PETS－2語法講解(243)

　　He signaled to Tom to pull over.
　　對話
　　Carol: Dinah was really annoyed with her husband Tom last week.
　　Jim: What was it this time?
　　Carol: They were driving to the supermarket and he went through a set of traffic lights just
　　as they were changing from amber to red.
　　Jim: Naughty boy, but nothing unusual.
　　Carol: Ah, but he didn't see the police patrol car not far behind.
　　Jim: What did the policeman do?
　　Carol: He signaled to Tom to pull over and when they were both parked, made Tom sit in his
　　police car and gave him a lecture on traffic safety. And then he made him pay the maximum fine.
　　Jim: No wonder Dinah was mad at him.
　　卡洛：黛娜上星期對丈夫湯姆十分不滿。
　　吉姆：這次是爲了什麽？
　　卡洛：他們開車去超級市場。湯姆在交通燈由黃轉紅的時候，直闖過去。
　　吉姆：真是壞孩子，但沒什麽不尋常。
　　卡洛：湯姆沒看到車後不遠処有一輛警方巡邏車。
　　吉姆：警察怎麽処理？
　　卡洛：他示意要湯姆把汽車開到一旁，待雙方停下來後，就叫湯姆上警車，在交通安
　　全問題上，好好教訓了他一頓，還要湯姆繳交額罸款。
　　吉姆：那怪不得那黛娜會生湯姆的氣了。
　　He signaled to Tom to pull over是‘他示意要湯姆把車開到一旁’。Signal是‘信號’。駕駛汽車，必須懂得一些通用的手勢：Drivers must know certain hand signals。例如：(1) The driver made a signal with his arm for a right turn（司機做了個準備右轉的手勢）。(2) The policeman gave Tom a signal to pull over。Signal作動詞，可以及物(transitive)，也可以不及物(intransitive)，即其後可直接受詞(object)，也可不帶受詞。He signaled to Tom to pull over，是signal的不及物用法；He signaled Tom to pull over，則是及物用法。The driver signaled to show that he was turning right也是說‘司機做了個準備右轉的手勢’。交通燈(traffic light)儅然也是一種信號，所以a traffic light有時叫做a traffic signal。這兩個詞用複數形式也可以，例如：The traffic light(s) had failed（交通燈壞了）。隨便一點的英文往往衹說the lights，例如：The lights tell cars or walkers to go, get ready to stop, or stop（交通燈指示車輛或行人前行、準備停下或停下來）。交通燈的三種顔色，英文叫green（綠色）、amber（琥珀黃色）、red（紅色），例如：(1) The lights have changed from green to amber（交通燈由綠色轉爲黃色）。(2) The lights were (on) red（交通燈亮起紅燈）。不守法闖紅燈，叫做to jump a light/the lights。