请分析一句英语的语法,我实在看不懂,麻烦帮我看 一下。
Usage is the way in which words are actually used in particular contexts, especially with regard to their meanings
申明一下:这句话是英语词典的句子,绝对没有错误。
这是一个英语词典(《柯林斯高阶》)中对单词Usage的解释。
翻译过来是:“(词汇或词组的)用法”指在指定文段中的惯用的方式,尤其是对于这个单词的用法来讲。
对于这个句子,语法分析如下:
[Usage(抽象概念的名词作主语) is the way]························主句,SVP结构
[in(介词提前) which(代替way) words are actually used in particular contexts, especially with regard to their meanings.] ························定语分句,是对way的修饰成分。
这个句子套用了一个定语从句,用来修饰Way。因为way作先行词,后面的定语从句又是用于解释和补充说明具体用什么方式,所以way应当和一个介词结合,在分句中充当方式状语。我们通常用介词 in 来和Way搭配,即:“in a way”,这里which代替了way,所以把in放到which前面。
定语从句中:
in which = in the way (用这种方法)作方式状语
words 主语
are used 谓语(被动语态)
actually 状语
in particular context 介词短语作方面状语
especially with regard to their meanings 状语
全句汉义:用法就是词语在特定语境(上下文)中实际使用的方式,尤其是在它们的意义(含义)方面。
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追问1,especially with regard to their meanings是做谁的状语?Usage is the way?还是in which words are actually used in particular contexts的状语?
2. with regard to their meanings, 为什么用with这个单词,是不是规定搭配,还是其他原因?非常感谢
especially with regard to their meanings 修饰are used
with regard to (关于)是一固定短语,在句中起副词作用,作状语。
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