② I don’t feel like drinking the water from this well.
4.① Cotton played an important part in Industrial Revolution.
② The most important thing about cotton in history is the important part that it played in Industrial Revolution.
5.① I have done a little to help you.
② I hope the little that I’ve been able to do has been of some use to you.
以上的②句中的划线部分都是由于有一个定语限定而转化为“特指”。
另外，在一些限定词的后面只能接泛指的名词，如：a lot of, plenty of, dozens of, hundreds of等。然而，有些却可以增加一个 “of”，便只能后接特指的成分：
后接表“泛指”的名词 后接表“特指”的名词/代词
some (students) some of (the students) a good many (people) a good many of (the people)
most most of (us) a dozen a dozen of (these apples) five hundred five hundred of (them)
(二)“特指”转化为“泛指”
1.When the spaceship traveled above, a new-looking earth appeared before us, an earth that we had never seen before. 当宇宙飞船在上空运行时，一个全新的地球出现在我们面前，以往我们都不曾看过。
2.It is a world of wonders, a world where anything can happen.
3.It’s really fun to walk alone with a full moon hanging in the sky.
4.Having been overseas for half a century, he returned and found himself in a brand-new China.
本来“the earth/ the world/ the moon/ China”都是特指的，但是，如果增加一些修饰成分之后，指不同时期、不同角度看到的或不同形状的“地球、世界、月亮、中国”的话，它们就转化为泛指了。
5.I knew a John Lennon, but not the famous one.
John Lennon是一个著名歌手，当然是特指。句中的a John Lennon= another person whose name happened to be John Lennon, 是泛指。
6.① He, who led the USA through these years, was shot on April 14, 1865 at a theatre in Washington, D.C.
② He who doesn’t reach the Great Wall is not a true man. 不到长城非好汉。
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