网站上看到这个句子:
She wasnt the smooth, superior woman, looking down her nose at him, that he had remembered, but warm, loving, familiar.
其中的 looking down her nose at him 是做定语?但我感觉定语状语都说得通,怎么样剖析是做定语还是状语,谢谢!
She wasnt the smooth, superior woman, looking down her nose at him, that he had remembered, but warm, loving, familiar.
这个句子挺有趣的,是对语法剖析的一个挑战。
that引导的无疑是限制性定语从句,限制性定语从句一般是不可以用逗号的。但本句中that的先行词不是woman这一个词,而是the smooth, superior woman, looking down her nose at him这个名词词组。其中目前分词短语looking down her nose at him为superior woman的非限制性定语,故前后用逗号隔开。假如去掉这个非限制性定语,则woman后接that从句,不可用逗号。She wasnt the smooth, superior woman that he had remembered, but warm, loving, familiar. 由此可知,that前的逗号不是分隔that从句的,而是分隔目前分词短语的。
目前分词短语不可能是状语,由于它是补充说明表语woman的,其逻辑主语为woman, 而不是句子的主语She。注意句子的逻辑:主语不是那个女性。看不起人是那个女性的特点,而不是主语的特点。
句子译文:她不是我记忆中的那个娴雅、高傲、看不起我的女性。相反,她为人热情,待人大方、富有爱心、不拘礼节。