求分析一个句子。。。

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Allen's work is a rather extreme example of the "country community" school of seventeenth-century English history whose intemperate excesses in removing all national issues from the history of that period have been exposed by Professor Clive Holmes.

来自p1-rc Question #19. 145-07 (22110-!-item-!-188;#058&000145-07)

godld

Allen's work is a rather extreme example, a example of the country community school of 17th-century English history. The school's intemperate excesses in removing all national issues from the 17th-century English history have been revealed by Professor Holmes.

分开说意思不连贯，像对小孩子讲话，所以就连起来了，像原文那样。原文强调的是Allen的作品是当时普遍趋势下的一个极端例子，其他信息是次要的，可以起到引出下文的作用。

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godld 发表于 2013-4-29 23:03
Allen's work is a rather extreme example, a example of the country community school of 17th-century  ...

那这里rather的意思就只是一个副词咯？？

godld

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godld 发表于 2013-4-29 23:29
嗯呐~

还是关于这个阅读的。
We are not told in what way, if at all, this discovery illuminates historical understanding.  

这里的if at all 做插入语到底是怎么弄得？？可以这样理解么：if we are not told in what way at all, this discovery illuminates historical understanding???

godld

if at all作为意思的缓和（当问题过于尖锐、语气过于肯定等情况下），是idiom。We are not told in what way，说到这里时，听者也许表示不服气，这时加上 if at all，有缓冲语意，做让步的意思。

例句：
1、你无法做到Gmat考800分，if at all。
2、做题时遇到“if at all”直接忽视之，GMAC不可能将“if at all”的意思作为考点，if at all。

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godld 发表于 2013-5-1 10:25
if at all作为意思的缓和（当问题过于尖锐、语气过于肯定等情况下），是idiom。We are not told in what wa ...

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