请大家来看看这个诡异的句子

taner

A desire to throw over reality a light that never was might give away abruptly to the desire on the part of what we might consider a novelist-scientist to record exactly and concretely the structure and tecture of a flower.

请问was might give away 是一个什么结构？

多谢！

sue101

大概是 有什么什么的可能的意思吧

tq0a4bvc

be动词加情态动词再加动词~~~过去式？搞不懂~~顶起来

苏27

A desire（主语）
    to throw over reality a light that never was
    （动词不定式短语修饰a desire)
    might give away
    (谓语）abruptly to the desire on the part of what we might consider a novelist-scientist to record exactly and concretely the structure and tecture of a flower.

tq0a4bvc

ls能帮忙翻译下嘛~~~帮人帮到底嘛~~~

taner

谢谢！

也就是说that never was 是用来修饰light的？怎么用was 呢？有点奇怪啊

苏27

这句收录在杨鹏长难句里了，因为我不知道上下文，直接贴上来他给出的翻译

（这是一种）照亮现实的欲望，此欲望从来就不会唐突的取代后面的那种欲望，后者是我们可以将其部分的理解为一个兼任小说加和科学家的人想要去准确并具体的记录下一朵花的结构和文理的那种意义上的欲望。