"he spent hours reading to the blind"
"he waited impatiently in the blind"
"they had just moved in and had not put up blinds yet"
"he wasn't sick--it was just a subterfuge" "the holding company was just a blind"
"a person is blind to the extent that he must devise alternative techniques to do efficiently those things he would do with sight if he had normal vision"
"blind to a lover's faults" "blind to the consequences of their actions"
"blind hatred" "blind faith" "unreasoning panic"
"The criminals were punished and blinded"
误 The blind needs our help.
正 The blind need our help.
那诗人双目失明。误 The poet is a blind.
正 The poet is blind.
析 blind前面加上定冠词the,泛指“盲人”,不能用来指单个的人。
他一只眼瞎了。误 He is blind in an eye.
正 He is blind in one eye.
正 He is blind of an eye.
正 He is blind of one eye.
析 表示一只眼睛失明时可以用be blind in one eye 或 be blind of an eye。用in 时,其后一般接one eye; 用of时,其后可接one eye,也可接an eye。
他左眼瞎了。误 He is blind of the left eye.
正 He is blind in the left eye.
析 具体表达(左、右)哪个眼瞎了,介词要用in,不能用of。
她从小眼睛就瞎了。误 Her left eye became blind when she was a girl.
正 She became〔went〕 blind when she was a girl.
析 blind用作表语时,其主语只能是人,不能是eye。
他对自己的缺陷视而不见。误 He is blind of his own defects.
正 He is blind to his own defects.
析 在be blind, turn a blind eye 等之后都接to,表示“对…视而不见”。
The blind is my uncle.误 盲人是我的叔父。
正 那盲人是我的叔父。
析 the blind在一定上下文中也可指单个人,这时谓语动词是单数形式,此处的blind是名词。而在表示“一类人”的the blind中blind是形容词。
