请教曹老师:
If you are catching a train, it is always better to be comfortably early than even a fraction of a minute too late. Although being early may mean wasting a little time, this will be less than if you miss the train and have to wait an hour or more for the next one; and you avoid the frustration of arriving at the very moment when the train is drawing out of the station and being unable to get on it. An even harder situation is to be on the platform in good time for a train and still to see it go off without you. Such an experience befell a certain young girl the first time she was traveling alone.
有参考书上说:
1) it is always better to be comfortably early than even a fraction of a minute too late. = to be comfortably early is always better than even a fraction of a minute too late (is). 正确吗?
2) this will be less than if you miss the train and have to wait an hour or more for the next one = this will be less than an hour or more you have to wait for the next one (is) if you miss the train. 正确吗?
3) An even harder situation is to be on the platform in good time for a train and still to see it go off without you. = An even harder situation is (for you) to be on the platform in good time for a train and still (for you) to see it go off without you. 正确吗?
以上3个问题,麻烦老师分析指正,谢谢。
1 不定式是真正主语,than分句的主语也应该是不定式作主语,所以even a fraction ...前应该有to be. 句末省略了系词is。表语为比较对应项必须省略。
2 This指代the wasted time即浪费的时间,比较分句省略了相同的主语浪费的时间和系词is,表语为比较对应项必须省略,所以比较分句只保留了if条件状语从句。
3 to be和to see二个不定式在此都是泛指,即逻辑主语为人、人们,无需补充逻辑主语。补上for you/for one/for a person也可以,但没有必要。
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