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(11a) He(主位)lost a few pounds because of successive exertion. (有灵句) (11b) Successive exertion (主位)has already chipped a few pounds off him. (无灵句) 以上两句表达的意思都是“他连日辛苦,已经瘦下好几磅肉了”。(11b)与(11a)的功能区别是( 11b)中作者突出、强调“successive exertion”抽象物这一信息,而且还赋予原来无生命的事物以生命,使整个句子显现出动感和生机,语气含蓄,令人回味。 以下两句的主位不同,可从中体会它们之间的内涵差异。 (12a) I was unable to speak because I was too astonished. (12b) Astonishment deprived me of my power of speech. (13a) No one believed the story. (13b) The story convinced no one. 文学作品 新闻报道 谚语 科技英语 A smile would come into Mr. Pickwick’s face , a smile extended into a laugh. (Dickens) 匹可威克脸上露出微笑,一会又笑出声来。 At length a rumor reached our shores that the prince of Orange had returned on an enterprise. (Hawthorne) 后来有谣言从大西洋彼岸传来,说奥兰治王子提出了一项大胆的计划。 The weakness of exhausted passion caused her steps to totter as she descended the pulpit star. (Hawthorne) 她耗尽了热情,显得虚弱不堪,当她走下讲坛台阶时,步伐踉跄了。 1. This was invitation enough. (Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice) 2. “How so ? how can it affect them ?”(ibid. ) 3. “ Is this his design in settling here ?”(ibid. ) 4. The disagreement subsisting between yourself and my late honoured father always gave me much uneasiness. (ibid.) 5. Her new green flowered-muslin dress spread its twelve yards of billowing material over her hoops and exactly matched the flat2heeled green morocco slippers her father had recently brought her from Atlanta. (Margaret Mitchell: Gone with the Wind) 6. The dress set off to perfection the seventeen-inch waist , the smallest in three counties , and tightly fitting basque showed breast’ s well matured for her sixteen years. (ibid.) 7. The habit of command sat upon him now, a quiet air of self-reliance and authority, and grim lines were beginning to emerge about his mouth. (ibid.) 8. There was something new and strange about the square set of his shoulders and the cool bright gleam of his eyes. (ibid.) 9. The world will little note nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. (Abraham Lincoln