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What we’ve found after every recession in modern times is that we’ve actually up-ticked our spending afterward, but we’re finding that what we thought would bring us happiness, all this extra increase in consumption, just doesn’t deliver the goods.

 

 

主語 What we’ve found

 

謂語 is

 

賓語 that we’ve actually up-ticked our spending afterward

 

 

單詞

 

consumption

 

音標

 

k?n's?mp??n

 

中文詞意

 

n. 消費；消耗；肺癆

 

 

這句話是一個并列句，"but"之前的第一個句子"What we’ve found after every recession in modern times is that we’ve actually up-ticked our spending afterward"，解構為主系表句型，其主語就是主語從句"What we’ve found"，"what"在從句中作賓語，從句的主語"we"，謂語"have found"，"after every recession"和"in modern times"都是時間狀語；主干的系詞"is"；表語為表語從句"that we’ve actually up-ticked our spending afterward"，連接詞"that"，表語從句的主語"we"，謂語"have up-ticked"，這里面"up-tick"本為名詞詞性，在這被當成了動詞使用，"our spending"為賓語，"afterward"也是時間狀語。 "but"后面的第二部分句子，"we’re finding that what we thought would bring us happiness, all this extra increase in consumption, just doesn’t deliver the goods"，主語"we"，謂語是正在進行時"are finding"，賓語是賓語從句，賓語從句的主語是"what we thought would bring us happiness"，這部分并不是個句子，可以把它看作名詞性關系分句用法，也就是一個部分起兩個作用，"what"轉化成"the thing"和"would bring us happiness"連接在一起變成"the thing would bring us happiness"，之后將"the thing would bring us happiness"這個整體放在"we thought"后面，---"we thought (that) the thing would bring us happiness"，"would bring us happiness"即和"what"(the thing)組成一個句子邏輯，其整體又在"we thought"后面作賓語；"are finding that"后面的賓語從句的真正的謂語是"doesn’t deliver"，賓語"the goods"，但一般是把"deliver the goods"看成一個主題，也就是固定搭配。

 

 

我們發現，現代社會每次出現經濟衰退后，我們實際加大了在其后的支出。但我們發覺，我們以為會給自己帶來幸福感的所有這些額外增加的消費卻沒有讓人如愿以償。

 

 

所謂的名詞性關系分句大家先有個印象，與此對應的還有嵌入式關系分句，也是類似的邏輯。