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例如:

1.English may be difficult to learn,but I like it very much.

虽然英语也许不容易学,可我很喜欢它。

2.She tried hard,yet,she failed.

她尽管很努力,还是失败了。

3.He has been in office for only a month,he has,however, achieved more than any of his predecessors.

尽管他上任只有一个月,然而他的工作却比任何前任都有成就。

And连接的两个并列分句,也可表达让步,至于哪个分句表达让步意义,要视其上下文分析判定,试比较:

I cannot keep these trees alive,and I have watered them well.

尽管一直细心浇水,可还是没法使这些树成活。

She tried hard in the new experiment and she failed.

尽管在新实验中她努力地工作,可还是失败了。

五、介词(介词短语)或分词结构表达让步意义

介词with,despite,in spite of等或介词短语for all,after all等在特定的上下文或特定的语境中,可以表达或隐含让步意义。例如:

1. With all his wealth,he could never again be happy like before.

不管怎样富有,他再也不能像从前那么快乐。

2.Despite bitter opposition,they adopted the proposal.

尽管遭到了激烈反对,他们还是通过了此项提议。

3.He failed after all.

他还是失败了。

分词短语在特定的场合,同样可表达让步意义。例如:

Granting the achievement to be great,we have no reason to be conceived.

即使取得了巨大成就,我们也没有理由骄傲自满。

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