用作动词:
表示“介意”、“在乎”等,其后接动词时要用动名词;表示“注意”、“当心”,后接动词时要用不定式,例如:
(1)Do you mind helping us?请你帮我们一下好吗?
(2)I’m sure he wouldn’t mind your going with us.我肯定他不会反对你同我们一起去。
用作名词:
表示“脑子”、“心思”等,通常用作可数名词,例如:
(1)I’ve good mind to go home.我很想回家。
(2)He has a mind for science.他有学科学的'头脑。
用于句型Would(Do)you mind...?
(1)该句型意为“请你……好不好?”、“倘若……你见怪吗?”,用would比用do更委婉,但通常不同will;其后可接动名词(但不接不定式)或if从句;接动名词时,根据情况可以带逻辑主语;接if从句时,若句首用的would,从句谓语通常要用过去式。
Would you mind if I turned on the TV?我打开电视你介意吗?
Would you mind me smoking here?我在这儿抽烟你介意吗?
(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?我把灯关掉,你介意吗?
—I’m sorry. I haven’t finished my work. (= I wish you wouldn’t. I haven’t finished my work.) 对不起,我还没有完成我的工作.
(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?你介意我站在这里吗?
—Not at all. 没关系.