...nature, who has so much to answer for besides the perhaps unwieldy length of this sentence, has further complicated her task and added to our confusion by providing not only a perfect rag-bag of odds and ends within us — a piece of a policeman’s trousers lying cheek by jowl with Queen Alexandra’s wedding veil — but has contrived that the whole assortment shall be lightly stitched together by a single thread. % N% s) \0 ?) Q4 t0 z1 W
这句话中的not only...but (also) ...的用法感觉有点怪(后续接的结构没有统一)。& o. \; z- ~ R1 e- s7 l1 F
摘自伍尔夫的《Orlando》