That's my wife's method, finding ways her life can help others. 我想请问,后面finding ways her life can help others是作什么句子成分。我的一些朋友说这是同位语,但是同位语必须是名词性的,这明显不是名词性的。我认为是状语。。。
这个到底是什么。。求助
答:感觉后半句很别扭,以为打印有误,一搜索,还真找到了原出处。在看全文中:
http://englishonline.gznu.edu.cn/wsjs/englishmajor/textbooks/zhjc/book2/B2u03text.asp 好了,看到了有这句话的这一段:
That's my wife's method, finding ways her life can help others. I've been the beneficiary of that practice many times. The afternoon I had my stroke, Anne was playing bridge with Barbara Sonata, and I was home getting a manicure. When my speech started to slur, the manicurist, a former nurse, immediately phoned Anne. My wife was home within ten minutes and had me at the hospital within an hour.
先看后半句的句子语法结构:finding ways her life can help others. 中her life can help others前面省略了关系词that/in which ,寻找她的人生可以帮助他人的各种方式。这是一个ing 短语,到底是现在分词还是动名词,需要好好考虑。
注意到前面这个是主系表结构,而且主语是指示代词that,指代上文中作者妻子帮助他人的各种事迹。如果是现在分词作伴随情况,则其逻辑主语that与find没有这种主谓关系(也不好说是悬垂分词吧?)。主句的动词为系动词,非实义动词,也不适合有分词短语作状语,表示伴随情况(动作)。
所以我倾向于将它看成是动名词短语,作my wife's method的同位语,用来进一步解释,说明她的处世方式的。
试译: 这就是我妻子的处世方式,寻找各种她能帮助他人的方法。
造一个大家熟悉的同位语的句子:That is my wife, a kind, warm-hearted woman.