专家请看以下句子:
And there are the townsfolk who largely live off the tourists who come, not to see the plays, but to look at Anne Hathaway's Cottage, Shakespeare's birthplace and the other sights.
【我的疑问】"not to see the plays...(直到结尾)"是不定式to作目的状语对吗?
如何理解to前面加上not?
谢谢专家。
not...but...是关联并列连词,连接相等的句法结构,否定前项,肯定后项。本句中不定式为目的状语,not to do A, but to do B. 不是为了做A事情,而是为了做B事情。
who come,not to see the plays, but to look at...
= Who don't come to see the plays but (who come) to look at...
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And there are the townsfolk who largely live off the tourists who come, not to see the plays, but to look at Anne Hathaway's Cottage, Shakespeare's birthplace and the other sights.
【翻译】而且,有一些市民主要靠游客生活,他们(游客)不是来看戏的,而是去看安妮·海瑟薇的小屋,莎士比亚的出生地和其他景点。
从翻译即可看出:not to see the plays 和but to look at... 是两个并列的不定式,放在come 之后,作目的状语。逻辑主语是关系代词who(the tourists)。
live off:依靠......为生。
not..., but... 意为:“不是......,而是......”。
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