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asher626 发表于 2011-1-22 14:54

~HELP~ want to do v.s. want doing

I used to think "want to do" is a common collocation.
But today I saw another usage of "want", see it in the sentence followed.

"I don't want my kids learning Chinese because that's a communist country."

Anyone could show me some details about a) the difference between "want to do" and "want doing"; b) how to judge which should be accepted in certain occasions.
Thank you all~

tingroom 发表于 2011-1-25 09:23

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    want to do想做某事,want意思是“想要”,主语常是人
    want doing 需要做某事,want意思是“需要、要求”,主语常是物
    want to do很常见,无需举例。下面那种用法,给你一个例句:
    The plants want watering daily.这些花草得天天浇水。

asher626 发表于 2011-1-25 10:42

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    谢谢tingroom的回答,这个用法我在baidu里也查过,但是不大符合我提出疑问的句子。

你给的解释是,want doing的主语是物,plants want watering,而我句子中是“I don't want my kids learning...” 这是CNNSN里面的原句,我反复听了好多遍,应该不会错。这个又如何解释?

tingroom 发表于 2011-1-25 11:18

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    want doing 是正想要做的事情,正在做的。

asher626 发表于 2011-1-25 12:32

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    这么看的话,那这句话的意思是

Perhaps his kids have learned Chinese for a while, and are learning these days, he just don't want them to learn. It's more like a sort of regret that he could have not let them learn? or he might do something to stop his kids?

tingroom 发表于 2011-1-25 12:57

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    她不想让他们继续学习了。

asher626 发表于 2011-1-25 13:36

thank you!

OLady 发表于 2011-1-25 14:39

want to do想做某事,want意思是“想要”,主语常是人

want doing 需要做某事,want意思是“需要、要求”,主语常是物,是第三方,he, she, it. My kids。

want to do很常见,无需举例。下面那种用法,给你一个例句:

The plants want watering daily.这些花草得天天浇水。

上面这段want to do 和want doing  的区别是copy 百度的内容,记住一个主语是人,一个主语是物就容易使用了。

表达我想做什么事就用want to do

表示觉得某物需要被怎么样,就用want doing

asher626 发表于 2011-1-25 23:27

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感谢LS的先
急于回帖的心情可以理解
但是百度人人都会用
很抱歉地怀疑一下 你是否看清楚了我的疑问和例句

cherryqin 发表于 2011-8-31 15:07

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"I don't want my kids learning Chinese because that's a communist country."
“我不想让我的孩子们学习中文,因为这是一个共产主义国家。”
从含义上来说:
此处:want sb. doing sth. 为不希望做某事的意思,表达了说话人的一种愿望。
而want (sb.) to do sth. 想要某人做某事,更偏向于表达说话人的一种邀请或命令。
从形式语法上来说:
如果某事已经处于正在进行中了,就用第一种语法。如果述说的事情还未实行,就用第二中说法。
另外,至于所谓的主语为人,还是物的区别,只有want doing sth. 的主语可以是人 也可以是物。而第二中语法的主语只能为人。
希望能帮到你,这只是我个人的见解。

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