以下是引用Nolayang在2006-6-25 18:15:00的发言:JB denied a motion to allow members of the jury to go home at the end of each day rather than to be confined to a hotel I think we can't say 'allow ...be confined',seems awkward. There isn't a 'to' in the original choice. I don't mean that there is "to" in the original choice. It could be omitted in the following structure. to X, [to] Y, and [to] Z 这个句子我觉得应该这样理解: 1. Members of the jury are confined to a hotel at the end of each day. 2. There was motion to allow members to go home at the end of each day. 3. Judge denied that motion. allow somebody to do X rather than to do Y的结构里,to do Y不是allow的对象,它只是和to do X建立一种逻辑上的对立关系。换句话说,to do Y 是不需要被allow的,但是not to do Y是需要的。因为在本结构里,to do Y是被否定的,也就是说从逻辑上讲是allow somebody to not do Y。 所以,在这种情况,不应该简单地将to do X rather than 去掉然后考虑allow to do Y是不是合理。 |