I promise you this. Your crew so much as lights a firecracker on the east side of Dolton Park, I will make sure you less enlightened associates get a copy of that videotape.
1.这是今天看到的一个句子,这里的so much as并不是用于了否定句中,但用so不用as,句子的否定意义体现在了哪里?
2.然后这个句子该如何补全?是要补全为"You crew (do) as much as lights..."吗?
3.我搜索了一下相关的帖子:http://ask.yygrammar.com/app_q-32638.html,
但是对(not) so...as to do结构还是没理解透彻,比如:
He doesn't (do) so much as (to) invite his best friends.
这个结构中as是连词,那它后面为啥直接接了不定式,as后面省略了类似主语的什么东西吗?还有much是代词作do的宾语,还是副词修饰do?
这位网友对于比较结构有一个错误的认识,以为所有more than/so much as/as much as 都是可以或需要或能够还原为一个完整的比较分句。在语言的发展演变过程中,有些比较结构已经成了固定用法,被人们当作一个副词在使用,这种用法成为idiomatic use。例如,
I have more than 10 English books. 此句中的more than就是一个副词,等于over。你是无法还原出一个完整的比较分句来的。
同理,so much as除了可是普通的比较结构,也可以一个复合副词。例如下句中的so much as就是副词用法,等于even:
He didn't so much as invite his best friends.
= He didn't even invite his best friends.
Free Dictionary:
so much as
adv.
Used as an intensive to indicate something unexpected; even:
He wouldn't so much as look at me.
所以,网友应该知道比较结构的习语性用法,即副词性性用法,不要试图去进行所谓的还原,那是死胡同,是对语言现象的错误理解。
作为副词,so much as多用在否定句或疑问句中,词典或语法书中没见到过在肯定句中使用。你的例句中,二个分句用逗号连接,不是标准的英语结构。从语义分析,逗号前应该是表示条件兼让步意义,所以这个分句可以理解等于even if引导的从句:
Your crew so much as lights a firecracker on the east side of Dolton Park, I will make sure your less enlightened associates get a copy of that videotape.
= Even if your crew lights a firecracker on the east side of Dolton Park, I will make sure your less enlightened associates get a copy of that videotape.
Free Dictionary关于as much as作为idiom的释义,注意释义3:
as much as
1. 略
2. 略
3. Also, so much as. In effect, nearly the same as, as in Mom as much as told Jane she couldn't go, or The clerk so much as accused the customer of shoplifting. These expressions intensify the meaning of the verb and indicate that the action is unexpected. [Late 1300s]
由此可知,普通比较结构中,so much as用于否定结构,但在idiomatic用法中,so much as可以用如as much as, 即用在肯定句中,意为 in effect, nearly the same. 强调动词的意义,并提示动作的发生是出乎意料的。
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