在英语学习中,有很多励志的名言句子,其中有一句常说的“where there is a will, there is a way.”这句话是什么意思呢?它的意思是有志者事竟成,仔细分析这句话,不难发现它是由where引导的地点状语从句。哪里有意志力,哪里就有出路。下面从语法角度来分析一下这句话。
Where there is a will 其实可以这样理解,首先把where去掉,按照正常的句子构成规律,there is a will后面应该是具体某一个地方,there is a will in your heart, there is a will in his mind等等。那么in your heart和 in his mind在句中的成分就是地点状语,这里是用where代替了一切可能存在的情况,there is a will in any place. 后面的there is a way就不难理解,way是道路,a way是指与will相对应的道路。鲁迅 先生曾有一句名言,世上本无路,走得人多了就自然成路了。
根据这句名言的翻译我们可以仿造很多类似的句子,where there is water, there is life. Where there is suffering, there is duty.等。 后面的核心词跟前面是密切相关的,就可以用这个句型来造句。Where there is...., there is....
由where引导的地点状语从句跟定语从句如何区分?请看下面句子:This is the place where I lived before. 这是我以前住过的地方。这是由where引导的定语从句,它在句子中是关系副词,作地点状语,前面有表示地点的先行词place。 This是主语,is 谓语, the place表语,where I lived地点状语。
再看这个句子,Wuhan lies where the Changjiang River and the Hanjiang River meet. 武汉位于长江和汉江交界处。这个句子where前是没有先行词,它是从属连词,直接修饰位于动词lies.
这里就有一个问题,where引导的地点状语从句和定语从句能否转换?A tall building was put up at the place where there used to be a desert.这是定语从句,可以换成地点状语从句,把at the place删掉, A tall building was put up where there used to be a desert.
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