If you say to your children "I'm sorry I got angry with you, but...“what follows that ”but“can render the apology ineffective:“I had a bad day“ or “your noise was giving me a headache” leaves the person who has been injured feeling that he should be apologizing for his bad behavior in expecting an apology. (06.1 Passage 2)
分析主干:what follows that ”but“can render the apology ineffective:...
if 引导条件状语从句,say 后面引号里的直接引语作宾语。主句的主语是what 引导的从句,“紧跟在这个‘但是’之后的内容”;谓语部分是“动词+宾语+补语”结构,ineffective 是宾语补足语。冒号后的内容是对前文的进一步解释,两个引号中的直接引语作主语,谓语部分也是“动词(leaves)+宾语(the person who...)+宾语补足语(现在分词feeling that...)”的结构。
译文:如果你对你的孩子说,“很抱歉我生你的气了,但是......”,这个“但是”后面的话可能会使你的道歉毫无效果。“我今天很倒霉”或者“你吵得我头疼”诸如此类的话使受到伤害的那个人感觉在期待你向他道歉的同时,他应该为他所做的事情而向你道歉。