ManhattanSC过去完成时特殊用法求解.例句：ThebandU2WASjustoneofmanynewgroupsontherockmusicsceneintheearly1980's,butlessthantenyearslater,U2HADfullyECLIPSEDitsearlyrivalsinthepantheonofpopularmusic.书

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Manhattan SC 过去完成时特殊用法求解.
例句：The band U2 WAS just one of many new groups on the rock music scene in the early 1980's,but less than ten years later,U2 HAD fully ECLIPSED its early rivals in the pantheon of popular music.
书上说：
Using this construction,you can even make a tricky sentence in which the first clause expresses an early action in Simple Past.Then,a second clause expresses a later action in Past Perfect to indicate continued effect (by a still later past time).
有几个疑问请教：
2、为什么第二个句子中U2 HAD fully ECLIPSED 要用过去完成时?
3、less than ten years later发生在1980‘s之前还是之后?
4、麻烦此种用法的更多示例.

Answer 1

1.书上的解释是 :用这种造句法,你还更可以用简单过去式表达第一节,然後以过去完成式表达随後动作的继续影响 (更稍後的过去时)
2.原因是所述乃是1980年後不到10年间的事情,即是1990年前的动作,所以要用过去完成时.
3.这里说U2是1980年代的新乐队,在不到10年後(less than ten years later),当然是说1980年之後了.
4.例:He started his business in the 1960's,but less than 20 years later,he had become an millionaire.
I went fishing in the river last week,but less then an hour later,I had fed up with it and came home.
The new school was built in the 1990's,but only after less than 5 years later,it had collapsed to the ground due to poor construction.
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