※ 引述《joechao119 (怒海孤鸿)》之铭言：
: 标题: [求译] 一小段学术文章
: 时间: Tue Nov 5 21:42:34 2019
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: 原文出处: https://reurl.cc/lLNd3q 在Abstract中间的一段
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: The search for a suitable affordance to guide such attention
: has revealed that the rhythm of pattern generation
: by synaptically perturbed neural nets
: is a quantitative indicator of the novelty of their conceptual output,
: that cadence in turn characterized
: by a frequency and a corresponding temporal clustering
: that is discernible through fractal dimension.
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: 我在理解上主要卡住的两个点是
: 1. 文中their conceptual ouput 的 "their"，是指什么?
: 是synaptically perturbed neural nets?
: 还是更前面出现的such attention?
出现代名词往前回推最接近的指涉位置，their 最靠近的就是
synaptically perturbed neural nets
而且可以注意一下 such attention 的位置，它是不定词 to guide 里面的受词
距离 their 又比 synaptically perturbed neural nets 远上许多
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: 2.文章中,that cadence in turn characterized by 的 "that"，是指什么?
: 是their conceptual output?
: 还是 the novelty? a quantitative indicator?
: 还是只是作为 reveal 后面接的另一个子句?
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以下是我的看法，注意最后"that cadence...through fractal dimension."这句
其实没有任何的"主要动词"，characterized by 使用过去分词表达
而最后一个 that 子句只跟相对应的时间分群有关
所以整句话对我而言只是一个名词补语的地位，至于怎样的名词补语可以突然出现
不用跟别人有文法连接上的交代？ 就是同位语
如果用 Joseph M. Williams 教授在其书中的修辞名词
此处可以视为一个概括性修饰(resumptive modifier)，我直接截原文书的说明：
试比较下列两者：
1. Since mature writers often use resumptive modifiers to extend a line of
thought, we need a word to name what I have not done in this sentence,
which I could have ended at that comma but extended to show you a relative
clause attached to a noun.
2. Since mature writers often use resumptive modifiers to extend a line of
thought, we need a word to name what I have not done in this sentence,
a sentence that I could have ended at that comma but extended to show you
a relative clause attached to a noun.
语感上 2. 会比 1. 来得好，1. 在最后 which 非限定子句那边，给人一种"tacked on"
的感觉，而转为概括性修饰(就只是类似一种同位语)，写作风格上就比较优雅
也不会让句子后半部越来越长(sprawl)
概括性修饰的形成方法：
To create a resumptive modifier, find the noun the tacked-on clause modifies,
pause after it with a "comma", repeat the noun and continue with a
"restrictive" relative clause beginning with "that".
回到原本的句子，此处的 that cadence
可以视为指涉前面的 the rhythm 所形成的概括性修饰(rhythm 此处同义于 cadence)
通常概括性修饰的名词是前面出现过的，而再度使用它，则有给读者音韵徘徊于脑的意味
这里使用同义词算是基本原则的变体，不过还是可以轻易辨识出来
句子还原可以是：
that cadence that is in turn characterized by...
(依照概括性修饰的角度，此处用 the rhythm 会比较好)
: 3."a frequency and a corresponding temporal clustering that is discernible"
: 这句指的是
: a frequency that is discernible, and a corresponding temporal clustering that is discernible
: 还是
: a frequency, and a corresponding temporal clustering that is discernible
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有关这部分可以参考我上一篇回复网友的相关文 https://tinyurl.com/yxu435bx
基本上此处判别很简单，that 引导的形容词子句先行词是相对应的时间分群
因为后面 be 动词为单数 is
以上一些浅见，供你做参考^^
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