和 Alex119老师交流过两次,他的钻研和敏锐给我印象极深,敏锐而又锲而不舍,看问题多有他个人的心得,钦佩!
胡老师这个问题书上没有现成的解说,但就我看到的几个例子,结合我自己的揣测,我更倾向于Alex老师的看法,我也引用几个例子来具体说明:
1.第一个场景例子
Bank teller Cassie Massey has come to the conclusion that the customer who is currently at her window—Floyd Boyd—may very well be the least intelligent person she has ever met. For the past 25 minutes, Cassie has been trying to explain to Mr. Boyd exactly why he was charged an overdraft fee. Cassie has rephrased her explanation numerous times and has even employed visual aids in the form of pencil-and-paper calculations. Mr. Boyd appears to be just as perplexed as he was when he approached Cassie's window, and he is beginning to get frustrated. At this point, Cassie is beyond being frustrated. She wants to shout, "I can't make it any simpler. It's your job to keep a running total and update it every time you write a check or withdraw cash at an ATM. If you don't do that, you end up trying to spend money you don't have. Then, it's our job to charge you a fee for being careless and stupid!" However, Cassie continues to explain in her "patient" voice, knowing she could damage the bank's reputation and lose her job if she were to say what she really thinks.
这里想表达的应该是,Cassie 这一刻已经不再是失望了,而是绝望的发泄,是超出了失望懊丧这种情绪状态之外更甚的东西。
2. Deidara struggled with his locker door, the lock on it “accidentally” was damaged, and it was a bite trying to open it now. He repeatedly jiggled the handle, but it seemed to be stuck. He was beyond being frustrated now, he was ready to explode. Sadly, Deidara couldn’t even if he tried, his clay was stashed inside the swirling vortex of chaos, AKA, his stubborn locker.
同样,这里表达的是,他现在不再是失望了,而是(超出这种情绪)后的随时爆炸了。
3. I read the Hill with an awareness that they tend to have a right leaning perspective, so I recognize that this woman’s representation that “Nunes gave a sort of general apology” may have had stronger statements attached. I’m beyond being frustrated by the reactions and statements to this Nunes breach of ethics. Same for having Sessions caught red handed having perjured himself under oath. It doesn’t matter how insignificant the perjury was, it’s perjury and it demands a resignation. 我对努涅斯违反道德准则的反应和声明不仅仅感到沮丧了。代之的是另外一种情感状态了,‘不管做伪证多么微不足道,这就是伪证,这就要求他辞职。’ 不再失望,而是进一步要求辞职的情绪了。
4. I am beyond being frustrated and I do not know what else to try to resolve this.
这是Windows系统出现问题,某人怎么都无法解决后,写出的句子。情况应该是,他试啊试啊,用尽了他的各种办法也无济于事,于是他已经不再是失望了,他是绝望了,不再试图自己解决问题,因此也就无所谓失望了,所以求助。
5. The service is pathetic, I also bought a 4G sim card from them, it requires a PUK number. I am stuck with no help and behind with my work because of this. It has been over 3 weeks now and I have sent many messages to their customer support but till today, no help. I am beyond being frustrated now....
6. Migrants' advocate 'beyond frustrated' with Ontario's $10M for farm safety
安大略为农场安全投入1000万加元,移民倡导者极其失望”(这是标题)
“It’s beyond being frustrated ,” Ramsaroop said. “The most vulnerable continue to suffer.” 标题表示的是移民拥护者对政策措施的极大失落感,而收尾句用beyond being frustrated,似要表示对这些易受伤害的人们还在继续遭受苦难一事,这不应是仅仅让人感到失望的事了,而应该做些什么。
7. Beyond being frustrated, it’s just disheartening. 这里好像说是程度的加深,也可以看作性质的改变。
这些是从上下文揣摩出来的意思差别,从形式本身,我个人认为,也可以分辨端倪。being frustrated 表示一种进行中的一种情绪状态,含有行为状态的意味较浓,而仅仅用形容词则趋向于行为性质本身,所以Beyond frustrated 表示程度的加强,极其,非常的意思,而 Beyond being frustrated则是超越了这一状态,在行为或情绪性质上有改变。这种改变从某种角度看也算是一种表面的否定吧。
个人观点,仅供参考!