关于曼哈顿书中对过去完成时的一点疑惑 望解答

sherryeveryday

在书里有这样一段话：
''On hard questions, the GMAT may make a tricky sentence in which the past perfect verb is not the earlist action in the sentence:
Right: the band U2 WAS just one of many new groups on the rock music scene in the early 1980s, but less than ten years later, U2 HAD fully ECLIPSED its early rivals in the pantheon of popular music.''

在第一个句字中用了一般过去时(was)，第二个句子用了过去完成时。曼哈顿中解释说，虽然had eclipsed不是整个句子中最早的动作，但是是在其从句中最早的，所以可以用过去完成时。但第二个句子中除了had eclipsed没有其它动作了不是吗。。

一直很疑惑，希望高人解答~！

球三乘以三

我觉得原句用反了？？？？？没看懂解释....顶一下 让大牛看到

sherryeveryday

为防止我理解错误，放上曼哈顿原文：

The first independent clause uses simple past. The second independent clause (after the word but) contains a time marker (ten years later) and then mentions another action (had eclipsed) that occurs before that time marker. Even though had eclipsed is not the earliest action in the entire senence, it is the earlier of the two actions in its independent clause. This complex construction is correct.

好妹妹艾薇

but less than ten years later, 这个时间发生在had eclipsed之前

sherryeveryday

好妹妹艾薇 发表于 2017-8-23 14:19
but less than ten years later, 这个时间发生在had eclipsed之前

啊。。原来是这样。。感谢解答~~

echoM

forum.chasedream.com/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=743260贴个关于过去完成时的讲解
发现过去完成时并不只是强调时间的先后 更强调implied meaning

这句话，less than ten years later 是在两个independent clause的中间
第一个时间点是1980-第二个是less than ten years later 就是少于1980后的十年，即为 less than 1990
所以在第二个independent clause中，eclipse这个动作是发生在less than 1990这个时间点的，所以它是两个action中earlier的一个

这个是我的想法～

AMBER513

看一下！