正在学习英语的同学，你有时是否会觉得Native的表达方式有点含糊其词？其实不是这样的，他们在说英语的时候，会加入一些虚词，让句子表达更地道更自然。扎克老师今天就跟同学们讲讲：英语中虚词的使用。

在我们尝试说英语的时候，很多同学尝试把内容讲得十分详细，把肚子里的墨水都想一一倒出来，说个清楚。但是殊不知其实有时候我们并不需要较真哦，因为你可能会变成下面对话的样子！

Marie: So, what are your plans for tomorrow?

Martin: First, I’m going into the city centre. I need to buy a shirt and some toothpaste, then at 10.30 I’m meeting William Bukowski for coffee at the café on Gloucester Square. What about you?

Marie: I have to spend two hours working in the morning, then I’m meeting six old friends. We’re going to go for a drink, then to an Italian restaurant where they serve 44 different kinds of pizza.

Martin: Really? I love Italian food. I especially like caprese salad, spaghetti vongole, pizza romana, ravioli, tiramisu, panna cotta…

怎么样，感觉是不是特别像机器人对话，一点都不自然。

其实在我们日常生活中有特别多的虚词使我们的句子变得更通顺流畅，而且还特别简单，分分钟解决词汇量不足的问题，今天就跟着扎克老师一起学习吧！

第 一组：‘thing’or ‘things’

表示某些特定的物品

Give me that thing to clean the window.

Don’t forget to take your things with you.

‘stuff’ 也是相似的用法. 但是请记住‘stuff’是不可数名词哦！

We’re only going for two days, so we don’t need much stuff.

Every time I move apartments, I throw loads ofstuffaway.

另外‘thing’ and‘stuff’,都可以表示你将要去做的事情

I have to go to thatthingtonight.

I have a lot of stuffto do next week.

当讲到数量的时候，我们同样可以用虚词去省略一些其实并不重要的精细数据

‘lots of’, ‘loads of’, ‘a few’, ‘a couple’, etc.

They sent me 34 emails yesterday.

You can say:

They sent me loads of emails yesterday.

Instead of saying:

I saw six of my old school friends last night.

You can say:

I saw a few of my old school friends last night.

And, instead of saying:

I have to finish three more things, and then we can go.

You can say:

I have to finish a couple more things, and then we can go.

当你想表示某一类的东西，不需要一一列举，可以讲出有代表性的一两个之后再接下面的表达

…and that kind of thing

…and things like that

…and so on

…or something like that

So, your friend might say:

We went to the beach, did some sightseeing and things like that.

这时候我们再来看看这个对话。

Marie: So, what are your plans for tomorrow?

Martin: I’m going into the city centre to buy some stuff, then I’m meeting a friend for a coffee. You?

Marie: I have to do some work in the morning, then I’m meeting a few old friends later. We’re going for a drink, then to an Italian restaurant where they have lots of different kinds of pizza.

Martin: Really? I love Italian food, especially the pasta. I really like spaghetti vongole and things like that.

是不是自然流畅了很多呢？

佛山的同学们，把今天的虚词用法学起来，让英语表达更地道！