1 比较句中的would otherwise have been expected语法结构

英文:Researchers calculated that there were 1,800 more suicides than would otherwise have been expected in the next four months

问:这里的would otherwise have been expected的语法结构怎么理解,谢谢!

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Researchers calculated that there were 1,800 more suicides than would otherwise have been expected in the next four months.

= Researchers calculated that there were 1,800 more suicides than it would otherwise have been expected that there would be in the next four months.

即比较分句省略了形式主语it 和真正主语从句that there would be. 主句的比较项为1,800 more suicides,其在比较分句的对应项为there would be后的主语,必须省略,不能补全。

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刘永科   - 教育出版集团英语总顾问 & 英语系列图书主编
擅长:语法理论,语言学,文化背景

Researchers calculated that there were 1,800 more suicides than would otherwise have been expected in the next four months.

【翻译】研究人员预测,在未来四个月内,自杀人数将比原本预期的要多出1800人。

【分析】网友的句子中含有more...than...结构,在此就不分析了。此外,than 引导的从句是一个“含蓄条件”虚拟语气句。这个含蓄条件就是otherwise,它的意思是:“要不然;与之相反”。本句的otherwise 就是“与之相反”的意思。由于是个比较句式,所以,这层意思可以不用翻译出来。

would have been expected 表示“与过去事实不符”:事实是比“原本预期的多出1800人,说明原来预期得不正确,与事实不一致”。

又如:

He reminded me of what I would otherwise have forgotten.

幸亏他及时提醒我,要不然我就忘了。

We must care for the weak who would otherwise fall by the wayside. 

我们要关心那些弱者, 不然他们会因失败而放弃努力的。

来自辞典例句

我把它们分别分成两句,就好理解了:

He reminded me of that; otherwise, I would  have forgotten it.

We must care for the weak, otherwise they would otherwise fall by the wayside.  


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陈才   - 英语教师
擅长:中考英语,词法问题

Researchers calculated that there were 1,800 more suicides than would otherwise have been expected in the next four months. 

参考译文:研究人员计算出/估计/推算,在接下来的四个月里,自杀人数比原本预计的要多出1800人.

(1)比较代词than后面省略与主句相同的部分,比较状语从句补充完整为:

than that there would be in the next four months would otherwise have been expected .如果把that从句用形式主语it替换就是下面的句子

than it would otherwise have been expected that there would be in the next four months

(2)would otherwise have been expected 表示过去事实相反的一种假设。

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zbr1016.
【个人观点】首先这句话作者的关注点是事后统计时间, Calculated.这个时间。如果是预测的话,宾语从句会用过去将来时( That there would be)。would have been expected,是基于统计时间之前的预测。意思是,“实际发生的,比原本预测的要多1800人。”
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