误The blind needs our help.
正The blind need our help.
那诗人双目失明。误The poet is a blind.
正The poet is blind.
析blind前面加上定冠词the,泛指“盲人”,不能用来指单个的人。
他一只眼瞎了。误He is blind in an eye.
正He is blind in one eye.
正He is blind of an eye.
正He is blind of one eye.
析表示一只眼睛失明时可以用be blind in one eye 或 be blind of an eye。用in 时,其后一般接one eye; 用of时,其后可接one eye,也可接an eye。
他左眼瞎了。误He is blind of the left eye.
正He is blind in the left eye.
析具体表达(左、右)哪个眼瞎了,介词要用in,不能用of。
她从小眼睛就瞎了。误Her left eye became blind when she was a girl.
正She became〔went〕 blind when she was a girl.
析blind用作表语时,其主语只能是人,不能是eye。
他对自己的缺陷视而不见。误He is blind of his own defects.
正He is blind to his own defects.
析在be blind, turn a blind eye 等之后都接to,表示“对…视而不见”。
The blind is my uncle.误盲人是我的叔父。
正那盲人是我的叔父。
析the blind在一定上下文中也可指单个人,这时谓语动词是单数形式,此处的blind是名词。而在表示“一类人”的the blind中blind是形容词。