英语中的动词与名词（英语动词和名词的相互转换）

在英语中很多动词可以当名词使用，反之亦然。本篇讨论既可以当名词又可以当动词的现象。例如：

1. The dance looks nice. (名词)
2. I dance every day. (动词)

在上面的例子中， 头一个句子的dance做主语是名词，而第二个句子的dance是动词做谓语。再看一个句子：

After my heart attack, the doctor decided to attack the problem with a new medication.我心脏发病后，医生决定用一种新药治疗。

这一句的前面heart attack是心脏病的说法，后面的attack是动词是攻破的意思。你能判断下个句子中的excuse的词性吗？

Though the boy tried to use his broken alarm clock as an excuse, the teacher would not excuse his absence on the day of the final exam.

这样的动词和名词相互转换的有很多，如： Walk, worship, dream, fight, support, trust, refuse, jail, sentence, position, paint, comment, police, center, labor, catch, focus, attempt, kiss, school, use, ring, form, farm, book, dance, demands, school, silence, point, ring, plant, plan, move, file, fire, dialogue, scheme 等等。根据在句子中的使用方式，它们可以是名词，也可能是动词。例如：

1. I have a dream. (名词)
2. I dream every night. (动词)
3. We silence their towns. (名词)
4. The fight was interesting. (名词)
5. The boys fight in the street. (动词)
6. The support we received from our English teacher was immense. (名词)
7. I shall support you tonight. (动词)
8. I am happy our demands were met by the Prime Minister yesterday. (名词)
9. The law demands that you surrender all the items you stole from the office. (动词
10. In Economics, there is a difference between our wants and needs. (名词)
11. She wants to have fun tonight. (动词)

我们可以说：

to run [动词]

to go for a run [名词]

to chat [动词]

to have a chat [名词]

这种转很多，一种是动词的名词化，另一种是名词的动词化。

• The organization needs to leverage its key resources.（名词变动词）
• The move is not expected to impact the company’s employees.（名词变动词）
• You will interface with counterparts from sister companies. （名词变动词）
• The media referenced our association in almost 40 articles. （名词变动词）

下面表格中列出了常见的动词/名词转换的单词，使用的的时候注意不是所有的动词都可以变成名词，也不是任何名词都可以变动词。掌握了这种用法，下次见到这样的句子你就不奇怪了：

I take a walk before breakfast every morning, and I walk the dog in the meantime.