In its disparity of needs and personalities and ages sharing a common space, its tolerance and resilience, the modern library has the potential to feel, as it did on that wintry morning of the quiz, like nothing so much as a big and rackety family.https://www./news/article/2024/jun/25/how-britains-libraries-provide-more-than-books#:~:text=In%20its%20disparity%20of%20needs,a%20big%20and%20rackety%20family. 

 针对这个句子,有读者通过我的知识星球提出了下面问题:ALICE 提问: 老师好,针对这个句子:
In its disparity of needs and personalities and ages sharing a common space, its tolerance and resilience, the modern library has the potential to feel, as it did on that wintry morning of the quiz, like nothing so much as a big and rackety family.
like nothing so much as a big and rackety这里面是不是有nothing的否定转移翻译?到底是像大家庭还是不像呢?as it did on that wintry morning of the quiz.这里面did是had the potential on的指代吗?这和过去考试清冷早晨一样?参考答案是图片?我不知道像还是不像呢?
这里面是不是有nothing的否定转移翻译?到底是像大家庭还是不像呢? 对应的是句中like nothing so much as这部分: In its disparity of needs and personalities and ages sharing a common space, its tolerance and resilience, the modern library has the potential to feel, as it did on that wintry morning of the quiz, like nothing so much as a big and rackety family.比较的对象是划线的两部分:即现代的图书馆像不像喧闹的大家庭? 上句有很多看点,不过,我们今天只看其中的比较结构,因此,我把上句简化为: In its disparity of needs and personalities and ages sharing a common space, its tolerance and resilience, the modern library has the potential to feel, as it did on that wintry morning of the quiz, like nothing so much as a big and rackety family.=The modern library has the potential to feel like nothing so much as a big and rackety family.首先,这里有强调意味的搭配nothing so much as: a. X looks like nothing so much as Y.这里是比较X和Y,而强调结构nothing so much as自带最高级的意味,因此,a句基本含义就是【X像什么都不如像Y】,也就是【X最像Y】。看到这里,大家可能很纳闷:为什么你能读出这里有最高级的意味?因为我知道这个比较句的构造逻辑。下面我推导给大家看:这里关键是要看出:a句在as后边省去了整个X looks like部分,因此,还原后相当于说:b. X looks like nothing so much as [X looks like] Y.可见,虽说这里比较的是X和Y,但真正的比较对象是nothing和Y。如果对nothing感觉不习惯,那么我把它拆分一下: nothing = not ... anything elsec. X does not look like anything else so much as [X looks like] Y. 此时c句就好理解了,字面意思就是【X像什么都不如它像Y】,也就是X最像Y。其他同义替换句式表达可以有:d. Nothing looks more like X than Y does.(什么也不如Y像X。)e. The thing that X looks most like is Y.(X看起来最像的东西就是Y。)A. The modern library has the potential to feel like nothing so much as a big and rackety family.这里用的是feel like(而不是look like),用上面b句式来改写就是:B. The modern library has the potential to feel like nothing so much as [it feels like] a big and rackety family.基本意思就是“现代图书馆给人感觉完全就像是一个喧闹的大家庭”。 剩下其他c、d、e句式,大家不妨自己仿写一下,我就不再赘述了。a. X looks like nothing so much as Y.a1. X feels like nothing so much as Y.a2. X resembles nothing so much as Y. Battle library on Oxford Road in Reading. Photograph: Martin Godwin/The Guardian
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