If you say to your children "I'm sorry I got angry with you, but...“what follows that ”but“can render the apology ineffective:“I had a bad day“ or “your noise was giving me a headache” leaves the person who has been injured feeling that he should be apologizing for his bad behavior in expecting an apology. (06.1 Passage 2)
分析主干:what follows that ”but“can render the apology ineffective:...
if 引導條件狀語從句,say 后面引號里的直接引語作賓語。主句的主語是what 引導的從句,“緊跟在這個‘但是’之后的內容”;謂語部分是“動詞+賓語+補語”結構,ineffective 是賓語補足語。冒號后的內容是對前文的進一步解釋,兩個引號中的直接引語作主語,謂語部分也是“動詞(leaves)+賓語(the person who...)+賓語補足語(現在分詞feeling that...)”的結構。
譯文:如果你對你的孩子說,“很抱歉我生你的氣了,但是......”,這個“但是”后面的話可能會使你的道歉毫無效果。“我今天很倒霉”或者“你吵得我頭疼”諸如此類的話使受到傷害的那個人感覺在期待你向他道歉的同時,他應該為他所做的事情而向你道歉。