状语

No matter who/how/……,等.（1）.Although it rained heavily,they still worked in the fields.（2）.Clever as he is,he doesn't study well.

注：由as引导的让步状语从句，须将作表语的形容词或名词---名词前不用冠词---放在句首。

That she didn't do a good job, I don't think I am abler than her.

根据句子结构，前半部分是状语，意思是"我虽然说过她没干好工作，但我并不认为自己比她能干"。

If… then selectively aborting boys…would make sense.

这是一个带有条件状语从句的复合句，主语由现在分词短语构成。

The quarrel was not over acceptance of the Line; this 麦克马洪线 the Chinese, perhaps out of a continuing and sensible regard 考虑 for the inhospitable tendencies of the tribal people 原因状语, were disposed 有……倾向的, it appears, to concede.

可能是考虑到那些部落人的不友好倾向，中国人才一贯保持理智的态度，而且似乎是准备作出让步的。

For the purposes of paragraph 1 the initialling of a text constitutes a signature of the treaty when it is established that the negotiating states so agreedthe signature ad referendum of a treaty by a representative,if confirmed by his state,constitutes a full signature of the treaty.

此句中的目的状语简练短小，不妨就用"就"字把其放于句首：就适用第一项而言：倘经确定谈判国有此协议，约文之草签构成条约之签署；代表对条约作核准之签署，倘经其本国确认，即构成条约之正式签署。

One of the important uses of adjectives is to be put before a verb as an adverbial adjunct.

形容词的一个重要用途是在动词前作状语。

How do you think of the second adverbial clause?

你怎么理解第二个状语从句？

Before is adverbial clause of time,I think.

时间状语从句，我打错了。

B. In terms of adverbial clause, said the significance of identified, such as

在条件状语从句中表示确定的意义时，如

There was a terrible noise following the sudden bur st of light.

现在分词作状语时，可作时间，条件，结果，原因和伴随状语，表示正在进行的或主动的动作。

According to the clear water experiment, aeration performance of the new equipment is good with high total oxygen transfer coefficient and oxygen utilization ratio.

曝气设备的动力效率在叶轮转速为120rpm～150rpm时取得最大值，此时氧利用率和充氧能力也具有较高值。

The environmental stability of that world - including its crushing pressures and icy darkness - means that some of its most famous inhabitants have survived for eons as evolutionary throwbacks, their bodies undergoing little change.

稳定的海底环境─包括能把人压扁的压力和冰冷的黑暗─意谓海底某些最知名的栖居生物已以演化返祖的样态活了万世，形体几无变化。