如何理解I won’t think of it now（我现在先不去想它）
2024-10-22 13:06:25 学考宝 作者：佚名
问题描述
在小说《飘》中，斯佳丽遇到挫折时总会想到：“I won’t think of it now.”
下面是结局中的一小部分：
There was a merciful dullness in her mind now, a dullness that she knew from long experience would soon give way to sharp pain, even as severed tissues, shocked by the surgeon’s knife, have a brief instant of insensibility before their agony begins.
“I won’t think of it now,” she thought grimly, summoning up her old charm. “I’ll go crazy if I think about losing him now. I’ll think of it tomorrow.”
“But,” cried her heart, casting aside the charm and beginning to ache, “I can’t let him go！ There must be some way！”
“I won’t think of it now,” she said again, aloud, trying to push her misery to the back of her mind, trying to find some bulwark against the rising tide of pain. “I’ll—why, I’ll go home to Tara tomorrow,” and her spirits lifted faintly.
我的疑问是：
为什么“I won’t think of it now.”有个now但是却用将来时？
如何理解I won’t think of it now？
老师答疑
倪老师：
I won’t think of it now 句中的 won't 并非将来时，而是情态动词 will 的否定式。情态动词 will可以表示意愿（used to say that you are willing to do something），这在词典中都能查到。所以斯嘉丽的意思是：我现在不想（不愿意）去想（losing him）这件事。从文中 I’ll go crazy if I think about losing him now 以及 trying to push her misery to the back of her mind, trying to find some bulwark against the rising tide of pain 可知，斯嘉丽当时内心痛苦，心情不好，所以，“不愿去想”很自然。
