弱势判断句

句型［主语+seem等感觉动词+表语］

1. My companion looked ashamed. "Well," he said, "you were right…"

2. The situation seemed quite encouraging. 3. Your sentence doesn't sound right.

4. She appeared quite touched at the words. 5. It tastes sweet.

6. The country seemed to be going to the dogs. War with the South or secession was vaguely looking in the distance.

句型［主句+as if/as though+从句（主语+虚拟式谓语）］

1. You spoke as if you had been here before. 2. I feel as if I were ten years younger.

3. It almost seemed as if the good man were trying to teach us all he knew at this last lesson.

4. …his exposed throat looked as if a halter would have done it good.

[注] 在as if 后面可以直接跟不定式，这是一种间缩的用法，如：He opened his lips as if to say something.

其次，在as if后面的谓语动词也有人用现在时的，如：It looks as if our side is (或were) going to win.

句型［主语+may (+not)+be+表语+虚拟式谓语）］［Perhaps等副词+主语+谓语+其他］

1. It may (not) be true. 2. "This fellow" he thought, "may not be a scamp…"

3. What month is this?-Maybe it's July. 4. Perhaps you are right.

5. Perhaps she is ill. 6. It will probably be fine tomorrow. 7. Possibly it is true.

句型［主语+ be+it is said,/as it were,等+表语］

1. she is, it is said (或they say), the best pupil in the class.

2. People in that village, it is said (或they say), are all kind-hearted.

3. He is not equal to the task, as it were. 4. He is, as it were, a walking dictionary.

5. With the illiterate audience, he felt himself as it were casting pearls before swine.

6. It isn't a very good suggestion, to say the least of it.

[注] 有两个词组容易与as it were混淆，就是as it is, as it was。这两个词组必须用在和它们的时态一致的句中。意思是"照现在的样子"，"照当时的样子"，但都引申译为"事实上"，如：It is impossible to carry out the plan as it is.

句型［主语+ be+ said to be/so-called/, what is called,+表语］

1. He is said to be an excellent Chinese scholar. 2. This is said to be the finest park in shanghai.

3. That is so-called civilized world. That is so-called naturalism.

4. He is what is called, a poet. He is, what is called, a living dictionary.

注释判断句

句型［被说明的部分，+that is (i.e.),/that is to say,/namely (viz),/in other words+说明部分]

1. Mr. Green came to see me not long ago, that is, only last week.

2. We-that is to say, John and I-intend to resign.

3. Rules of grammar cannot be profitably studied in the abstract-that is to say, without examples.

4. He is an outstanding specialist, that is to say, he is both red and expert.

5. We have five senses, namely, sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch.

6. A man should never be shamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

7. I do not know Mr. Flynn, i.e., do not know him well enough to say if he is absolutely reliable.

句型［被说明的部分，+to be more exact,/or more correctly,/or rather+说明部分］

1. Three weeks tomorrow, to be more exact (or more correctly), the 10th of May is my birthday.

2. This is a pillar, or more correctly, a column. 3. It is a hut or, to be more exact, a cowshed.

4. His theory, or rather, hypothesis, was not unobjectionable.

5. We got home late last night, or rather, early this morning.

正反判断句

句型［主语+be+not+表语A,+ but+表语B］/［主语+be+表语B+and (或but) not+表语A］

1. I am very ill, not bodily, but mentally.

2. What I admire in Columbus is not his having discovered a world, but his having gone to search for it on the faith of an opinion.

3. The tragedy is not in not knowing, but in not knowing that you don't know.

4. The Marxist-Leninist theory is not a dogma, but a guide to action.

5. He is an ordinary worker, and not a cadre.

6. It is yours, and not mine. (=it is not mine, but yours.)

句型［(It is) not…that (who)…, but…that (who)…］

1. (It is) Not that I dislike the work, but that I have no time.

2. Not that we are afraid of difficulties, but that they are afraid of us.

3. It is not heroes that make history, but history that makes heroes, and that, consequently, it is not heroes who create people, but the people who create heroes and move history onward.

句型［So far from being+表语，主语+谓语+其他］

1. So far from being a help, he was hindrance. 2. So far from being true, the news is false.

3. So far from being ashamed of it, he glories in it.

[注] 在一般陈述句中仅用far from也可以表示一正一反的意义, 如: Far from praising him, I must positively blame him.

句型［主语+seem等感觉动词+表语，+ but+in reality/ in fact/ in essence+…］

1. That sounds all right, but in reality it is not.

2. This may seem a bad thing, but in reality it is a good thing

3. He looks ignorant, but in fact he is very clever.

4. The two things though similar in form are different in essence.

5. He appears to be well, but really he is rather ill.

6. He thinks himself as wise as Solomon, but in reality he is a complete fool.

[注] instead of可以用来表示正反判断，如：We must work hard instead of spending our time idly.