英语中表肯定意义的否定句探析

Discussion on Negative Sentences Conveying Positive Meanings

在英语中,出于表达的习惯、口吻的轻重或修辞的需要,否定的句式传递的可能是肯定的意义。英语中这种表肯定意义的否定句是中国学生语法学习的难点之一。本文重点从形式和语义的角度对这类语言现象进行了归纳和探讨。

Negative sentences may convey positive meanings either in idiomatic expressions, or for the severity of the tone or the rhetorical purpose. Negative sentences with non-negative meanings are one of the difficulties in grammar learning for Chinese students. The paper is to discuss and summarize this kind of phenomenon from the form and sense of the English language.