看绝望的主妇学高频短语：Can’t help doing sth
Can’t help doing sth: 1. To have a compulsion to do something that is too strong to ignore or avoid. As in We can’t help intervening here, before you throw your life away on drugs! 2. To have no control over or be unable to avoid some action.As in I know it’s silly, but I can’t help feeling like I failed you somehow.
中文释义：sb can’t help (doing) sth 是指某人忍不住（或无法抑制）做某事。或者通俗点讲，can’t help (doing)是指看到某物而想起了什么，睹物生情，或是受到某事物刺激而引起了另外一个动作。例句：She is a very selfish woman, but somehow you can’t help liking her.（她是个自私的女人，但是你都忍不住喜欢她。）另外还有一个常用句型结构：can’t stop doing sth ,“不能停止做某事”。例句：He can’t stop thinking about it.（他无法做到不再想这件事)
Can’t/couldn’t help but 后面还可以接从句，示例如下：
Narrator: Sadly for George, it was one unoriginal excuse after another. 可怜的乔治 听到的总是老套的借口
——>>But since he’d started seeing Bree Van De Kamp, 但当他开始和布里·范德坎普约会
——>>George couldn’t help but feel… (that) his luck was about to change. 他忍不住觉得他要开始转运了。
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