In Articles 1we looked at the 3 golden rules of articles:

在《冠詞1》我們談了關(guān)于冠詞的三個黃金守則。

1? People’s jobs have a/an. He’s an architect.

人們的職業(yè)前要帶a/an。

2? Singular countable nouns have an article. That’s the woman I met last week.

單數(shù)可數(shù)名詞要帶冠詞。

3? Things in general –no article. Cats like mice.

概括性的事物沒有冠詞。

Here we look at some other rules for the use of articles.

今天我們談其他幾個關(guān)于使用冠詞的規(guī)則。

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Special places

特殊的場合和地點

·? My son’s at university but my daughter still goes to school.

·? He was sent to prison for 10 years.

·? Now that winter’s here I find it difficult to get out of bed.

·? I go to work by bus but I go home on foot.

In expressions with a number of places there is no article after a preposition.

在表達(dá)地點的時候，介詞后面是不跟冠詞的。
These places include：

這些地點包括: to/at school, to/at university/college, to/in church, to/in/out of prison, to/in hospital, to/in/out of bed, to/at work, at home.

NOTE: While we say ‘go to school’and ‘go to work’etc, the expression ‘go home’has neither ‘the’nor ‘to’.

我們說go to school和go to work等等，go home是既沒有the 也不帶to的

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Transport

交通

·? I go to work by bus but I go home on foot.

·? I hate travelling by train.

Modes of transport (by bus, by train, by car, by plane, by bicycle) don’t have an article. Notice that on foot is different.

交通方式不帶冠詞。

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Geography

地理

No article

不帶冠詞

–continents 洲(Africa, Asia etc.) countries 國家(France, Germany, Slovakia etc - but the Slovak Republic, the United States, the United Kingdom) towns & cities城鎮(zhèn)和城市(Bratislava, London etc.) lakes 湖泊(Lake Victoria, Lake Balaton etc.)universities (Oxford University, Nitra University etc.)

With ‘the’

帶the的

–seas & oceans大海和海洋(the Atlantic, the Mediterranean etc.) mountain ranges 山群(the Himalayas, the Tatras) rivers河流(the Amazon, the Danube etc.)

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Other expressions

其他表達(dá)

·? I don’t watch television very often but I listen to the radio all the time.

·? I’ve got a headache.

·? I’ve got a stomach-ache

·? I’ve got a cold.

BUT

·? I’ve got ‘flu.

·? I’ve got earache.

·? I’ve got toothache.

Other illnesses have no article.

其他疾病不帶冠詞。