go on 可以表示“继续”的意思,说到这顺便说一下,电影《泰坦尼克号》主题曲《我心永恒》就可以表达成“ My Heart Will Go On”.
通常情况下,go on 后面可以接 动词不定式to do sth. ,也可以接doing sth.
两者在意思上都表示“继续做某事”,但是具体用法上有一定的区别。下面来具体介绍一下。
go on doing sth.
go on doing sth.意思为“继续(干某事),持续不断地(干某事)”,表示一直在做某事,没有做其他事.例如:
Water goes on running along the channels to the river.
They went on talking on the way home.
go on to do sth.表示“(干完某事后)继续干另外一件事”,强调接着干另外一件事。
例如: After a few days , they went on to negotiate with us.
数天之后,他们继续和我们谈判。
They want to go on teaching English in a local
school all their life. 他们想一辈子都在一所当地学校教英语。(他们想在一所当地学校教英语英语,并想一直继续下去。)
而go on to do sth .表示停顿一段时间或者之前做其它的事,之后继续做别的.
例如:
After five years of working as an English
teacher, he quitted that job and went on to
start a business of his own .
在当了五年的英语老师后他辞职了,然后继续自己创业。