if for no other reason than怎么分析

You are not fine, If for no other reason than your boss doesn't think so.

Yet despite everything I would still support central bank independence, if for no other reason than that no body has a monopoly of wisdom.

1)请问这里的than从句是否表达了比较意义,分别是谁和谁在比较呢?

2)如果不是表达比较意义,那than从句是修饰了名词reason吗?

3)than是连词,为何第二句后面又用了that从句呢?

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刘永科   - 教育出版集团英语总顾问 & 英语系列图书主编
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1. You are not fine, if for no other reason than your boss doesn't think so.

——这句有误,than 之后缺宾语,需补充一个代词或名词, your boss doesn't think so. 是 if 引导的从句,必须是完整的。这句话应该是这样:
if for no other reason than this your boss doesn't think so.
for no other reason than this 去掉后,句子要仍然成立:if your boss doesn't think so.
than 表示“排除”的含义,我给演绎一下:
(1)for no reason 没有原因地(无缘无故地)
(2) for no other reason than this 只为这个原因(除此之外没有其他原因)
(3)=for no reason other than this 只为这个原因(除此之外没有其他原因)
(4)=only for this reason 只为这个原因
表示比较意义 than,很少单独使用,一般前面都有比较级。除此之外,than 有时可以跟表示排除意义的词语连用,这时前面无需使用比较级。也就是说,没有比较级的时候,多用于different, else, other, no other, none other, otherwise, anywhererather thanwould rather...than 等之后,表示排除意义。
She has no other friend than Jane.
除了简以外,她没有别的朋友。= 她只有简这个朋友。

问题句的错误,就像这句话,than 之后缺少Jane 一样。

 
2. Yet despite everything I would still support central bank independence, if for no other reason than that nobody has a monopoly of wisdom.

——这句正确,结构与上句相同。for no other reason than that 去掉后, if 从句仍然成立。


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