Of the millions who saw the Haley's comet in 1986,how many people will live long enough to see it in twenty-first century谁能帮忙分析一下这个句子的成分组成,语法结构,

Question

Of the millions who saw the Haley's comet in 1986,how many people will live long enough to see it in twenty-first century
谁能帮忙分析一下这个句子的成分组成,语法结构,

Answer 1

先译吧：“在成千上万个在1986年看到哈雷彗星的人之中,有多少人将会足够长命活到二十一世纪再看到它呢?”
who引导的定语从句修饰the millions,而从of到1986这一块和how many作定语一起修饰主语people；will live是谓语；long enough和to see到句末这一块作状语.句子本来应该是“How many people of the millions who…1986 will…century.”的,因为修饰主语的成分太长会影响句子的连贯,故放于句首.在英语表达中,如果起修饰作用的成分太长,为了不影响句子主干的连贯和结构紧密性,这个起修饰作用的成分常常不放在它原本应该所处的位置,例如你问的这个句子,类似的还有分隔式定语从句.如：He likes to do homework with Jim after school every day,whose performance is the best in their class.他喜欢每天放学后跟吉姆一起做作业,（因为）吉姆是他们班上成绩最好的.