英语定冠词the的问题新概念3里的这句话：The editor at once sent the journalist a fax instructing him to find out the exact number of steps and the height of the wall.为什么wall前有the,而steps前面却没有the?全文如下Editors

英语定冠词the的问题新概念3里的这句话：The editor at once sent the journalist a fax instructing him to find out the exact number of steps and the height of the wall.为什么wall前有the,而steps前面却没有the?全文如下Editors
英语定冠词the的问题
新概念3里的这句话：The editor at once sent the journalist a fax instructing him to find out the exact number of steps and the height of the wall.为什么wall前有the,而steps前面却没有the?
全文如下
Editors of newspapers and magazines often go to extremes to provide their readers with unimportant facts and statistics.Last year a journalist had been instructed by a well-known magazine to write an article on the president's palace in a new African republic.When the article arrived,the editor read the first sentence and then refused to publish it.The article began:'Hundreds of steps lead to the high wall which surrounds the president's palace.' The editor at once sent the journalist a fax instructing him to find out the exact number of steps and the height of the wall.The journalist immediately set out to obtain these important facts,but he took a long time to send them.Meanwhile,the editor was getting impatient,for the magazine would soon go to press.He sent the journalist two urgent telegrams,but received no reply.He sent yet another telegram informing the journalist that if he did not reply soon he would be fired.When the journalist again failed to reply,the editor reluctantly published the article as it had originally been written.A week later,the editor at last received a telegram from the journalist.Not only had the poor man been arrested,but he had been sent to prison as well.However,he had at last been allowed to send a cable in which he informed the editor that he had been arrested while counting the 1084 steps leading to the 15-foot wall which surrounded the president's palace.

英语定冠词the的问题新概念3里的这句话：The editor at once sent the journalist a fax instructing him to find out the exact number of steps and the height of the wall.为什么wall前有the,而steps前面却没有the?全文如下Editors
额.真的是被你这个问题给confused了.我原来还背过这篇文章.都没发现.
你可以看一下上两行的这句：Hundreds of steps lead to the high wall which surrounds the president's palace.
当说一类事物的时候,可数名词可以用the+单数形式或者直接用复数形式.
说实话我觉得这句话里steps前面加不加the都无所谓.加the就是特指他说的那些个steps,不加the就说是step这种东西.至于wall么肯定是特指那个高墙啊.
有的时候真的不必要特别去纠结这东西.靠语感什么也可以的.