On the surface structure, the rhetorical question and general interrogative sentence are not of the strictly identical structures.
所以反问句和一般疑问句在表层结构形式上并不是“严格意义的同构形式”。
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N a question to which no answer is required: used esp for dramatic effect. An example is Who knows? (with the implication Nobody knows) 不必回答, 只为加强语气及效果的反问
'Don't you care what I do?' he asked, but it was a rhetorical question.
“我做什么,难道你不关心吗?”他问道,可那是个反问。
He grimaced slightly, obviously expecting no answer to his rhetorical question.
他稍稍做了个苦相,显然并不指望对他的修辞性设问有所回答。
That's not a rhetorical question.
这并不是一个讽刺的问题。
Archie, of course, can't stand this because for him it's perfectly clear that a rhetorical question is a rhetorical question.
阿齐当然无法忍受,因为对他来说,很明显修辞问句就是修辞问句。
The answer to the rhetorical question is that we can't tell the difference between the dancer and the dance.
这个问句的答案是,我们无法辨别舞者和舞蹈。
And ironically you sense, when you read this that even though Cain intends this as a rhetorical question "Am I my brother's keeper?"--in fact, he's right on the money.
当读到这一段的时候,你能感觉到其中的讽刺意味,尽管该隐的回答是一个设问句,“难道我是他的看守吗?“,事实上,指钱的话,他说的是对的。
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