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It is recounted of Thomas Carlyle that when he heard of the illness of his friend, Henry Taylor, he went off immediately to visit him, carrying with him in his pocket what remained of a bottle of medicine formerly prescribed for an indisposition of Mrs. Carlyle’s.

译文:据说托马斯.卡莱尔有过这么一件事:他听说朋友亨利.泰勒病了,就立刻跑去看他,衣袋里装上了他妻子不舒服时吃剩下的一瓶药。

问题1. It is recounted of中的of 是什么作用,recounted在此处好像不是作形容词,不是像it is kind of you一样的这种理解思路

问题2.第二个黑体of又是什么作用?解析上说:of a bottle of medicine ... of Mrs. Carlyle’s what 的定语, 意即“他妻子不舒服时吃剩下的一瓶药”。但还是不理解。

问题3.这个是名词所属格,按我们中国人的理解为什么不能是:a friend of me 而是mine呢,不是the car of Dr. Lee而是the car of Dr. Lee’s呢?

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最佳答案 2022-12-04 12:36

问题1: 问题中It is recounted of中的of 是什么作用,of的常见含义是属于……”,如:

the back of the house 房子的后部。

也就是说这个后部属于这个房子的,于是可以联想这个后部与这个房子有关。因此,问题中的of 在本句中做与……有关讲。recounted有讲述,叙述的含义,那么它讲述,叙述的是什么呢?是that when he heard of the illness of his friend, Henry Taylor, he went off immediately to visit him, carrying with him in his pocket what remained of a bottle of medicine formerly prescribed for an indisposition of Mrs. Carlyle’s. that引导的主语从句就是讲述、叙述的内容,而这个内容与Thomas Carlyle有关,说白了就是讲的是发生在Thomas Carlyle身上一件事。整个句子意思大致是:

People told a story about Thomas Carlyle. Once he heard one of his friends, Henry Taylor, was ill, he went off immediately to visit him. Mr Carlyle wife had been ill and taken the medicine. Now there was some left in a bottle of medicine. So it was strange he had them for Henry Taylor.

问题2:第二个黑体of又是什么作用,of 在本质还是当属于讲。解析上说:of a bottle of medicine ... of Mrs. Carlyle’s what 的定语是对的。在这里的what含义是the thing which,of a bottle of medicine ... of Mrs. Carlyle’s修饰the thing,然后再用which引导一个定语从句加以评论,修饰。这样,the thing被两个定语修饰,一个是of a bottle of medicine formerly prescribed for an indisposition of Mrs. Carlyle’s.,第二个被which  remained修饰。 

问题3: 这个是名词所属格是英文双重属格用法,这里的of含有全体与部分的关系。the back of the house 房子的后部,后部属于房子,后部是部分,房子是整体。比如:

He is a friend of my father's friends. 我父亲有很多朋友,他只是我父亲众多当中一个,部分与整体关系,英语习惯上把friends省掉,于是就有He is a friend of my father's。这方面可以阅读有关语法书。

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