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In its disparity of needs and personalities and ages sharing a common space, its tolerance and resilience, the modern library has the potential to feel, as it did on that wintry morning of the quiz, like nothing so much as a big and rackety family.摘自英國(guó)《衛(wèi)報(bào)》（The Guardian）：https://www./news/article/2024/jun/25/how-britains-libraries-provide-more-than-books#:~:text=In%20its%20disparity%20of%20needs,a%20big%20and%20rackety%20family. 
針對(duì)這個(gè)句子，有讀者通過(guò)我的知識(shí)星球提出了下面問(wèn)題：ALICE 提問(wèn)：
老師好，針對(duì)這個(gè)句子:
In its disparity of needs and personalities and ages sharing a common space, its tolerance and resilience, the modern library has the potential to feel, as it did on that wintry morning of the quiz, like nothing so much as a big and rackety family.
like nothing so much as a big and rackety這里面是不是有nothing的否定轉(zhuǎn)移翻譯？到底是像大家庭還是不像呢？as it did on that wintry morning of the quiz.這里面did是had the potential on的指代嗎？這和過(guò)去考試清冷早晨一樣？參考答案是圖片？我不知道像還是不像呢？
我們看到，上面提問(wèn)的重點(diǎn)在于“像不像”：這里面是不是有nothing的否定轉(zhuǎn)移翻譯？到底是像大家庭還是不像呢？
對(duì)應(yīng)的是句中l(wèi)ike nothing so much as這部分：
In its disparity of needs and personalities and ages sharing a common space, its tolerance and resilience, the modern library has the potential to feel, as it did on that wintry morning of the quiz, like nothing so much as a big and rackety family.比較的對(duì)象是劃線的兩部分：即現(xiàn)代的圖書館像不像喧鬧的大家庭？
上句有很多看點(diǎn)，不過(guò)，我們今天只看其中的比較結(jié)構(gòu)，因此，我把上句簡(jiǎn)化為：
In its disparity of needs and personalities and ages sharing a common space, its tolerance and resilience, the modern library has the potential to feel, as it did on that wintry morning of the quiz, like nothing so much as a big and rackety family.=The modern library has the potential to feel like nothing so much as a big and rackety family.下面我就詳細(xì)說(shuō)說(shuō)這個(gè)句子構(gòu)造的來(lái)龍去脈。
首先，這里有強(qiáng)調(diào)意味的搭配nothing so much as：
a. X looks like nothing so much as Y.這里是比較X和Y，而強(qiáng)調(diào)結(jié)構(gòu)nothing so much as自帶最高級(jí)的意味，因此，a句基本含義就是【X像什么都不如像Y】，也就是【X最像Y】。看到這里，大家可能很納悶：為什么你能讀出這里有最高級(jí)的意味？因?yàn)槲抑肋@個(gè)比較句的構(gòu)造邏輯。下面我推導(dǎo)給大家看：這里關(guān)鍵是要看出：a句在as后邊省去了整個(gè)X looks like部分，因此，還原后相當(dāng)于說(shuō)：b. X looks like nothing so much as [X looks like] Y.可見(jiàn)，雖說(shuō)這里比較的是X和Y，但真正的比較對(duì)象是nothing和Y。如果對(duì)nothing感覺(jué)不習(xí)慣，那么我把它拆分一下：
nothing = not ... anything elsec. X does not look like anything else so much as [X looks like] Y.
此時(shí)c句就好理解了，字面意思就是【X像什么都不如它像Y】，也就是X最像Y。其他同義替換句式表達(dá)可以有：d. Nothing looks more like X than Y does.（什么也不如Y像X。）e. The thing that X looks most like is Y.（X看起來(lái)最像的東西就是Y。）A. The modern library has the potential to feel like nothing so much as a big and rackety family.這里用的是feel like（而不是look like），用上面b句式來(lái)改寫就是：B. The modern library has the potential to feel like nothing so much as [it feels like] a big and rackety family.基本意思就是“現(xiàn)代圖書館給人感覺(jué)完全就像是一個(gè)喧鬧的大家庭”。
剩下其他c、d、e句式，大家不妨自己仿寫一下，我就不再贅述了。我們今天講了一個(gè)非常有用且好用的比較句式：
a. X looks like nothing so much as Y.a1. X feels like nothing so much as Y.a2. X resembles nothing so much as Y.
Battle library on Oxford Road in Reading. Photograph: Martin Godwin/The Guardian
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