英語常用并列連詞，如：and/but/so/yet/for/nor/or/notonly/……butalso/either…or或neither…nor等連接兩個或幾個同等成分，這種結構稱為并列結構。連接的同等成分可以是動詞的賓語、介詞短語或名詞的定語等。 例1：In general, the tests work most effectively when the qualities to be measured can be most precisely defined and least effectively when what is to be measured or predicted can not be well defined. 例2：Astrophysicists working with groundbased detectors at the South Pole and balloon borne instruments are closing in on such structures, and may report their findings soon. 例3：It is not that the scales in the one case, and the balance in the other, differ in the principles of their construction or manner ofworking; but that the latter is a much finer apparatus and of course much more accurate in its measurement than the former. |
