在Oxford Dictionary of English第3版,查revert这人词时,看到这样一个例句:
Teachers were shown in the early stages of their teaching after the training to be utilizing the ideas, but eventually they reverted to previous practices.
问题要害: show的用法比较怪,
我理解语义为老师们用这些理念训练后体现在早期教学阶段,但是最终他们又回到以前的练习.
求高手释义.
be shown to be/do something
The campaign has been shown to be a waste of money.
这次宣传活动结果证明是在浪费钱财。
The new treatment has been shown to reduce the number of deaths.
这种新疗法被证明可以减少死亡人数。
这样解释,心理上确实顺畅一点.我个人可能认为如果是:Teachers were shown teaching students in a new way in the early stages of their teaching after the training to be utilizing the ieas, but...
但这太不地道,语言也许是外文的习惯, 不能强求逻辑. 感谢各位老师的答复!
那这样改可好？ Teachers were shown (to be) utilizing the ideas in the early stages of their teaching after the training, but eventually they reverted to previous practices.
你那个teaching students in a new way 不就是utilizing the ideas吗？
这里不加to be，直接用现在分词感觉也是可以的吧？？？求高人解答？
这里的show属于朗文词典中的这条用法：
be shown to be/do something
The campaign has been shown to be a waste of money.
The new treatment has been shown to reduce the number of deaths.
而这里后接的不定式可以等价于从句，但从句中的谓语却要使用相应的时态或情态动词，如：
It has been shown that the campaign IS a waste of money.
It has been shown that the new treatment CAN reduce the number of deaths.
回到原句中，我们用从句表达可以是（注意以下不同时态所表达的时间含义不同)：
It was shown that teachers had utilzied the ideas, but eventually they reverted to previous practices.
It was shown that teachers had been utilizing the ideas, but eventually they reverted to previous practices.
It was shown that teachers were utilizing the ideas, but eventually they reverted to previous practices.
但却不说
It was shown that teachers utilized the ideas, but eventually they reverted to previous practices.
所以原句
Teachers were shown to be utilizing/to have utilized 都是说得通的，却不能使用to utilize
可以说:
A strange, middle-aged man was seen entering the house to meet Ken's wife at 9 o'clock in the morning when her husband had gone to work.
但不说:
Those the Western press calls peaceful protesters were shown tussling with the police on the streets and vandalizing at subway stations and the airport.*
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发表于 2019-8-25 20:37:52
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