[영어 전치사 연구] 1. about

영어 전치사 연구

 

1. About - <here and there>

 

① 장소

The papers were scattered about the room.

The children are left their toys lying about the room.

Don't leave bottles, tins, and papers about the park.

hundreds of people were walking about the street.

Fifty or sixty people gathered about the table.

The street about the castle are full of the places of historic interest.

This plant grows in the meadows about oxford.

He goes about the country lecturing on the evils of drink.

The nature of his business enable him to get about world a great deal.

Children like to run about the park.

 

② 수치

He came at about 9:30

They are about 3 feet long.

There are about 200 pages in the book.

He is about 50 years old.

 

③ 추상적 속성

what's the best thing about the car.

What's your opinion about his work.

Is there something suspicious about his story?

Something about him seems strange.

There is sense of humor about him.

There is something about him that I like.

He is about on important piece of work.

I must be about my father's business.

He is angry about Tom.

Are you pleased about your job?

I feel guilty about leaving the kids behind.

 

④행동 및 과정

The train is about the leave.

I was about to go out

The concert is about to begin.

The dinner is about cooked.

The building about built.

The work about finished.

 

⑤ 부사적 용법

- about 뒤에는 당연하고, 쉽게 예상되는 것.

 

There is no one about (me)

The Cholera is about ~

He has left his paper about ~

The drivers slow down when they see children about ~

He fell down and tore his trousers about ~

He got drunk and hit his wife about ~

He is always fooling about ~

We have to hang about for a while.

She just loafed about for two years.

 

about : ~ 대해서, 여기저기에, 범위는 "of" 보다 넓고 세부적이다.