。例如：
Not only my mother was unhappy,
but Mary, too. 不但我妈妈不高兴，玛丽也不
高兴。
In jurisprudence it is a well-known principle that
justice should not merely be
done but should
also be seen to be done.在法理学方面，人所共知的原则是：对受害者
不仅
应当公正对待，而且应当让人们看到他得到了公正的对待。
Not just
the people of our nation, but all the people of
the world have profited
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from his
work.不仅我们国家的人民，而且全世界所有的人民，都从他的研究工作中得到了
好处。
Not poets alone, nor artists, nor that
superior order of mind which arrogates to
itself all refinement, feel this, but dogs and
all
men.不仅诗人，艺术家以及那些自命不
凡、思想杰出的人觉得如此，连狗和普通人也有同感。
二、注意事项
1．”not only A but also
B”结构中的A和B通常是同等成分。由于同一成分常常由
同一词类的词来担任，所以A与B常常也是同
一词性，这从本文第一部分的例句中即可看
到。但是，也有A与B属于不同词性的情形。如：”He
is not only very clever, but also
a very hard
worker, and he likes to do everything well.（他不但聪明，
而且能下功夫。
他喜欢把每一件事都做得很好。）其中A是形容词，B是名词，但两者均在句中作表语，
因
此仍是正确句子。然而，在“He not only plays the piano, but
also the violin.”一句中，
A是动词，B是名词，不是同一成分，因此语法学家认为
此句有点欠妥，至少在书面语中就
是如此。如改为“He plays not only the
piano, but also the violin”就无懈可击了，再
看下面二例：
The surprise grant not only enabled Dad to
finish A&T, but to graduate first in
his
class.这笔意外的奖学金不仅使我父亲能读完农业和技术学院，而且毕业成绩名列榜首。
1．Not only spoke English very carefully,
but very clearly as well.
2．有人认为，not
only…but also不能用于否定句。汉语中用于否定句中的“不但…
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而且”在英语中要用as well as
表示。如“不但我不想看戏，而且他也不想看戏”可译作
“He, as well as I,
doesn’t want to see the
play.”不过，这条规则也有例外，请看下面
二例：
Not
only did none of us know how the crime was to be
committed, we didn’t
even know what the crime
was to be!
Not only don’t I know the
population of Nepal, I don’t know where in god’s
world it is!我不但不知道尼泊尔人口，而且连它究竟在哪里也不知道！
这两个例句有几个共同点：都是连接否定分句，都是倒装句，都没有用but
also。下
面一例出自一位美国作家之手，所不同的是，not
only…but连接的是并列谓语，第一个动
词是否定的，第二个动词则是肯定的：
Nonetheless, as he described Mary’s
attitudes her accomplishments, he
found
himself wishing that she cared more about the
police side of his life than she
seemed to,
that she might understand it as intimately, say,
as the woman opposite
him. But this motion
seemed to him so disloyal to Mary that he not only
did not
articulate it, but at once tried to
suppress it.
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