在美式英语对话中,我们经常会听到这样的英语表达:I’m headed to New York City. 也会听到这样的说法:I’m heading to New York City.两个句子的结构几乎没有区别,除了其中的一个动词head,一个用的是现在分词heading,另一个则用的是过去分词headed。那么这两个句子所表达的意思是否有区别呢?今天我们一起来学习。
如果你不是喜欢严格抠语法,headed和heading之间区别不是很大,很多人(包括部分native speaker)也会认为二者可以互换(interchangeable),而且两种说法都绝对正确。但如果深究起来,他们之间存在如下相当细微(甚至有时可以被忽略)的区别:
1. headed to表示被动,所以主语也常是无生命主体(inanimate subjects),表示被移动,比如:交通工具,The flight is headed to the northern part of the state. 而heading to,其主语更多的用于人,表示主动去往某地。She’s heading to the movie theater right now.
2. headed是动词的过去分词(past participle),过去分词分词形式常常被用做形容词(adjective),并且用来表示一种持续的状态(state),类似的用法如:She is married。而heading,我们知道是属于动词的现在分词(present participle),强调动作正在发生(action in progress)。headed to可能意味着朝向某个具体目的地或目标(target),但不一定当前就有动作在进行。而heading to,则强调动作(motion)正在进行中。
最后,我们来看下面的几个例子,仔细体会一下headed和heading在句中的含义区别:
- Jeb Bush is heading to Charleston for a private meeting with pastors.(The Business Insider)
- This classic Redford and Newman film is headed to Broadway. (New York Post)
- The plane is headed to Liberia to retrieve the other American, fellow missionary Nancy Writebol. (CNN)
- One Direction is headed to space in their new music video for ‘Drag Me Down’. (Socialite Life)
- Obama heading to vegas to talk climate change as stock market plummets on #BlackMonday. (pjmedia.com)
- We’ll take a look at where augmented reality is now and where it may be headed soon. (howstuffworks.com)
如果你还想进一步了解headed和heading在意思及用法上的区别,可以参考以下链接:
(1) englishpage.net
(2) english-test.net
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