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I’ve been teaching college students on and off for 25 years. Over the last few years, students have become much less willing to argue with one another in class. They don’t want to be viciously judged. It’s not even that they are consciously afraid of being canceled. It’s simply that the norm of non-argumentativeness in public has settled over many (but not all) parts of campus culture.

曹老师您好,我想请教下,这里的"afraid of being canceled"怎么理解,为什么是被取消

Friendly warnings didn't change our planning, although we might have more prudently checked with the U.S. State Department's list of trouble spots.

老师这里的"might have checked"如何理解?

这里用"although"连接,和前面的逻辑关系不是很明白。

No guides were available so it was do-it-yourself, using our guidebook, which cheated us of a lot of interesting history and anecdotes that a professional guide could provide.

老师这里的"could"是理解为情态动词表推测→“可能嘛?

万分期待曹老师的回复,万分感谢!!!

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最佳答案 2023-07-27 18:26

1 cancel somebody 为俚语,意为To reject, spurn, disregard, or permanently dismiss someone. 这个意义的cancel用为被动语态,则为被拒绝,被人无视、不理睬。afraid of being canceled 意为害怕被人拒绝或无视。

2 might have done中的might属于让步从句中的虚拟语气。例如:I won't marry you, although you are rich. (陈述语气) I won't marry you, although you may be rich. (虚拟语气) He failed although he had tried hard. (陈述语气) He failed although he might have tried hard.  (虚拟语气)

3 这里的could不是推测性用法,而是表示能力的意思。

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