research可数时什么意思
来源:未知发布时间:2019-08-23
最近小编在国外某问答网站上看到了这样一个提问"Research" is an uncountable noun, but why does it have a plural form? 这个问题简直问到了我心坎里，因为小编在阅读文献和撰写英文论文的过程中，也会对researches这个词存在的合理性表示疑惑。看到这个提问，顿时发觉同一个世界，同一种疑问有木有。
牛津学习者词典：
research [uncountable] (also researches [plural] especially in British English)： a careful study of a subject, especially in order to discover new facts or information about it.
例[1] New research on the effects of exercise has found that there are hidden dangers in having too much of it.
例[2] His researches on the fossil woods led him to researches on other fossils.
柯林斯COBUILD词典：
research [uncountable noun]：Research is work that involves studying something and trying to discover facts about it.
例[3] 65 percent of the 1987 budget went for nuclear weapons research and production.
可见，不同的英文字典对于research能否用复数形式存在异议，但不乏共识,即 research为不可数名词。
通过以上分析，我们的结论如下：
research通常为不可数名词；
research作为可数名词时，只能用其复数形式researches，且在BNC和COCA语料库中的使用频率非常低；(划重点)
3.research在本族语者学术论文中出现的频数非常非常低，是小概率事件(划重点)。