instruction是只有复数形式吗

instruction做,指令,时用单数或复数,那instruction表示什么时用单数?

instruction做,指令,时用单数或复数,那instruction表示什么时用单数?

instruction英 [nstrkn] 美 [nstrkn] n. 授课;教诲;传授的或获得的知识,课程;[计算机科学]指令复数: instructions

鲁滨逊漂流记经典英文语句语法分析?

鲁滨逊飘流记
The author’s preface
If ever the story of any private man’s adventures in the world was worth making public, and was acceptable when published, the editor of this account thinks this will be so.
The wonders of this man’s life exceed all that (he thinks) is to be found extant the life of one man being scarce capable of a greater variety.(此句分号前是一个复合句,按语法结构直译是:“此人的生活奇迹超过编者认为可以发现的所有东西还多”。分号后是所谓“独立结构”,其逻辑主语是the life of one man,其逻辑谓语是being scarce capable of a greater variety;而此句的主语是名词复数The wonders,谓语动词现在式是exceed,谓语跟主语一致,这里都用复数形式。但逻辑主语和逻辑谓语之间就没有这种语法关系。)
The story is told with modesty, with seriousness, and with a religious application of events to the uses to which wise men always apply them, viz. to the instruction of others by this example, and to justify and honour the wisdom of Providence in all the variety of our circumstances, let them happen how they will.(这里有四个to:除最后的一个表示动词不定式外,其他三个都与词组搭配有关,动作名词application和动词apply都要求用介词 to;Providence按此书的通常用法译成“上天”;let them happen how they wi