The first offerings of a penny paper tended to be highly sensational; human interest stories overshadowed important news, and crime and sex stories were written in full detail. But as the penny paper attracted readers from various social and economic brackets, its sensationalism was modified.
廉价报纸首次提供给我们的是非常耸人听闻的新闻……
问题:此句中offering是动名词做什么成分呢?为什么要加 s ?谢谢老师!
截取自阅读文章,文章讲a panny paper“廉价报纸”。
【重要词语解释】
1. penny paper:大众报;便士报(指英国19世纪,售价为一便士一张的报纸,比喻廉价报纸)
2. offering:是可数名词,不是动名词。其本义是:“提供品;出售物;奉献物;祭品”。被newspaper 修饰后,指“刊登的文章、报道、故事、逸闻等”,统称为“出版物;发行品”。意为所有印刷在报纸上的东西。既然offering 是可数名词,而且指上述内容,用复数是完全正确的。
3. the first offerings:第一批出版物,首次发行。
The first offerings of a a penny paper tended to be highly sensational; human interest stories overshadowed important news, and crime and sex stories were written in full detail. But as the penny paper attracted readers from various social and economic brackets, its sensationalism was modified.
【翻译】大众报(便士报)的首次发行往往具有高度的轰动效应;人性的故事超过了重要新闻的风头,犯罪和性爱的故事被写得非常津津有味。但是,由于该报吸引了来自不同社会和经济阶层的读者,它的哗众取宠之风也随之改变了。
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