今日再同大家看一個長句,它同樣出自 UE 1997 Section C 的閱讀理解。句子是這樣寫的 (lines 46-52) :

It [The West's failure] extends not just to the environment and physical infrastructure of modern Asian societies, which people are amazed to find leave British and many other European cities looking run down and dilapidated, but to the moral and social order they stand.

句子既用上 not just… but… 這個平行結構 (parallel structure) ,也用上兩個關係子句 (relative clause) 。而最令學生費解的,莫過於兩個動詞 findleavepeople are amazed to 之後連在一起。以下時間,我會替讀者拆解以上長句,並且講解動詞 findleave 的一些特殊用法;與此同時,讀者可以順便複習一下關係子句這個語法問題。

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