高中英语语法讲义——强调句型

强 调 句 型

根据表达的不同需求,有时需要对句子中的某个成分进行强调,这样的句子就叫强调句。强调句有时态的变化,除了强调人时可以用who/that，极个别为了避免重复用which外,其余一律用that引导。这种语言现象在英语中也比较常见。下面简单作一小结,供大家学习时参考。

一、强调主语：

It was you who always gave Old Orlick a bad name to her. 你总是让老奥里克给她带来不好的名声。

It was my teacher who helped me out when I was in trouble. 在我困难的时候，是我的老师帮我走出了困境。

Who was it that called him “comrade”?　　是谁把他叫做“同志”的？

It was the old man who found the boy in the woods.　是那位老人在树林里找到了男孩。

It wasn’t what he says that makes us laugh.　并不是他说的话让我们发笑。

It’s my aunt that worries me.　　让我担心的是我姑妈。

It was Johnson, who studied very hard, that often offered us help. 经常帮我们的是约翰逊，他学习非常努力。

And this time it was he who would answer her questions.　这次要由他来回答她的问题。

It wasn’t the slashed throat that really bothered him. It was the two minutes. 令他烦恼的不是割伤的咽喉，而是那两分钟。

Really, it was love of children more than anything else that made him want a pack of his own. 真的，是由于爱孩子而不是别的什么，才使得他想要一群自己的孩子。

Was it the sun shining into his window or his grandmother’s voice that woke him the next morning? 是不是从他窗口射进的阳光或者祖母的声音第二天把他惊醒的？

It’s other things I have to watch for…footsteps, Mary, that come in the night and go again , and a hand that would strike me down. 玛丽，是我不得不注意的其它事情，比如说脚步声在夜里来了又去，还有一只手可能将我击倒。

---Is it to get rid of the bad habit that is difficult? ---Of course. ――去掉坏习惯很难吗？――当然啦！

It was bronchitis that finished her, helped by a week of November fog and Cressley’s industrial dirt and smoke.  谁知老伴得了支气管炎,再加上那一周十一月的雾气浓重,克列瑟莱城的工业烟尘弥漫,不到十天,她就去世了。

It is sleeping late in the morning that leads to being late for work. 是因为早上起得晚才导致上班迟到。   

It was that treatment and not the fact that she was a woman which brought patients to her. 不是因为她是女的，而是她的医术让病人找她治疗。  

It’s the food which people eat in the workhouse that helps to make the coffins so narrow and small. 

是济贫院里人吃的饭让棺木才这样窄小。

It was this amazing combination of abilities that made Cleopatra the most famous woman in history. It wasn’t her beauty. 正是这种种才华的惊人集合而并非她的美貌，才使得克莉奥帕卓成为了历史上最负盛名的女性。

I just don’t understand what it is that prevents so many Americans from being as happy as one might expect.我只是弄不懂到底是什么让如此多的美国人不象人们想象的那样高兴。

It was the way he said it more than what he said that made her displeased.

不是他说的内容，是他说的方式让她不高兴。

It was his courage rather than his skill that really struck me most.真正打动我的是他的勇气而不是技巧。

It is her sharp mind and debating skills that make Portia the heroine of the play.

是鲍西亚敏捷的头脑和出色的辩才让她成了这出戏中的英雄。

It was Joseph Banks who made Kew a centre of scientific and economic research.

正是约瑟夫·班克斯把皇家花园建成了一个科学和经济研究中心。

It’s the rising costs and falling demand that have forced the famous planes into early retirement.

成本上升，需求下降迫使这些驰名飞机提早停止客运。

It was his passion for sports that led him to take up competitive horse riding as one of his hobbies. 正是他对体育运动的热爱使得他把赛马比赛作为自己的爱好之一。

More important, it teaches us that it isn’t always what you have, but more often what you give that matters most in life. 更重要的是，它教给我们，并不总是你所拥有的，而常常是你的付出才使得人生举足轻重。

二、强调宾语：

It was some of the blood from that arm that I heard dripping from your roofs. 我听见从你房顶滴下来的正是从他手臂上流下的血。

It is this kind of exclusion of women that our society no longer accepts. 我们这个社会不再接受的就是这种对女性的排斥。

It is the teacher who taught me when I was a child that I am going to visit. 我打算去拜访的是我小时候教过我的那个老师。

Won’t you tell me what it is that you are bringing into the country so successfully? 请你告诉我你如此成功地带进这个国家的是什么好不好？

She had entered the school on a scholarship that term, and it was her he turned to next. 那个学期她进入这个学校获得了奖学金，下一个轮到问她了。

It is my mother that I’m worried about. 我担心的是妈妈。

It is the doll my sister wanted so badly for Christmas. 我妹妹圣诞节特别想要这个娃娃。

It was a mountain bike he received for his 15th birthday that changed him. 是他十五岁生日时收到的一辆山地车改变了他。

三、强调状语：

　１、时间状语：

It was at this dark time of my life that Herbert returned home one evening and told me that he was leaving me soon. 在我一生中这么悲伤的时候，赫伯特有天晚上回到了家，并且告诉我他很快就要离开我。

It was during his teasing that I always sensed his great, unspoken love.

是在他的使唤中我才一直感觉到他那巨大的、无言的爱。

It was only after having a boy of my own that I began to think a lot about the relationship between fathers and sons. 只是在我有了自己的男孩之后，我才更多地考虑父子之间的关系。

It was between 1830 and 1835 that the modern newspaper was born. 现代报纸的诞生是在1830－1835年间。

It was then that the true identity of this soldier was learned. 直到那时这个士兵的真实情况才被了解到。

It was only after this that women aged thirty and over got the vote. 只是从此之后，三十以及三十岁以上的妇女才有选举权。

It was when she was about to leave for work that the telephone rang.电话是在她刚要去上班的时候响的。

I really don’t know when it is that she is to arrive in Kun’ming.  我真的不知道他什么时候才能到昆明。

When was it that you met him in the library?　　你是什么时候在图书馆见到他的？

It was then that he started to study what has become a long time examination of Einstein’s brain. 他就是从那时开始研究的，研究涉及对爱因斯坦大脑进行长时间的检测。

Is it for two months that they have stayed here? 他们在这儿是不是呆了两个月？

It was a few weeks later after Wimbledon, she admitted, that she realized she no longer had the fire that had driven her to greatness. 在温布尔登失利几个星期后，格拉芙说她认为自己再也不会有使她取得如此了不起成绩的那股劲了。

When was it that Jim laid down his life for his country?　　吉姆是何时为国捐躯的？

It was not until fairly recently that this problem was solved, at least partially. 直到最近这个问题才得到解决，起码部分解决了。

It was in the 1940’s when he was already in his forties that he went to Yan’an. 他是在二十世纪四十年代四十多岁的时候去延安的。

It was only when Dad promised faithfully to reduce his account within two months that the storekeeper let us have another bag of flour on credit. 只有父亲诚恳地许诺两个月之内先还一些欠帐，店主才让我们再赊一袋面粉。

It was not till he had been dead for some years and agents came from the dealers in Paris and Berlin to look for any pictures which might still remain on the island, that they had any idea that among them had dwelt a man of consequence. 他去世几年之后，巴黎和柏林的那些商人代理来寻找可能仍然留在岛上的画，直到这时，他们才意识到他们中间曾经住过一位要人。

It was on one of these visits that he came to me and asked for the loan of two hundred francs. 是在其中的一次来访中他向我索要那笔二百英镑的贷款。

It was during that first year, 1979, that the demon crept into Mary’s life. 就在那头一年，也就是1979年，这个恶魔闯进了玛丽的生活。

It was at this time that he decided to become a physicist, to spend his life on the study of science.  就是在这个时候他决定当一名物理学家，把自己的一生贡献给科学研究。

However, it was while riding in a cross-country competition in May of 1995 that Reeve fell head-first from his horse and broke his neck. 然而，是在1995年5月的一次越野赛马比赛中他从马上摔下，头部着地，摔断了颈部。

　２、地点状语：

It was at this point that the word “Canada” entered the country’s history. 从此，Canada这个词就写进了这个国家的历史。

Where was it that you met Janice?　　你是在哪儿见到杰尼斯的？

It was in a log cabin in Kentucky and deep in the winter of 1809 that Abraham Lincoln came into the world.  是1809年隆冬在肯塔基州的一个原木小屋里，林肯来到了这个世界上。

It was in the school where he had studied that he began the important experiment. 他是在他曾上过学的那所学校开始那个重要实验的。

It was along the Mississippi River that Mark Twain spent much of his childhood. 马克·吐温是在密西西比河边度过大部分童年时光的。

It was in New Zealand that Elizabeth first met Mr. Smith. 是在新西兰伊丽莎白第一次遇见史密斯先生。

　３、原因状语：

It is mainly for this reason that the Brazilian government decided to have a new city built about 600 miles northwest of Rio de Janeiro. 主要是由于这个原因，巴西政府才决定在里约热内卢西北大约600英里的地方建一个新的城市。

It was only because it was small that he sold it.　　是因为小他才卖掉房子的。

Was it because it snowed last night that you didn’t come? 是因为昨晚下了雪你才没来吗？

Was it because it rained heavily last Sunday that he didn’t go to the party? 是由于上星期天下了大雨他才没参加宴会吗？

I don’t know if it was on account of Dan’s arguing with him, or if it was because there was no bread for dinner, that Dad was in a bad temper. 不知道是由于丹的争辩还是因为晚饭没有了面包父亲的脾气才那么坏。

And it was because I didn’t show up that she got married.　　是由于我没有出现她才结了婚。

　４、方式状语：

It is only from practice that knowledge begins.　　知识只能来自于实践。

It was through my awful memory for names that something unpleasant befell me not too long ago. 在枯涩的记忆中搜索人名的时候我才想起不久前发生了一件不愉快的事情。

It is by accident that Mary met her old teacher just now. 玛丽刚才遇见她的老老师实属偶然。

It was repairing the radio that the young man spent a whole morning in his room.   这个年轻人整个上午在房间里都在修收音机。

It is through the pain of meeting and working out problems that we learn. 有了遇到问题、解决问题的痛苦我们才学到了知识。

It is with a sense of sadness that they watch them fall. 他们看樱花谢去时心中有些伤感。

It was through my little sister that I got the exciting news. 我是从小妹那儿得到这个好消息的。

It was as a student there that he began to be active in the German revolutionary struggle. 在那儿当学生时，他就开始积极参与了德国的革命斗争。

It is in this way that they seem to get closer to their dream or passion each step of the way. 就是这样，他们仿佛向梦想或夙愿一步步地走近。

It was largely through his efforts that the Massachusetts Institute of Technology was born in 1861. 很大程度上是由于他的努力麻省理工学院才于1861年诞生。

It was through his display of determination that Superman and stem cell research will forevermore have a connection. 正是他表现出来的极大决心让人们把超人和干细胞研究永远联系在了一起。

It was through this personal tragedy that Reeve found a greater cause worth living and fighting for. 正是这个个人的不幸让利夫发现了一个更伟大、更值得他为之奋斗和追求的事业。

　５、对象状语：

It was to that girl that John gave the book.　约翰把书给的是那个女孩。

   6、范围状语：

It was from these slender indications of scholarship that Dr. Welldon drew the conclusion that I was worthy to pass into Harrow. 正是从这些表明我学业水平的蛛丝马迹中，韦尔登博士认定我有资格进哈罗公学念书。

   7、目的状语：

      It was to get my brakes repaired that I brought my car in, not to get the engine replaced!  我把车开过来是修理的，不是换机器的。

8、频率状语：

  It is twice that he has been to London. 他才去过伦敦两次。

  It is not often that people get a chance to watch a volcano from the very beginning.  遇见从头儿看火山喷发的机会并不多。

9、程度状语：

  She wants to know if it is 600 miles an hour that the newest plane can go.  她想知道这架最新式的飞机速度能否达到每小时六百英里。