英文文法求分析!!?

2016-10-19 3:55 am
In huge numbers, people migrated from rural homes seeking economic opportunities in urban environments.

中文翻譯是「為了尋求經濟上的機會,人們大量的從鄉下遷徙到都市」
我想請問各位大大
既然是表示目的的句子
為什麼seek是ving呢?
為什麼不是to seek??
還是中間省略了什麼?

回答 (3)

2016-10-19 4:57 am
✔ 最佳答案
I don't see any problem using "to seek ..." other than the fact that "... migrate from X to Y" is typically used to specify the movement from location X to location Y. Using "seeking ..." avoids that possible misunderstanding.

Also, "emigrated" probably should have been used instead of the "migrated" in your original sentence.
2016-10-19 7:21 am
In huge numbers, people migrated from rural homes seeking economic opportunities in urban environments.
seeking economic opportunities in urban environment 是「分詞構句」,是述部 migrated from rural homes的修飾語,為副詞性質。用「簡單式」,時間點和主要動詞 migrated「相同」。用「分詞構句」而不用「副詞子句」當修飾語,可以讓全句成為一個較單純的簡單句(simple sentence)。但口語通常改成對等句(compound sentence),以免聽起來文謅謅地,似嫌做作。在語意上,使用「分詞構句」時,目的的作用並不那麼明顯,時間同步較重要。

本句的「分詞構句」也可以改用「不定詞片語」方式,在文法上,仍然是述部的修飾語,而且也是副詞性質。但因為不定詞簡單式的時間點較主要動詞「晚」,所以屬於下一步的動作。當然,不定詞前面如果再加上 in order,就明確的表示這是述部的「目的」了。
2016-10-19 4:21 am
People migrated from rural areas seeking economic opportunities;
seeking=adjective and noun, means looking for ,trying to get the economic mentioned in the activity of doing this migration.


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