你可能不知道bear关于“生育”的诸多语法用法

1. bear表示“生育”之义，其过去分词既可以是borne,也可以是born。但borne只用于完成时或带be的被动语态里。例如：

I feel as if I had been born again.

我有一种再生之感。

That woman has borne two children.

那个妇女已经生了两个孩子。

The child was borne by that woman.

这个孩子是那个妇女生育的。

不可说：The child was born by that woman.

但可说：The child was born to that woman.

2. bear后面可接双宾语。例如：

 His wife bore him a good child.

His wife has borne him a good child.

这两句都意为：“他妻子给他生了个好孩子。”

不可说：His wife bore a good child for [to] him.

His wife has borne a good child for [to] him.

3.表示“出生”、“出身”时用born，后面的介词可用in, of, from, with, to, out of, into等。例如：

He was born in 1987.

他生于1987年。

He was born of [in] a wealthy parents.

他出生于富贵人家。

She was born to [of] wealthy parents.

她出身富贵人家。

Sometimes when a married couple can’t have children, they adopt a child who was born out of wedlock.

有时候已婚夫妇不能生育子女，他们就收养无法定父母的孩子。

She was born to an intellectual family 41 years ago.

41年前她生于一个知识分子家庭。

The twins were born from healthy family.

生这双胞胎的父母有着健康的体魄。

He was born into an aristocratic family of statesmen.

他生于一个政治家辈出的贵族之家。

4.be born后可接形容词，名词，v-ed,v-ing,从句，甚至不定式。例如：

Age has nothing to do with years. Some are born old, some never grow old.

年龄与岁月无关，有人生来就老气横秋，有人却永远不会老。

No man is born a genius.

没有人生来就是天才。

The child is born crying.孩子呱呱坠地。

He was born to rule.

他生来就是当统治者的。

5.be born yesterday意思是“容易上当受骗的”“无经验的”。通常用于否定句（或具有否定意义的句子中）或疑问句中，而且只用过去时。例如：

Were you born yesterday?

难道你真的不懂吗？

You can’t fool me. I wasn’t born yesterday.

你骗不了我，我又不是小娃娃。

6.bear习惯上不能用来表示具体的生孩子（生男生女）

通常不说：His wife bore a boy last night.

应说：His wife had a boy last night.

His wife gave a birth to a boy last night.

His wife was delivered of a boy last night.

His wife was bought to bed of a boy last night.

这几句都意为：“他妻子昨天晚上生了个男孩。”

但笼统地 生孩子，可以用bear。例如：

A woman bears a child.

女人生孩子。

7. 下面几句话都可以说：

He was born an artist.

He is a born artist.

He is an artist born.

这几句都意为：“他是个天生的艺术家[画家]。”

8.当主语是植物时，bear意为“结（果）”。例如：

Peach trees have already begun to hear fruit.

桃树已经开始结桃了。

9.bear作“忍耐”、“容忍”解时，常与can，could连用，多用于否定句和疑问句中。后面可接不定式或v-ing形式。例如：

Oh, I can’t bear to think of it.

啊，我简直不忍心去想它。

注：①bear后面既可跟人或情形，也可跟抽象意义的名词；bear with只可跟人或情形（此时与bear通用），不可跟抽象意义的名词。例如：

I can’t bear (with) the naughty boy.

我们不能容忍那个淘气的男孩。

I couldn’t bear (with) the surrounding there at first.

首先我无法忍受那里的环境。

I cannot bear that idea.

我不能容忍那种想法。

②bear后的v-ing形式可用被动语态。例如：

She can’t bear being laughed at.

她不能忍受别人的取笑。

The examples are perhaps too well known to bear being repeated.

这些例子也许大家都很熟悉了，就不必再重复了。