上面图片当中的最后一句话here's what researchers think is happening,我感觉在think后面应该加上it才对,这个it就是指代着上面所描述的猫下坠的现象。
请教,如此理解是不是正确?
So, here's what researchers think is happening. ——在think后面不能加上it,这是嵌入式名词性关系分句。researchers think 为嵌入部分,可以省掉不说,what is happening 为名词性关系分句,what 作句子主语。关于嵌入式名词性关系分句,就是在名词性关系分句中加上一个“主谓结构”(researchers think),让what is happening 做其宾语,但地方放在what 之后。比如:
1. Say what you think is most urgent.
拣重要的说。《新英汉大辞典》
2. Just do what you think is right.《牛津词典》
3. This is what he thinks is important.
【剖析第三句】what isimportant 是 hethinks的宾语从句。what=thething which, 所以本句等于:
This is the thing which he thinks isimportant. 这就成了嵌入式定语从句了。