主要用于介紹或列舉事項(xiàng),意為“如下”,其中的 follows必須帶有詞尾 –s,在句子可以用作以下成分: 1. 用作表語(yǔ)。如: My main objections fire as follows: First of all no proper budget has been drawn up. Secondly, there is no guarantee that... 我主要的反對(duì)意見(jiàn)如下:首先,沒(méi)有制訂適當(dāng)?shù)念A(yù)算;其次,沒(méi)有保證…… The main events were as follows: first, the president's speech, secondly the secretary's reply and thirdly, the chairman's summing-up. 主要活動(dòng)如下:第1項(xiàng),總裁講話;第2項(xiàng),秘書(shū)做解答;第3項(xiàng),主席做總結(jié)。 2. 用作狀語(yǔ)。如: Just before the battle the general addressed his army as follows. 就在戰(zhàn)斗打響之前,將軍對(duì)部隊(duì)講了下面這番話。 Expenditure on the project breaks down as follows: wages 10m, plant 4m, raw materials 5m. 該工程費(fèi)用開(kāi)支可分成如下幾部分:工資1,000萬(wàn)英鎊,廠房設(shè)備400萬(wàn)英鎊,原料500萬(wàn)英鎊。 比較下面的同義句: His explanation is as follows.=He explains it as follows. 他的解釋如下。