谈及插入语从句在这里就会自然的提出两个问题。第一,间隔的位置一般位于什么哪里?第二,插入语一般由什么东西构成? 23houS
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1) 主谓分隔:Rose, a young American poet, is brilliant. (被同位语隔开) >@a7Zzl0H
Susan, I suppose, finds the right way to go.(被插入语隔开) @0tX,Z
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2) 复合谓语分隔:You might at least offer to help. (被状语隔开) ApggTzh@
3) 动宾分隔:They estimated in the newspaper the costs of health care.(被状语隔开) heWQPM|s
4) 固定搭配分隔:They thought in a systematic way about the problems.(被状语隔开) Ne3YhCC>
5) 连词与后续部分分隔 .Tw:Y,G
比如,What is hard to establish is whether the productivity revolution that the business assume they are presiding over is for real.中they are presiding over 就是一个主谓结构的插入语,隔开了主谓部分。 Ut/%+r"s
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另外,这种情况在翻译真题出的频率也很高:Whorf came to believe in a sort of linguistic determinism which, in its strongest form, states that language imprisons the mind.在这里in its strongest form这个介词短语讲定于从句的引导词与定从隔开了。
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自然而然,第二个问题来了,到底什么东西做插入语呢? rY@9nQ\>g
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首先要说明一点就是插入语的成分问题,它是一个对句子的内容补充、添加、限制或者解释说明,并不是句子的独立语法成分,在阅读时可以跳读来把握句子整体结构。 {}RU'<D
一般说来由以下三个层面来做插入语, >b:5&s\9
第一从词的层面比如副词:consequently, however,等。This view, however, seems to be wrong. 7@k3-?q
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如不定式短语to tell you the truth, to be frank等,或者for example也是 %z.d
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Mr. McWhorter’s academic specialty is language history and change, he sees the gradual disappear of “whom”, for example, to be natural……这个地方for example 所处的位置阻碍了同学们对于这个宾语和宾补的理解,增加了该句的难度,而这一点往往是考研的重点。 sint":1FC
第三个层面就是句子层面了,比如as we know it, what we call it X1[zkb
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