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1. …so different that a new listener in l967 might well feel that there had never been any sounds like that in the world before.
might well do表示一種委婉的口氣,有時寫成might just well do。that there had never been any sounds like that in the world before用的是與過去事實相反的虛擬語氣,說明電吉他的效果與以往大不相同。You may well get lost, so take a map.
She may well not want to (=It is likely that she will not want to) go on the trip - she hates travelling.
Compare might well at might.
2. Electronics did, in fact, make possible sounds that no instrument up to that time could produce.
possible在句中作賓補,并提到賓語sound及其定語從句之前。詳見第四課語法要點。
3. And in studio recordings, new techniques made possible effects that not even an electronic band could produce live.
本句結構與上句一樣,均為賓語與賓補倒置。live在定語從句中作狀語。
live a./adv. 現場直播的
e.g. This evening there will be a live broadcast of the debate.
今晚將現場直播這場辯論。
Ive got two tickets to see Genesis perform live.
我有兩張觀看創世紀樂隊現場演奏的票。
Electronic amplifiers also made possible a fantastic increase in volume, the music _becoming_ (become) as loud and penetrating as the human ear could stand, and thereby achieving a total effect, so that instead of an audience of passive listeners, there were now audiences of total participants, feeling the music in all of their senses and all of their bones.
n. 辯論,討論
vt. 爭論,思考