句首“(as) a/an +名词”,可以指主语以外的成分
一般来说,比较常见的句式是这样的,as结构与主语关联:
1. As a scientist,he was dedicated to the truth.
作为一名科学家,他献身于真理。(《英语常见问题解答大词典》)
2. As a parent, I feel that more should be done to protect our children. (《朗文高阶》)
身为家长,我觉得应该多做些事来保护我们的孩子。
3. As a young man, Eliot had studied art in Paris. (《朗文高阶》)
年轻时,艾略特在巴黎学画画。
4. As a pacifist, I'm against all wars. (Merriam-Webster'advanced Learner's Dictionary)
但有时候,as指主语以外的成分,或者与主语的定语关联:
5. As an outsider, the Koran strikes me as a reforming book, trying to return Judaism and Christianity to their origins, much as reformers attempted to do with the Christian church centuries later. (Tony Blair, Foreign Affairs, Jan. /Feb. 2007)
对于我这样一个身处其外的人来说,《古兰经》给我的印象是一本改革的书,它要让犹太教和基督教回到自己的本源,正像几个世纪以后基督教会内部的改革派所企图做的那样。
【分析】句中as an outsider指宾语me的身份,而非主语theKoran。
6. As a doctor, my duty is to preserve life.
作为医生,我的义务就是维护生命。
【分析】句中as a doctor和主语的定语my关联。
7. As a British ambassador in that period, his advice to London heavily favored the opposition.
作为那个时期的英国大使,他向伦敦提出的主张明显地偏向在野派一方。
8. As the Leon County supervisor of elections, Jon Sancho's job is to make sure voting is free of fraud. (The Washington Post, Jan. 22, 2006, A6)
作为莱昂郡的选举督察员,桑却的任务是保证选举不出现舞弊现象。
9. An instant bestseller across the North, the book’s impact matched that of Tom Paine’sCommon Sense in 1776.
(American History: A Very ShortIntroduction)
10. Albert Einstein was born in 1879.As a child,few people guessed that he was going to be a famous scientist whose theories would change the world.
(2015浙江高考英语——这个题目我请教一些老外,他们都觉得As a child后面直接是fewpeople有些辣眼睛)
总结,例句1-4是常态,是规范用法。例句5-10给说话人或者写作者带来方便,但有时候会引起争议。比如例10,老外就觉得不合适。
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