剝掉復雜句子外衣——去除過去分詞

去除過去分詞

①我們在前面講述了如何辨別不定式和現(xiàn)在分詞的結構并進行刪減，過去分詞的作用和它們一樣，也可以做后置定語修飾名詞。過去分詞一般表示的是被動語態(tài)。其實，過去分詞做后置定語時，其形式是對定語從句的省略。

The poet known in the country passed away last week.

這個句子原來是這樣的：

The poet who was known in the country passed away last week.

這句話中，who was known in the country 是定語從句，所以可以刪去，last week 是修飾passed away 的，也可以刪去，所以句子剩下的主干信息就是：The poet passed away.

②有很多時候，過去分詞會放在句子的開頭，其構成是對狀語從句的省略，因為狀語從句的主語和主句的主語是一致的。

Asked the question, I was silent.（過去分詞形式）

As I was asked the question, I was silent.（狀語從句形式）

上面這兩個句子意思是一樣的。由于狀語從句是對句子的修飾，可以刪去，所以過去分詞形式也是可以刪去的。刪去以后，句子就變?yōu)榱薎 was silent.是不是覺得句子特別簡單了？

現(xiàn)在讓我們做一下練習吧！

1.This book is a best-seller bought by many youths.

2.The film loved by many couples was very interesting.

3.Located in town, our shop get many consumers streaming in and out.

4.After left alone at night, I was very lonesome.

5.Many people laughing, I saw many novels badly thumbed.

超強實踐

Galway Kinnell, the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet whose work explored themes of nature, religion and human rights, died Tuesday of leukemia at 87 in Sheffield, Vt., reports the New York Times.

Kinnell wrote more than a dozen books of poetry in a career that spanned five decades.Among his best-known works are “The Book of Nightmares” (1973), “When One Has Lived a Long Time Alone”(1990) and “Selected Poems” (1982), which won the Pulitzer Prize and the National BookAward.

A native of Rhode Island, Kinnell was born in Providence and raised in the nearby town of Pawtucket.He attended Princeton University, where he was friends with W.S.Merwin, the future U.S.poet laureate.

In a 1985 appearance at Chapman College, the Los Angeles Times reported that Kinnell was characteristically reticent when asked personal questions.After a student asked if he could “tell us a little bit about your life,” Kinnell responded, “Well, I could tell you a little bit.I could tell you a lot, but I won't.” He continued, “I was a very silent child, almost mute.I think everybody was too busy to talk to me.I developed a big sense of isolation from others.Gradually I felt that if I was ever going to have a happy life, it was going to have to do with poetry.”

Kinnell was politically active in the 1960s.He was an outspoken opponent of the Vietnam War, and as a member of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), he was once arrested in Louisiana after a workplace integration protest.

In an interview with the Burlington (Vermont) Free Press, Kinnell's friend Philip Levine, former U.S.poet laureate, said Kinnell never discussed his arrest:“He wouldn't do anything that would ever sound like boasting.He's a real American in a way.He's the kind of person that this country created and hopefully still creates.People from nowhere somehow invent themselves.They say, ‘I'm gonna be a poet, and I'm gonna be a good person.'”

刪減版

Galway Kinnell, the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet whose work explored themes of nature, religion and human rights, died Tuesday of leukemia at 87 in Sheffield, Vt., reports the New York Times.

Kinnell wrote more than a dozen books of poetry in a career that spanned five decades.Among his best-known works are “The Book of Nightmares” (1973), “When One Has Lived a Long Time Alone”(1990) and “Selected Poems” (1982), which won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award .

A native of Rhode Island, Kinnell was born in Providence and raised in the nearby town of Pawtucket.He attended Princeton University, where he was friends with W.S.Merwin, the future U.S.poet laureate .

In a 1985 appearance at Chapman College, the Los Angeles Times reported that Kinnell was characteristically reticent when asked personal questions.After a student asked if he could “tell us a little bit about your life ,”Kinnell responded,“Well, I could tell you a little bit.I could tell you a lot, but I won't.”He continued, “I was a very silent child, almost mute.I think everybody was too busy to talk to me .I developed a big sense of isolation from others ...Gradually I felt that if I was ever going to have a happy life, it was going to have to do with poetry.”

Kinnell was politically active in the 1960s.He was an outspoken opponent of the Vietnam War, and as a member of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), he was once arrested in Louisiana after a workplace integration protest.

In an interview with the Burlington (Vermont) Free Press, Kinnell's friend Philip Levine, former U.S.poet laureate, said Kinnell never discussed his arrest:“He wouldn't do anything that would ever sound like boasting.He's a real American in a way.He's the kind of person that this country created and (hopefully) (still) creates.People from nowhere somehow invent themselves.They say, ‘I'm gonna be a poet, and I'm gonna be a good person.'”