Do you know Candy?

今天和大家討論用Do you know?的問(wèn)句，Do you know?就是問(wèn)別人：‘你知不知道?你懂不懂?’如果問(wèn)你懂不懂煮飯，可以說(shuō)：Do you know how to cook? 你知不知道那條路?Do you know the way?　或者要問(wèn)你認(rèn)不認(rèn)識(shí)一個(gè)叫肯蒂的女生，可以說(shuō)：Do you know Candy? 如果你不認(rèn)識(shí)她，可回答：I don't know her.，如果你跟她很熟，可以說(shuō)：I know her very well.，如果只是泛泛之交，可以說(shuō)：I'm acquainted with her.。

對(duì)話

A: Do you know Candy?

B: Candy? Does she have curly blond hair and a really beautiful face?

A: Yes, that's her.

B: Yes, I know her very well. She was my girl friend during my first year in university.

A: Really? Candy told me that she's only 19 and she's your boss' daughter.

B: Oh, Candy Cooper! My mistake. I thought you meant Candy Rose.

甲：你認(rèn)不認(rèn)識(shí)肯蒂?

乙：肯蒂?是否那個(gè)金色卷發(fā)的漂亮女子?

甲：對(duì)，就是她。

乙：是，我跟她很熟絡(luò)，她是我大學(xué)一年級(jí)時(shí)的女友。

甲：真的嗎?肯蒂告訴我她只有19歲，是你老板的女兒。

乙：噢，肯蒂吉譜!我搞錯(cuò)了，我以為你指的是肯蒂羅絲。

某乙聽(tīng)某甲談到一位金發(fā)美女肯蒂，以為是自己的舊女友說(shuō)：I know her very well.(我和她很熟絡(luò))。假如某甲帶笑問(wèn)道：In the biblical sense?　讀者知道是什么意思嗎? Biblical即‘《圣經(jīng)》(Bible)的’，例如biblical language是 ‘《圣經(jīng)》的語(yǔ)言’。In the biblical sense?等于說(shuō)‘是否《圣經(jīng)》里那個(gè)意思?’。

在《圣經(jīng)》和其它古籍里，know字有‘和...有性關(guān)系’的意思。讀《御用圣經(jīng).路加福音》第一章，你就會(huì)看到天使對(duì)圣母瑪利亞說(shuō)：You will conceive in your womb and bring forth a son, and shall call his name Jesus(你會(huì)懷孕，誕下麟兒，取命為耶穌)。瑪利亞回答說(shuō)：How can this be, since I do not know a man?(這怎么可能呢?我沒(méi)有跟男人親熱過(guò))。今天，英語(yǔ)國(guó)家的人說(shuō)跟某某有性關(guān)系，有時(shí)就會(huì)用開(kāi)玩笑口吻說(shuō)：I know him / her in the biblical sense。

留意I know her和I know of her很不同。I know her是 ‘我認(rèn)識(shí)她’，I know of her.　則是 ‘我知道她這個(gè)人’或‘我聽(tīng)說(shuō)過(guò)好這個(gè)人’。

說(shuō)和某人交朋友，英文是to make friends with somebody，那復(fù)數(shù)形式的friends不可改為friend。為什么和一個(gè)人交朋友，都要用復(fù)數(shù)形式?原因很簡(jiǎn)單：friends　除了指對(duì)方，還包括你自己。交朋友是至少兩個(gè)人之間的事。I should like to make friends with you. 即 ‘我想和你交朋友’。