标题: 请教：这句话什么意思？ [打印本页] 作者: sususu119 时间: 10-12-2010 15:33 标题: 请教：这句话什么意思？ Too late they understood that the roads would have been theirs to exlpore, and the wonders beyond theirs to conquer, had they waited until they had been tested, approved and empowered.
谁能帮忙分析下语法结构？谢谢！作者: frozen_heart770 时间: 10-12-2010 17:09
今天北京大风，脑子给吹的一锅粥。
现在忙着做统计，回家从新看过再说，对不起楼上楼下了。
[ 本帖最后由 frozen_heart770 于 10-12-2010 19:21 编辑 ]作者: 马二小 时间: 10-12-2010 17:17
俺来试一试。
it is too late when they understood that the roads would have been theirs to exlpore, and the wonders beyond theirs to conquer, because they waited until they had been tested, approved and empowered.
It's too late they understood that .... 他们明白that 下面所有时。。。太迟了
that 下面有两层意思 explore roads, conque wonders
they had waited untill....把 had 提前 是强调的加强语气作者: yearshappy 时间: 11-12-2010 10:09
1）正如 yping88 所说， 整句是描述与事实不一样的虚拟语句，所以用 would 和一律 过去时态的种种， 如 understood, would, had waited, had ...
2) 被动， 被动，被动很多，再加上虚拟，以及完成时态 ， 就成了 would have been there , had been texted, have been approved, had been empowered ...作者: sususu119 时间: 11-12-2010 20:58
谢谢各位的解释，由于原文内容太多了，所以不方便贴上来。
结合原文理解，我感觉yping88同学的解释比较接近，只是不明白，because they waited 为什么要这么翻译（如果他们等到），这里明明用的是because啊。作者: funnybird 时间: 13-12-2010 11:26 标题: 回复 #9 sususu119 的帖子 总结ls诸位老师的话，学生我尝试着解释一下哈：如果按虚拟语气，原文这样倒置可能更容易理解 -
(It is) too late they understood that the roads would have been theirs to explore, and the wonders beyond theirs to conquer, (if) they had (not) waited until they had been tested, approved and empowered.
