feel like究竟什么意思？

译林版《牛津高中英语》(模块一高一上学期)(2006年12月第次印刷)p64：

7 I feel like we have to punish him or he won’t respect us. (page 23, line 52-53) 我觉得我们得惩罚他一下，要不然他会不尊重我们。feel like意思是“想要”，一般后接名词、代词或动名词，在口语中有时也接从句。

从以上可以看出教材的编者认为 I feel like we have to punish him or he won’t respect us.中的 feel like 意思是“想要”，然而在例句中其对应的汉语却是“……觉得……。”两者之间却有天壤之别，那么此处的 feel like 究竟什么意思？

吕志士、袁锡兴在其主编的《英语惯用法大词典》(中国科学技术出版社1994年12月第1版)p764给出了明确的答案：

(4) 在口语中，feel like 后面可接由 that 引导的从句，意思与 feel as if 相同，作“感觉好像……”解。如：

I feel like (that I am sitting on pins and needles.

He felt like (that) he was going to faint.

由此可知：feel like后面接由that引导的从句时，意思与feel as if 相同，作“感觉好像……”解，而不是像译林版《牛津高中英语》所说的作“想要”解。

同时，这一说法可以从以下资料中得到印证：

1.“英语语法网”之“feel like 用法详解”(www.yygrammar.com/Article/200811/892.html)：

注：后接句子时，其中的 like 相当于 as if 或 as though。如：

I felt like [as if, as though] I was swimming. 我觉得好像在游泳似的。

Alice felt like [as if, as though] she was in a very nice dream. 艾丽斯觉得她好像在做一个美梦。

2. 萧凤歧编著《现代英语惯用法实例词典》(北京理工大学出版社 1989 年10月第一版)p327：

在非正式的口语里，feel like 后面可以接 clauses 与 feel as if 同义。例如：

“How do you feel?” Manny asked brightly. “Feel? How do I feel? I feel like I’m two hundred years old and red hot pincers are pulling at my chest.” ( Lee Langley[Eng.] 1980)

实例表明，feel like 后面可接两个 clauses，clauses 里的谓语可用实际时态。

3. N. D. Turton and J. B. Heaton主编的Longman Dictionary of Common Errors (Eleventh impression 2003) p135：

P In some places you feel like you are in a jungle.

Feel like (and feel as if /though) are followed by a clause:

I felt as if everyone was staring at me. (=It seemed as if….)

4. Michael Swan著Practical English Usage即《英语用法指南》（第二版翻译本）（郑荣成等编译，外语教学与研究出版社 2000年9月第1版） p273：

Alice felt as if/though she was in a very nice dream. 艾丽斯觉得她好像在做梦。（也可以说：Alice felt like she was…）

另外，无论英国英语中，还是美国英语中，无论是非正式口语中，还是其他语体中，都存在feel like后面接由that引导的从句，意思与feel as if 相同，作“感觉好像……”解的真实例证：

1. BNC（英国国家语料库http://www.natcorp.ox.ac.uk）和BUY-BNC BRTISH NATIONAL CORPUS (UK,1980s-1993)（Mark Davies, Brigham Young University）http://corpus.byu.edu/bnc/：

(1) You've gone and achieved something, you feel like you've done something good, you feel like you're somebody.

(2) Walk up to the gates and you feel like you have been sandbagged in the stomach.

(3) And the brakes feel like they could stop an express train.

(4) “I felt like I was escaping just to get in,” he reflected after his taxi failed to turn up and he got a lift from a receptionist at his hotel.

(5) But if she feels like she wants extra time I think she ought to allow herself extra time That's right yeah. don't she?

2. Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English（http://www.ldoceonline.com/dictionary）

I felt like I'd really achieved something.

3. BYU: THE OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY(http://corpus.byu/oed/):

1944 I thought that over for a moment and felt like all the morons Allhoff had ever called me when Battersby, who was no Einstein, got it before me.

1964... I still feel like death warmed up.

4. BUY CORPUS OF AMERICAN ENGLISH (1990-2008) (Mark Davies, Brigham Young University) http://www.americancorpus.org/：

2008 Because you finally feel like you're free.

2008 But you know I still have this issue today, going to my family's church and telling them that I have it, but then again I feel like I'm going to be shunned once I tell them I have it.

5. TIME CORPUS OF AMERICAN ENGLISH (1923-2006) (Mark Davies, Brigham Young University ) (http://corpus.byu.edu/time):

1931/08/24 I feel like I am in the presence of fiends.

从以上可以看出：早在(笔者注：可能还要早)1944年英国英语中就已经存在feel like后面接由that引导的从句的例证；早在(笔者注：可能还要早)1931年美国英语中就已经存在feel like后面接由that引导的从句的例证，而且至今仍在使用，并突破了非正式口语的限制，应用于其他语体之中。