用作動詞:
表示“介意”、“在乎”等,其后接動詞時要用動名詞;表示“注意”、“當心”,后接動詞時要用不定式,例如:
(1)Do you mind helping us?請你幫我們一下好嗎?
(2)I’m sure he wouldn’t mind your going with us.我肯定他不會反對你同我們一起去。
用作名詞:
表示“腦子”、“心思”等,通常用作可數名詞,例如:
(1)I’ve good mind to go home.我很想回家。
(2)He has a mind for science.他有學科學的頭腦。
用于句型Would(Do)you mind...?
(1)該句型意為“請你……好不好?”、“倘若……你見怪嗎?”,用would比用do更委婉,但通常不同will;其后可接動名詞(但不接不定式)或if從句;接動名詞時,根據情況可以帶邏輯主語;接if從句時,若句首用的would,從句謂語通常要用過去式。
Would you mind if I turned on the TV?我打開電視你介意嗎?
Would you mind me smoking here?我在這兒抽煙你介意嗎?
(2)表示不同意:Yes,I do mind./Please don’t.../Better not,please./I’d rather you didn’t./I’m sorry,but...等。
—Would you mind my turning off the light?我把燈關掉,你介意嗎?
—I’m sorry. I haven’t finished my work. (= I wish you wouldn’t. I haven’t finished my work.) 對不起,我還沒有完成我的工作.
(3)表示同意:Oh,no,please./No,not at all./Not at all./Certainly not./Of course not./No,go ahead.等。
—Would you mind my standing here?你介意我站在這里嗎?
—Not at all. 沒關系.