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Attached to the treasury were a number of public schools equipped for the training of the thousands of scribes whose service were necessary in the keeping of records and accounts and in the administrations of government functions. 国家财政拔款,建立一大批公里学校,培养...

这句话Attached to the treasury were a number of public schools equipped...

我知道be equipped for是为...准备的意思,我总觉得 a number of public school的位置没有放对。难道不应该是“a number of punlic schools attached to the treasury were equipped for" 或者说是a number of public schools were attached to the treasury,equipped for..."吗?

 

 

 

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最佳答案 2021-07-05 17:50

这是个倒装句,正常语序是:A number of public schools (equipped for the training of the thousands of scribes whose service were necessary in the keeping of records and accounts and in the administrations of government functions) were attached to the treasury.

equipped for.......functions这一大坨是修饰public schools的定语,这定语部分太长,读起来得读老半天才能读到后面的谓语部分,后面的谓语部分又太短,所以就把谓语部分放到前面去了。然后把表语部分attached to the treasury提到了句首,系动词were放到了句子的主语前面,构成了倒装句。一是平衡句子结构的需要,二是为了突出重点表示强调。

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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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Attached to the treasury were a number of public schools equipped for the training of the thousands of scribes ...

黑体部分为完全倒装结构:表语 + be + 主语。

equipped for the training of the thousands of scribes... schools  定语。倒装原因就是因为这个太长的定语所致。不然的话,位于句首的主语太长了,句子显得不匀称。


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