The lonely inventor working in his basement and the scientific genuis isolated in the ivory tower have vanished-they are replaced by corps of skilled research teams in modern air-conditioned buildings.
1.have vanished可改成had vanished,vanish或vanished嗎?
2.若可，那麼意思各有何不同?
英文問題---現在完成式
2011-05-20 4:28 am
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2011-05-20 7:17 am
✔ 最佳答案
The lonely inventor working in his basement and the scientific genuis isolated in the ivory tower have vanished-they are replaced by corps of
skilled research teams in modern air-conditioned buildings.
解析
破折號後面的句子是現在時態的被動式
vanished與had vanished都是對過去事件的敘述, 時態不符, 先行排除.
vanish是現在式, 意思是絕跡, 在語意上絕跡與取代並非同時發生, 而是有先後的, 兩者都用現在式並不適當; 所以絕跡要用現在完成式have vanished, 取代則用被動的現在式are replaced.
翻譯
工作於地下室的孤寂發明家與隔離在象牙塔中的科學天才都已絕跡 -- 取而代之的是處於現代冷氣房中各類熟練的研究團隊.
參考: 英文文法與翻譯經驗
2011-05-22 12:25 am
vanish的語意上具有延續性，一旦消失，則延續到說話的當時，除非本文本來就是過去式，否則一定要用have vanished，澄清完成式觀念看這裡
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