这里could是表过去的能力还是过去的推测呢?

In my heart was a desire to live more dangerously. I was not unprepared for jagged rocks and treacherous shoals if I could only have change - change and the excitement of the unforeseen.

1)In my heart was a desire to live more dangerously 是否少了不定式的形式主语it, 即In my heart (it) was a desire to live more dangerously ?

2)  if I could only have change 这里could是表过去的能力还是过去的推测呢? 另外这里的only是加强语气“只能,别无他法”的意思吧?


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In my heart was a desire to live more dangerously. 

这是一个完全倒装句,介词短语作表语前置,主语后移。不定式是desire的定语,不是主语。

2 could既不是表示能力,也不是表示推测,而是表示客观条件允许,即所谓理论上的可能性。

if I could only have...= if only I could have..., 只要..., 引导条件状语从句,表示充分条件。

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In my heart was a desire to live more dangerously. I was not unprepared for jagged rocks and treacherous shoals if I could only have change - change and the excitement of the unforeseen.
1)In my heart was a desire to live more dangerously 是否少了不定式的形式主语it, 即In my heart (it) was a desire to live more dangerously ?
——完全倒装句。In my heart was a desire to live more dangerously. = A desire to live more dangerously was in my heart.
2)  if I could only have change 这里could是表过去的能力还是过去的推测呢? 另外这里的only是加强语气“只能,别无他法”的意思吧?
——指能力。only 是用来强调的 。


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