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楼主
发表于 2004-5-21 02:09:00 | 只看该作者

OG 42 failure用法



OG 42
42. The current administration, worried about the removal of some foreign trade barriers and the failure of our exports to increase as a result of deep cuts in the value of
the dollar, has formed a group to study ways to sharpen our competitiveness.


failure后面的to increase应该是修饰failure的吧? failure of our exports to increase不好理解.为什么不用failure to increase our exports?


请大家指教



沙发
发表于 2004-5-21 02:49:00 | 只看该作者
failure of our exports to increase与failure to increase our exports意思似乎是一样的,但是仔细理解就觉得不一样。failure of our exports to increase中的increase的逻辑主语就是our exports,our exports to increase都是修饰failure,而且和前面的removal of。。。对应;failure to increase our exports中failure是名词,后面直接加to没见过,而且worried  about the failure to increase our exports,increase的逻辑主语改变了。
板凳
 楼主| 发表于 2004-5-21 04:33:00 | 只看该作者

谢谢iamwwh的提醒. 我查了一下, failure of exports to increase果然不定式to increase的逻辑主语exports是用of引出.

另外, failure to do是可行的. 这里是不定式修饰名词.例如:

1.The failure to harness the power of self-interest is an important reason that state-owned industries perform poorly.

2. Kenneth Lincoln writes that failure to hear American Indian voices results “partly...from the tragedies of tribal dislocation, partly from mistranslation, partly from misconceptions about literature, partly from cultural indifference.”

3.Air pollution from motor vehicles imposes external costs on all those exposed to it, in the form of soiling, materials damage, and disease: these externalities result from failure to place a price on air, thus making it a free good, common to all.

随便也举几个failure of sth. to do的例子:

1.Some of these shortcomings can be attributed to the failure of art historians and filmmakers to collaborate closely enough when making films on art

2.Moreover, the rationale for Herbert’s emphasis on the social and political realities that Impressionist paintings can be said to communicate rather than on their style is finally undermined by what even Herbert concedes was the failure of Impressionist painters to serve as particularly conscientious illustrators of their social milieu.

3.Second, church authorities themselves complained about the failure of advocates to measure up to  ethical standards and deplored the shortcomings of the disciplinary system

地板
发表于 2004-11-7 03:23:00 | 只看该作者

""failure of exports to increase果然不定式to increase的逻辑主语exports是用of引出.""

还是没弄明白, 到底increase的主语是failure还是export?

可以说failure increase ,,,,,吗?

但是和前面removal 并列的一定是failure, 对吧?

5#
发表于 2004-11-7 12:07:00 | 只看该作者

我再问!!!

6#
发表于 2005-2-27 00:25:00 | 只看该作者
以下是引用iamwwh在2004-5-21 2:49:00的发言:
failure of our exports to increase与failure to increase our exports意思似乎是一样的,但是仔细理解就觉得不一样。failure of our exports to increase中的increase的逻辑主语就是our exports,our exports to increase都是修饰failure,而且和前面的removal of。。。对应;failure to increase our exports中failure是名词,后面直接加to没见过,而且worried  about the failure to increase our exports,increase的逻辑主语改变了。


to increase的逻辑主语应该是failure。仔细推敲原句。


注意,如果翻译成中文,很可能看不出区别,在原句中比较。

7#
发表于 2005-5-30 18:25:00 | 只看该作者

我怎么觉得是exports呢?

8#
发表于 2005-9-17 00:05:00 | 只看该作者

to 修饰the failure, the failure to increase our export 完全改变了句意


原文说:外贸失败的增加导致。。。

9#
发表于 2006-3-13 23:12:00 | 只看该作者
It is very clear from what 3rd floor said. The subject of "to increase" is "exports".
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