Question

求一句英文的翻译

It was a lovely country, with plenty of flowers and fruit trees and sunshine to cheer them, and had they not felt so sorry for the poor Scarecrow, they could have been very happy.
could have been是虚拟语气吗？？？

Answer 1

是虚拟语句

它是一个，阳光充沛，繁花似锦，山上长满了果树的迷人 国家，它并不需要对稻草人感到内疚，它们本应该充满快乐的。
could have been done是被动,本来可以被做而实际没被做的.

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前面的 had they not felt so sorry.... 是倒装吗？

追答

恩

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为啥要倒装啊？还请解释....

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倒装只是为了增强语句。你的问题真多，估计是小学生。

Answer 2

[A] Modal Verbs (情态动词)三类型:
[1]“Should have been” is saying your opinion.You think events should have happened otherwise than they really did, in a different way.

[2]“Would have been” is talking about the logic of events – if one thing didn’t happen, another thing would have happened.

[3]“Could have been” is talking about potential or possibility.关于潜力或可能性
[Could have: means that something was possible in the past, but it did not happen.]

[B]"...So, when they were rested, Dorothy picked up her basket and
they started along the grassy bank, to the road from which the
river had carried them. It was a lovely country, with plenty of
flowers and fruit trees and sunshine to cheer them, and had they not felt so sorry for the poor Scarecrow, they could have been very happy."

或“I could have been graduating next month but I had to drop out of school for a semester."

[C] 讲解: "could have been": you were on track to graduate but a circumstances beyond your control prevented that from actually happening.可能性

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had they not felt so sorry for the poor Scarecrow

这句的倒装是为什么？还请解释.....