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Posthumous Production Danaid Bested Papyrus Raises Tetralogy Utter

en While the new doctrine seems almost certainly correct, the one papyrus fragment raises the specter that another may be unearthed, showing, for instance, that it was a posthumous production of the Danaid tetralogy which bested Sophocles, and throwing the date once more into utter confusion.
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意群训练: While the new doctrin e seem s almost certainly correctthe one papyrus fragmen t raises the specte r that anothe r may be unearthed , showingfor instancethat it wa s a posthumous productio n of the Danaid tetralog y which bested Sophoclesand throwing the dat e once more into utter confusion .

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标志:While the new doctrine seems almost certainly correct,but the one papyrus fragment raises the specter( that another may be unearthed,/showing, for instance, that it was a posthumous production of the Danaid tetralogy which bested Sophocles/,and /throwing the date once more into utter confusion/).

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译文: 尽管这个新学说看起来几乎一定正确, 可是 这个沙草纸的残片引起了这样的恐惧 ,(那就是 另外一个残片可能会被挖掘出来,/显示出,比如说 ,是属于D四部曲的一个作者死后发表的遗作击败了S/,这样就 /重新把作品的年代置于极度的混乱之中/)。

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解释: specter之后的that从句是specter的同位语。从句中有两个分词作状语,中间由and连接。其中以第一个分词结构(showing that it was a posthumous production of the Danaid tetralogy which bested Sophocles)的意思较为难懂,有两个地方要解释一下:

首先,best在这里的用法我们以前很少见到,用作及物动词,是击败后者的意思,等于defeat,overcome,或outdo。

其次,a posthumous production of the Danaid tetralogy这种说法不符合我们的常规想法。我们看到a posthumous production of的时候,根据中文的语言习惯,惯性的到of之后去找人名,但是看到后面跟着的是作品名,就想不通了。与中文不同的是,英文中的“遗作”后面不一定只能接人名,接作品名的时候指的是作品在作者死前未发表的那一部分。比如本文的四部曲,可能作者死前全部写好,但只发表了三部,但是死后发表的遗作第四部击败了S。

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