牛氏每日一句 09-5-17 动词与介词之间名词的裸露法

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首先观察这样一个句子：
We need to bring
people together.

在这个句子里，people左边是个动词，右边是个介词。假设我现在突然想在这个句子里表达“这些people都有共同的爱好”，那么这句就变成：
We need to bring
people who have a common interest together.


可是，看到这样的句子，你不觉得bring和together离得有点儿远吗？为了解决这个问题，老外通常是这么说的：
We need to bring
together people who have a common interest.


依此类推，如果我想在一句人话里同时表达如下两个意思：
1. I put the book in the
bag.
2. I bought the book from
the bookstore.


把上面两句合成一句，就变成：I put in
the bag the book (that) I bought from the bookstore.


有了上面的基础，再看比这句还复杂一点的就顺理成章了：
It imposes upon the
past the same determinism that it imposes upon the
present.


如果去掉对determinism修饰的部分，这句其实是：
It imposes the same
determinism upon the past.


怎么样，你也照样子造一个吧？

方法：先造出两个句子。第一句的结构：有宾语的人话 介词短语（找补的部分）；第二句任意，只要包含第一句的宾语即可。
例：1. I gave the money to my
cousin.
2. I
earned the money by working as a babysitter.

组合后：I gave to my cousin the money that I earned by working as a
babysitter.