To error is human; to forgive, divine.
divine前的逗号是相当于is吗?
如果因为前后两句相同成分省略,那么is省略,即不用逗号是否可以?
张道真《英语语法大全》下册第 428 页的说法就可以解释你这个问题:
17. (逗号)和分号一道表示某些重复的词已被省略:
John has one; Mary, two.
但:John has
one, Mary two.
Reading
makes a full man; conference, a ready man.
但:Reading
makes a full man, conference a ready man.
Egyptians give us agriculture; Romans, law.
My father takes care of John; my mother, Mary.
Painters express
their feeling by forms and colours; musicians, by sounds; poets, by words.