"When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures, so I did ten times more work."

—Bernard Shaw

分析

When引导的状语从句：When I was young

主句（主语+谓语+that引导的宾语从句）：I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures.

Nine out of ten things = nine in ten（十之有八九）。

该句中，ten things后面省略了引导定语从句的连词"That / which"：(That / which) I did修饰前面的先行词ten things.

连词so引出的结果状语从句：so I did ten times more work.

单词提示

young：年轻的，年幼的

observe：注意到，观察

failure：失败

times：次数，时代

参考译文

年轻时我发现自己做事十之八九是不成功的，所以我付出了更多的努力。（英国剧作家萧伯纳）

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