Question

既然“note”为及物动词，为什么它在下面这句话中能直接接介词“with”？即使是介词短语作状语也不行吧？

I even went out at midnight with a torch and noted with satisfaction (and surprise) that the ants were still swarming around the sticky tape without being able to do anything about it.（半夜，我还拿着电筒来到花园里，满意地（同时惊奇地）发现那些蚂蚁还围着胶带团团转，无能为力。）——《新概念英语》

Answer 1

如果是及物动词加了with，说明with和后面跟的词一起做前面的状语，把它们分开看。不是所有动词后接介词都是和动词搭配，还有可能是介词短语做动词的状语。如果觉得我说的抽象可以把原句列出来，我再详细一点分析qwq

追问

您好，原句为 I even went out at midnight with a torch and noted with satisfaction (and surprise) that the ants were still swarming around the sticky tape without being able to do anything about it.（半夜，我还拿着电筒来到花园里，满意地（同时惊奇地）发现那些蚂蚁还围着胶带团团转，无能为力。）——《新概念英语》

Answer 2

that the ants were... 这是跟在note之后的宾语从句，with satisfaction = contently 是一个状语，和note没有关系