no /nəʊ/ CET4 TEM4

• 1. 

  CONVENTION You use no to give a negative response to a question. (用于否定回答) 不; 没有

  例：

  "Any problems?"—"No, I'm O.K."

  “有问题吗？”—“没有，我挺好。”

• 2. 

  CONVENTION You use no to say that something that someone has just said is not true. (用于否定别人的陈述) 不; 没有

  例：

  "We thought you'd emigrated."—"No, no."

  “我们还以为你已经移民了呢。”—“不，没有。”

• 3. 

  CONVENTION You use no to refuse an offer or a request, or to refuse permission. (用于拒绝建议、请求或许可) 不用; 不行

  例：

  "Here, have mine."—"No, this is fine."

  “给，用我的。”—“不用，这个挺好的。”

  例：

  "Can you just get the message through to Pete for me?"—"No, no I can't."

  “你能帮我把这个信儿带给皮特吗？—“不行，我不能。”

• 4. 

  INTERJ You use no to indicate that you do not want someone to do something. (表示禁止) 不要

  例：

  No. I forbid it. You cannot.

  不，我不准。你不可以。

• 5. 

  CONVENTION You use no to acknowledge a negative statement or to show that you accept and understand it. (表示接受或理解对方的否定陈述) 对，不是

  例：

  "We're not on the main campus."—"No."

  “我们不在主校园。”—“是的。”

  例：

  "It's not one of my favourite forms of music."—"No."

  “它不是我最喜欢的音乐形式之一。”—“对，不是。”

• 6. 

  CONVENTION You use no before correcting what you have just said. (用于纠正刚说过的话) 噢不

  例：

  I was twenty-two – no, twenty-one.

  我那时22岁。—噢不，21岁。

• 7. 

  INTERJ You use no to express shock or disappointment at something you have just been told. (表示对获知的事情的惊讶或失望) 是吗; 不会吧 [情感]

  例：

  "We went with Sarah and the married man that she's currently seeing."—"Oh no."

  “我们与萨拉和她最近约会的那个已婚男子一起去的。”—“不会吧。”

• 8. 

  DET You use no to mean not any or not one person or thing. 没有

  例：

  He had no intention of paying the cash.

  他丝毫没有付现金的意思。

  例：

  No job has more influence on the future of the world.

  没有哪种工作对世界的未来具有更大的影响。

• 9. 

  DET You use no to emphasize that someone or something is not the type of thing mentioned. 绝非 [强调]

  例：

  He is no singer.

  他绝非唱歌家。

  例：

  I make it no secret that our worst consultants earn nothing.

  我毫不隐瞒地说我们最差的顾问挣不到一分钱。

• 10. 

  ADV You can use no to make the negative form of a comparative. (用于比较级的否定形式) 不 [ADV compar]

  例：

  It is to start broadcasting no later than the end of 1994.

  开始广播不会晚于1994年底。

  例：

  Yesterday no fewer than thirty climbers reached the summit.

  昨天不少于三十名登山者到达了顶峰。

• 11. 

  DET You use no in front of an adjective and noun to make the noun group mean its opposite. (用于名词及其修饰形容词前表示否定) 并非

  例：

  Sometimes a bit of selfishness, if it leads to greater self-knowledge, is no bad thing.

  有时候一点点的自私，如果能引发更多自知之明，也并非坏事。

• 12. 

  DET No is used in notices or instructions to say that a particular activity or thing is forbidden. (用于通知或指示中) 禁止

  例：

  The captain turned out the "no smoking" signs.

  机长关掉了“禁止吸烟”标志灯。

  例：

  No talking after lights out.

  熄灯后禁止说话。

• 13. 

  N-COUNT A no is a person who has answered "no" to a question or who has voted against something. No is also used to refer to their answer or vote. 作否定回答者; 投反对票者; 否定回答

  例：

  According to the latest opinion polls, the noes have 50 percent, the yeses 35 percent.

  根据最新的民意测验，投反对票的人占50%，投赞成票的人占35%。

• 14. 

  PHRASE If you say there is no doing a particular thing, you mean that it is very difficult or impossible to do that thing. 不可能 (做某事) [强调]

  例：

  There is no going back to the life she had.

  不可能回到她过去的生活。

• 15. 

  not to take no for an answer →see answer

• 16. 

  no doubt →see doubt

• 17. 

  no longer →see long

• 18. 

  in no way →see way

• 19. 

  there's no way →see way

• 20. 

  no way →see way