1. 表示“对……有益”“使……受益”,是及物动词,其后可直接跟宾语。如:
Sea air will benefit you. 海风将对你有益。
What he said benefited all the students. 他说的话使所有的学生受了益。
表示“受益于”,是不及物动词,其后通常接介词 by 或from。如:
We all benefited from her success. 我们大家都得益于她的成功。
Will the ADS patients benefit from [by] the new drug? 这种药对艾滋病人有效吗?
2. 用作名词,注意以下各句与动词和介词搭配:
Did you get much benefit from this? 你从中受益不少吧?
He had the benefit of a good education. 他得益于良好的教育。
The benefit of writing with chalk is that I can easily fix a mistake.
用粉笔写的好处是很容易改错。
Morning exercises benefit old people.
晨练对老年人有益。
Even without the benefit of radio and MTV, Lind was a hit.
虽然当时没有广播与音乐电视台(MTV)的帮助,但是林德却还是很热门的歌手。
We do not get any pecuniary benefit from the work.
我们没从这项工作中得到任何金钱上的好处。
Besides, many other countries including the U.S. have benefited from his work.
除此之外,包括美国在内的很多国家也从中受益。
※He who receives a benefit should never forget it; he who bestows one should never remember it. 受惠不忘,施恩不记。
※How differences between men and women might be used for our mu-tual benefit in everything from our relation with one another to a better undrestanding of how our brains work.——Delia M.Rios .American writer男女间的差异在各方面——从人际关系到加深对脑力工作方式的理解——使双方都受益。美国作家 里奥斯.D.M.