主动语态表示被动意义 (不能用被动语态的若干情况)

常见的有以下几种情况：

一、不及物动词不及物动词短语和没有被动语态，如rise, happen, succeed, remain, lie,disappear, last, take place, break out, belong to，等。如：

       Great changes have taken place here since 1990. 自1990年以来这里发生了巨大的变化. 

误：Great changes have been taken place here since 1990.

       After the fire, nothing remained. 那场大火之后，什么也没留下来了。

误：After the fire, nothing was remained.

二、某些系动词，表示事物特性的时候，如：look，sound，smell，taste，feel 等用主动语态形式表示被动意义。如：

This kind of cloth feels very soft.            误：This kind of cloth is felt very soft. 

The music sounds beautiful.                误：The music is sounded beautiful. 

The meat tastes terrible.            误：The meat is tasted terrible.

三、表示某些“需要、要求”意义的动词，如need、want、require，deserve等后的动名词的主动语态形式表示被动意义。如：

The bike needs repairing=The bike needs to be repaired.　　

　　The story requires reading carefully. =The story requires to be read carefully.

四、形容词worth后接的动名词用主动语态形式表示被动意义。

　　The book is well worth reading.=The book is quite worthy ofbeing read./ The book is worthy to be read.

　　The clock isn’t worth repairing.

五、作表语的形容词，如difficult，easy，hard，nice，possible，impossible等之后的不定式作状语时，用主动语态形式表示被动意义。此时，不定式表示的动作与其主语一般为动宾关系。如：

Is English difficult to learn?

The maths problem is not easy to work out.

I think apples are nice to eat. 

六、某些动词，如：lock，open，sell，wash等，特别是与副词badly，easily，well等连用时，(表示事物特性)常常用主动语态形式表示被动意义。如：

The door won’t lock. 这门锁不上。

This kind of colour TV sells well. 

This kind of color TV is sold well.

　　Does the cloth wash well？ 这布耐洗吗？

　　The shop opens at eight in the morning.

七、不定式作定语，与被修饰动词的名词或代词构成被动关系，表示被动意义。如：

　　I have lots of homework to do today. 今天我有许多家庭作业要做。

　　I want to get something to drink. 我想弄点喝的。

　　Would you like something to eat？ 你想要点吃的吗？

       With much homework to do, I can’t go out with you.

注意比较下面两句：I’m busy today. I have a lot of clothes to wash. (有衣服洗，但是自己洗）

“Tom, I’ll do some washing. Do you have anything to be washed?” said Mom.（有什么要洗，别人洗）