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take turns之后不可以接動詞不定式嗎？
——兼談take turns的用法
■本站特約作者 李 翔
有網友在“英語答疑網”提出如下問題：
牛津高中英語模三p9有這樣一句話：
The other group members could take turns narrating and holding the pictures. 另外一組的成員可以輪流敘述和舉畫。
句中的take turns后面接的是現在分詞，但我的筆記上有take turns后接不定式的用法（沒有當時抄例句）。
請問take turns到底是接不定式還是現在分詞？若兩者都可接，它們有區別嗎？
“英語答疑網”網名號為my315的認證專家作出如下解答：
take turns 后面可以接動詞的ing形式和“at +動詞的ing形式”,表示“輪流做某事”的意思。例如：
He and his wife take turns washing the dishes. 他和他的妻子依次洗刷盤子。（《英漢雙解當代美國英語學習詞典》第1638頁）
She and Mark took turns at feeding it . 她和馬克輪流給它喂食。（《張道真高級英語詞典》第1607頁）
我查閱了十多部英美和我國編寫的英英詞典、英漢詞典和英語語法、用法專著，還沒有發現take turns 后面接動詞不定式的例句。
(原文見http://ask.yygrammar.com/q-640.html)
實際上，my315老師的看法還是有市場的，例如李在銘著的《現代英語慣用法詞典》(現代出版社1995年5月第1版)P752就認為：
take turns at doing something (輪流作某事)一語不可以改為take turns to do something。
另外，張道真編著的《現代英語用法詞典》(重排本) (外語教學與研究出版社1994年10月第1版)P 1615盡管沒有明確表示take turns之后不能接to do something，但所有的例句沒有一個是take turns后接to do something的。不知是當時是確實take turns之后不能接to do something，還是認定take turns之后不能接to do something，所以故意沒有收錄。例如：
take turns 輪流(做某事)
I’ll take turns with you at cutting the hedge.
The tree brother took turns at looking after their sick mother.
The lawyers take turns at reading the Bible.
We took turns in guarding the treasure.
Since we took turns driving, we didn’t find the trip too tiring.
而實際上，現在take turns之后既可以接(at / in / on) doing something, 也可以接to do something。請看例證：
1.《朗文當代高級英語辭典》(英英•英漢雙解)(外語教學與研究出版社2004年7月第1版)P2163
take turns 又作take it in turns BrE if many people take turns dong work or playing a game, they each do it one after the other in order to share work or play fairly. 輪流，依次。 You’ll have to take turns to be captain of the team.
take turns doing sth.
We took turns doing the driving on the way up to Canada .
take turns to do sth.
brainstorming sessions where we took turns to throw in ideas.
2. Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English (English۰Chinese) (Fourth Edition)(光盤版)turn2詞條：take turns 又作take it in turns BrE
take turns doing sth.
The students were taking turns reading aloud.
take turns in doing sth. BrE
We took turns in pushing the bike along.
take turns to do sth.
Dan and I usually take turns to cook.
3.《牛津高階英漢雙解詞典》(第六版)(商務印書館 2004年 8月第2版)P 1903:
take turns (in sth/to do sth) ( BrE also take it in turns ) if people take turns or take it in turns to do sth, they do it one after the other to make sure it is done fairly.
The male and female birds take turns in sitting on the eggs.
We took it in turns to do the housework.
4.《牛津高階英漢雙解詞典》(第7版) (商務印書館 2009年 4月第3版) P 2175:
take turns in sth/to do sth ( BrE also take it in turns ) if people take turns or take it in turns to do sth, they do it one after the other to make sure it is done fairly.
The male and female birds take turns in sitting on the eggs.
We took it in turns to do the housework.
5. Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary 8th edition(© Oxford University Press, 2010)
take turns (in sth/to do sth) ( BrE also take it in turns )
if people take turns or take it in turns to do sth, they do it one after the other to make sure it is done fairly.
The male and female birds take turns in sitting on the eggs.
We take it in turns to do the housework.
The kids took turns on the swing.
6. John Sinclair《COBUILD 英漢雙解詞典》(上海譯文出版社 2002年11月第1版) P2107: If two or more people take turns to do something or take it in turns to do something, they do it one after the other, especially this is fair.
You can take turns paying for evening functions…
The protesters are taking it in turns to chain themselves to the perimeter fence…
They took turns at the same typewriter.
7.《柯林斯COBUILD高階英漢雙解學習詞典》(外語教學與研究出版社 2011年7月第1版) P2862: 39. If two or more people take turns to do something or in British English take it in turns to do something, they do it one after the other several times, rather doing it together.
We took turns to drive the car…
Ted and I took it in turns to go into hospital and sit with Emma.
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