Question

新概念3册35课语法问题

Reword or punishment are meted out quite independent of human interference.
这里mete是做动词，are meted out 在这里是被动，但是quite independent of human interference里的结构应该是be indenpendent of interfierence.那么，在这里的语法结构是怎样的，那个be是不是被省略了，be可以省略嘛？

Answer 1

Reword or punishment are meted out quite independent of human interference.
先把它改回主动就好理解了“
One metes out reword or punishment quite independent of human interference.

很明显，quite independent of human interference这个形容词短语用作reword or punishment 的后置定语，

整句翻译：给予完全独立于人性冲突的辩解或惩罚（缺乏上下文，只能直译）。