Re: [请益] New york times其中一段

楼主: dharma720 (小金猪)   2014-11-16 17:39:59
※ 引述《wowhanhow (我很好)》之铭言:
: 原文出处 http://ppt.cc/Pl4x
: 问题一:
: It was as if the only way any of us could be sure that my body was clear of
: infection was for me to officially become a better person.
: 这段话我无法理解的是连续用了三个Be动词
: 原本是想说
: It was as if the only way [....] for me to officially become a better person
: 这样看来似乎能理解这句再讲什么
: 但在for me之前又多了个was
: 想请问版上强者能否解惑这段句子的正确意思Orz
: 问题二:
: And as friends came by with meals and groceries and showered me with well
: wishes and all manner of questions about my state of mind, the more it
: occurred to me that their hunger for stories of my cosmic transformation was
: rooted less in their concern for my soul than in their culturally ingrained
: need for capital-C “Closure.”
: 同段句子的 capital-C "closure"
: 完全看不懂这两个字的意思@@??
: 是指...??? 资本主义的 closure ???
: ...
: 先谢过了...
1.因为朋友一直问她有没有改变,好像他们确认我恢复健康的方法就是她变成一个更好
的人
2.这段后面有讲,她把这整件事比喻为一个故事,而她的朋友好像在追求一个结束。
capital-C是大写C的意思,大写C的Closure是正式结束的意思。

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