1. Her father and mother had both known this instinctively.
【要点提示】both在这里做副词用,放于助动词之后,行为动词之前。
2. She simply adored being adored.
【要点提示1】simply是副词,位于实意动词前。
【要点提示2】这个句子中有2个adore,词性一样,意思也不同。第一个adore是做动词用,意思是“非常喜欢”,而第二个adore意思则是“敬慕,崇拜,敬仰”。
【要点提示3】用adore表示“喜欢做某事”,和like,love一样,后面接动词的话,要用动名词形式。该句子中的being adore就是动名词,被动语态的动名词形式就是:being+动词的过去式。
3. For her most important adviser, her surrogate father, William Cecil, charisma was no substitute for the one thing which would secure the future of a Protestant England , an heir.
【结构剖析】这个句子是一个含有定语从句的复合句。
主句是:charisma was no substitute for the one thing;从句是:which would secure the future of a Protestant England。从句是修饰主句中的先行词thing,先行词为不定代词,指代物,在定语从句中做主语,只能选择关系代词which来引导,不能用that。此外,先从此在定语从句中做主语,关系代词不能省略。
For her most important adviser, her surrogate father, William Cecil就是一个介词短语做状语。这个状语中含有2个同位语。第一个是:her surrogate father,它是adviser的同位语,说明adviser的身份,是扮演者父亲的角色。第二个是:William Cecil,它做 father的同位语,说明其姓名。