有这样一道题，答案是 around which还是 around where，或是……？
A man with a bleeding hand hurried in and asked, “Is there a hospital around ______ I can get some medicine for my wounded hand?”
A. that B. which
C. where D. what
【陷阱】容易误选 B，认为 around 是介词，选 which 用以代替前面的名词 hospital，在此用作介词 around 的宾语。
【分析】最佳答案为C。以上语法分析并不算错，但问题是，照此分析，此句的意思即为：有没有这样一个医院，我在它的附近可以买药治我的手伤？这样的语境显然有点不合情理，因为人们通常是在医院里面治伤，而不是在医院附近治伤。此题选 C 的理由是：句中的 around 不是介词，而是副词，意为“在附近”；其后的 where 引导定语从句用以修饰其前的
The ancient stone circle of Stonehenge was built in around 2,000 BC.
巨石阵大概建于公元前2000年。
Is that a skirt you're wearing around your waist, or just an old scrap of cloth?
你穿的是条裙子，还是块废布？
My dream is to travel around the world.
我的梦想是环游世界。
There is a disease spreading around the office.
有一种病在办公室蔓延。
We sat around the table.
我们在桌子周围坐下。
※The most normal and the most perfect human being is the one who most thoroughly addresses himself to the activity of his best powers ,gives himself most thoroughly to the world around him ,flings himself out into the midst of humanity ,and is so preoccu pied by his own beneficent reaction on the world that he is practically unconscious of a sep arate existence... 最正常、最完美的人就是那彻底投身于自己最擅长的活动的人，是那完全献身于周围世界的人，是和群众打成一片的人。他完全专心致志于他对世界的有利作用，以致于几乎意识不到自己与世界还存在距离…… Frences E .C. Willard. American Social activist 美国社会活动家拉德，F。E。C。
※The first method for estimating the intellingence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.——Niccolo Machiavelli, Italian statesman 估理一个统治者的智力，第一个方法就是看看他身边的人。意大利政治家 马基雅弗里 .N.
