71 動名詞用作主語　Track 071

（1）單個的動名詞放在句首作主語時，謂語動詞用單數(shù)形式
例句
a. Seeing is believing.
b. Reading is like permitting a man to talk a long time, and refusing you the right to answer.
c. Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
憎恨別人，就好像為了趕走一只老鼠而把自己的房子燒掉。
d. Having a successful marriage takes effort and patience, and communication is the key.
獲得成功的婚姻需要努力和耐心，而交流就是關鍵。
e. Going to the school dance is a lot of fun. But sometimes, deciding who to go with isn’t easy.
（2）It is no good doing sth.句型
這里，it只是形式主語，真正的主語是后面的doing sth.。其中，no good可替換為：any/some good，any/some/no use，a waste of time等。
例句
a. Is it any good trying to explain?
b. It’s no use crying over spilt milk.
c. It’s not much use my buying salmon if you don’t like fish.
d. It’s simply a waste of time and money seeing that movie.
（3）There be句型中動名詞的使用
1）There is no point (in) doing sth. 干某事沒有必要，沒有意義
a. There is no point in my buying salmon if you don’t like fish.
b. There is no point in my going out to date someone. I might really like it if I met him at the right time, but, right now, he has no chance of being anything to me but a transitional man.
現(xiàn)在讓我出去和別人約會沒有意義。如果我在對的時間遇到那個人，我可能會很欣喜。可是在現(xiàn)在這個時候，我跟他也不會有結果的，除非是為了解解悶而已。
2）There is no use/good (in) doing sth. 干某事沒有用
There is no use arguing with him.
和他爭吵沒有意義。
3）There is no doing sth. 意思是“不能……；不可……”
a. There is no denying that…　毋庸置疑……
b. There is no saying that…　說不準……
c. There is no telling what will happen tomorrow.
d. There’s no knowing when she’ll come back.