The habit of doing that which you don’t care about when you would much rather be doing something else, is invaluable.

Q:would rather + 从句，从句应用虚拟语气。为何此处不是？请尘埃兄帮忙解答。谢谢！

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[转移贴子－尘埃落定]句子结构分析：

Time（主语） goes（谓语） fast for one 〖who has a sense of beauty〗,〖when there are pretty children in a pool and a young Diana on the edge〗,to receive with wonder anything（省略了that） 〖you can catch〗.

〖when 。。。 on the edge〗是插入成分，将who has a sense of beauty和to receive with wonder anything you can catch分隔开来，而who has a sense of beauty to receive with wonder anything you can catch是定语从句修饰one。

语言点分析：

句中的wonder这里应理解为“惊奇、好奇”

a young Diana 不是指“一个年轻的Diana”，而是指“一个象Diana一样的年轻女孩”

参考译文：

对于那些有美感，以至于能以好奇心接收你能捕捉到的任何东西的人来说，时间总是过得很快，比如当戏水池里有几个可爱的孩子，池边还有一位如戴安娜似的年轻女子时。

以下是引用jevonstanck在2006-5-4 11:41:00的发言：

The habit of doing that which you don’t care about when you would much rather be doing something else, is invaluable.

Q:would rather + 从句，从句应用虚拟语气。为何此处不是？请尘埃兄帮忙解答。谢谢！

『wourld rather 用法小结』

1、would rather+动词原型，表示主语当时的意愿，不是虚拟语气，意思是“宁愿、宁可、更、最好、还是为好”，常省略为’d rather。其否定形式是would rather not do sth。would rather没有人称和数的变化，所有的人称一律用would rather。

eg：

If you’d rather be alone, we’ll all leave here.

如果你宁愿独自呆着，那我们都离开这儿。

Mr Li would rather not listen to rock music.

李先生不愿意听摇滚音乐。

2、在疑问句式中，would rather 与would rather…than…中的would要放在主语之前

Which would you rather have, apples or bananas?

你喜欢吃苹果还是香蕉？

Would you rather read a novel than read a poem?

你宁愿看小说而不愿朗读诗歌吗？

3、would rather+从句，是一个常用的虚拟语气句型　

Would rather+从句,从句的谓语一般用过去式来表示现在或将来。其意为“宁愿……,还是…… 好些”“一个人宁愿另一个人做某事”。引导从句的that常省略。

eg：

John wants to see me today. I would rather he came to tomorrow than today.

约翰今天想去看我。我宁愿他明天来看我而不是今天。(句中came不是表示过去而是表示将来)

在谈到过去的动作时，谓语则用过去完成时。

eg：I'd rather he hadn't done that.

我真希望你没做过那件事。（表示过去“他”做了那件事，此刻“我”希望他那时没做）

4、would rather后还可接动词的完成式，表示主语要做某事，而结果却事与愿违。

eg：

I'd rather have left a note on her desk.

我本想留张字条在她书桌上的。

The habit of doing that which you don’t care about when you would much rather be doing something else, is invaluable.

这个句子中would much rather be doing就是第一个would rather的第一个用法，接的动词原形，表示主语you的一种意愿而非接从句，这里be doing是强调“那个时候正在做某事”。

参考译文；

当你非常想做其他事的时候而去做你并不关心的事，这种习惯是很可贵的。（注：invaluable=very valuable，valueless才指“没有价值的”）

[此贴子已经被作者于2006-5-5 19:45:31编辑过]

A light with no more power than that produced by an ordinary electric light bulb becomes intensely strong as it is concentrated to a pinpoint-sized beam.

帮我翻译一下好吗？版主大哥，谢谢！

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[此贴子已经被尘埃落定于2006-5-10 23:11:26编辑过]

The 1990 cencus revealed that ''a majority of immigrants form each of the fifteen most common countries of origin spoke English''well'' or ''very well'' after ten years of residence.''

There is ''the democrating uniformity of dress discouse and the casualness and absence of deference ''characteristic of popular culture.

引号里的怎么翻译啊？

以下是引用sophie1012在2006-5-9 15:32:00的发言：

A light with no more power than that produced by an ordinary electric light bulb becomes intensely strong as it is concentrated to a pinpoint-sized beam.

帮我翻译一下好吗？版主大哥，谢谢！

句子结构分析：

A light（主语） 〖with no more power than that 〔produced by an ordinary electric light bulb〕〗（定语） becomes（系动词） intensely strong（表语） 〖as it is concentrated to a pinpoint-sized beam.〗（状语）

〖with no more power than that 〔produced by an ordinary electric light bulb〕〗中that指代的是the light（也就是和主语a light作比较的那个light）。〔produced by an ordinary electric light bulb〕是过去分词作后置定语修饰that。

语言点分析：

A light with no more power than that produced by an ordinary electric light bulb 这个句中涉及到一个句型A 。。。no more... than B ，A和B一样不。。。

因此，这个短句就应该理解为，“和普通电灯泡发出的光线一样亮度不高的光线”

参考译文：

当被聚集成一个极其微小的光束时，亮度仅仅如同普通电灯泡发出的光线也会变得非常强。

[此贴子已经被作者于2006-5-11 15:06:37编辑过]

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尘埃落定，你真是做了件大好事呀．这几天一直被长难句折磨着，开始在看考试虫的＜长难句分析＞，看得我很痛苦，感觉你的结构划分比他的形式来得好．更容易看懂．

　　在此再次表示感谢,