在prep里面,有这么一题:
174.Often major economic shifts are so gradual asto be indistinguishable at first from ordinary fluctuations in thefinancial markets.A.so gradual as to beindistinguishableB.so gradual so that theycan be indistinguishableC.so gradual that they areunable to be distinguishedD.gradual enough not to bedistinguishable (A)E.gradual enough so thatone cannot distinguish them答案是A,也在语法笔记当初给出了很明确的so that, so as的用法
区别在于,so that 可以用于逻辑主语不同的句子当中,so as to则必须是逻辑主语一致,是to不定式后面动词的承担者。
这里我有点疑惑,有想了一下,OG里面有一题:
In 1527 King Henry VIII sought to have hismarriage to Queen Catherine annulled so as to marry Anne Boleyn.(A) soas to marry(B) andso could be married to(C) tobe married to(D) sothat he could marry(E) inorder that he would marry答案是D。自己第一次在OG碰到的时候选错了B,当时刚接触SC不知道该结构。
看了OG的解释,上面写 x happened so that y could happen, 其中so更加是引出一个purpose。
当我看完prep这题的时候再去看这题,感觉就是so as to do, 因为to do修饰的主语还是句子的逻辑主语,King Henry.
这里的so that 跟上面prep里面的so that不同。是不是so that引出目的,而so...that描述一种状态“很...以至于..."这样呢?
求NN指教!
-- by 会员 stevenlong (2011/8/10 21:21:37)