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请问这句话怎么翻译

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p*r2011-09-20 07:09

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The scholar must needs stand wistful and admiring before this great
spectacle
《American Scholar》 --Emerson
这句话我连语法结构都没看懂，对照张爱琳版本的翻译，也是完全摸不着头脑，有没有
高手能翻译一下。谢谢咯

wh2011-09-20 07:09

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must needs以前说是黑人英语用法，其实就是must的意思。整句就是scholar must
stand wistful and admiring before this great spectacle，敬畏人生……想起史怀
泽的名言“敬畏生命”。

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: The scholar must needs stand wistful and admiring before this great
: spectacle
: 《American Scholar》 --Emerson
: 这句话我连语法结构都没看懂，对照张爱琳版本的翻译，也是完全摸不着头脑，有没有
: 高手能翻译一下。谢谢咯

s*y2011-09-20 07:09

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不错啊，你的黑人英文还挺好的，赞

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: must needs以前说是黑人英语用法，其实就是must的意思。整句就是scholar must
: stand wistful and admiring before this great spectacle，敬畏人生……想起史怀
: 泽的名言“敬畏生命”。

p*r2011-09-20 07:09

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inspiring. Thx
Could you explain to me what the expression "must needs" can mean. I come
across it quite often in the literature but haven't a slightest idea about
what does it mean. Here is an example of such phrase from the "Alice in
Wonderland":
"...and just as I was thinking I should be free of them at last, they must
needs come wriggling down from the sky..."
Thank you in advance.
SOURCE OF QUESTION & DATE OF RESPONSE
Minsk, Belarus Thu, Feb 15, 2001
GRAMMAR'S RESPONSE
The word "needs" in that peculiar context is functioning as an adverb
meaning "of necessity" or "necesssarily." You will also find the phrase
reversed, as "needs must." In the sentence you quote from Carroll, it means
that just when Alice thinks she's "free of them," they seem to come
wriggling out of the sky as if they have to, as if it were inevitable that
they do so.
Authority: The New Fowler's Modern English Usage edited by R.W. Burchfield.
Clarendon Press: Oxford, England. 1996. Used with the permission of Oxford
University Press. (Under "needs")

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