1. It作先行主语和先行宾语的一些句型

　　She had said what it was necessary to say.

　　2. 强调句型

　　It is not who rules us that is important, but how he rules us.

　　3."All+抽象名词"或"抽象名词+itself"(very+形容词)

　　He was all gentleness to her.

　　4. 利用词汇重复表示强调

　　A crime is a crime a crime.

　　5. "something(much)of" 和"nothing(little)of""something　of"相当于"to some extent"，表示程度。在疑问句或条件从句中，则为"anything of"，可译为"有点"，"略微等。""译为毫无"，"全 无"。"much of"译为"大有"，"not much of"可译为"算不上"，"称不上"，"little of"可译为"几乎无"。 something like译为"有点像，略似。"

　　They say that he had no university education, but he seems to be something of a scholar.

　　6. 同格名词修饰是指of前后的两个名词都指同一个人或物，"of"以及它前面的名词构一个形容词短语，以修饰"of"后面的那个名词。如"her old sharper of a father"，可译为："她那骗子般的父亲"。

　　Those pigs of girls eat so much.

　　7. as…as…can(may)be

　　It is as plain as plain can be.

　　8. "It is in(with)…as in(with)"

　　It is in life as in a journey.

　　"not…any more than…"为："不能……，正如不能……"。

　　One cannot learn to sketch and express himself graphically only by reading about it any more than one can learn to swim while standing by the pool.

　　"Be that as it may"是"Let it be that as it may"的省略形式，是由"be"引起的另外一种假设结构，意思是"虽然如此，尽管这样"。

　　It is said that the nerve poison is the more primitive of the two, that the blood poison is, so to speak, a new product from an improved formula. Be that as it may, the nerve poison does its business with man far more quickly than the blood poison.