This cold air current from the land is so forceful that it makes the nearby seas the stormiest in the world and renders unlivable those regions whose counterparts at the opposite end of the globe are inhabited.(1986)
and renders unlivable those regions 怎么解释呢?renders 是动词,unlivable形容词, those regions 名词,同时 renders unlivable those regions 和 makes the nearby seas the stormiest 构成并列。按照并列的原则,makes the nearby seas the stormiest是一个动宾宾补的结构,renders unlivable those regions 也应该是,但是unlivable怎么放在了名词前?宾补可以提前吗?
第一题就是宾语后置,whose 引导的从句要修饰那个宾语。要是没有那个从句,正常语序是renders those regions unlivable,但是加了从句以后,正常语序就变成renders those regions whose……unlivable。这么一来,读者就搞不清unlivable是什么成分,句子平衡被打破了。
为了句子平衡,有时候会有一些特殊的语序调整。当然这种在真题里比较罕见。