英语中否定形式的表达

在英语中经常用到否定形式，除了not, no之外，英语中还有其他的形式也可表达否定形式，下面是笔者对这些形式的总结。

1)用 no 和 not：

No smoking is allowed here. Not a man was seen.

He has no brothers. He is no fool.

2)用形容词：far from, short of, free from, different from, last, poor, absent,

It is far from the truth.

I am short of money. This is the last thing I''d like to do.

3)用副词：hardly, scarcely, rarely, seldom, never, no longer, not... any longer (more), not ... at all, nowhere,

I can hardly bear it.

4)动词：fail, neglect, miss, deny, ignore, refuse, keep from, protect from, dislike, prevent from, exclude, forbid, wonder, lack, stop,

Parents keep their children from smoking.

5)用连词：unless， would rather...than, other than, neither...nor, before, except that, or, otherwise,

I would rather die than give in.

The truth is quite other than what you think.

I thanked him before he said anything.

6)用不定代词：none, little, few, neither, nobody, nothing, no one

Seize today, with little trust in tomorrow.

Money lost little lost, time lost all lost.

7)用介词：without, instead of, in place of, out of, but for, beyond, except, but, in the dark, at a loss， in no respect, in no sense, by no means, under no circumstance, in no shape, in no way(case), on no condition, above, behind,

This is out of (beyond) my description.

Do you know that? No, I am in the dark.

8)用句式：too...to, too...for, let alone, anything but, why not, not so...as

He can''t walk let alone run.

This is too much for me to bear.

9)用词缀: a-, ab-, anti-, de-, dis-, mal-, mis-, non-, in-, ob, under-, -less, -free.

It is duty-free(免税). It is abnormal(不正常).