Manhattan SC 过去完成时特殊用法疑问?
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问得好!
[1] 这个用过去完成时是一个 exception to the general rule (一般规则的例外).
[2] The general rule 一般规则是(a) past perfect,(b) simple past,(c) now.
例:"When we arrived at the theater,the movie had started."
Timeline:(1) movie began,(2) we arrived,(3) now.
[3] It's a truly tricky sentence...如果不是 "less than ten years later",这个例外(exception) 是不能成立的.
[4] 发表于 2011-6-12 的一个讲解如下:
[5] 发表于 2014-7-10 的另一个讲解如下:"The writer used the past perfect "had eclipsed" to tell us that this action was already complete before a point in time
that occurred less than ten years after U2 was just one of many bands
in the early 1980s.By the time mentioned in the sentence - less than
ten years later - U2 had already eclipsed the other bands."
