The robot who rescues Spooner’s life in I, Robot follows Asimov’s zeroth law: robots cannot harm humanity (as opposed to individual humans) or allow humanity to come to harm—an expansion of the first law that allows robots to determine what’s in the greater good.
【句子拆分】
主語 The robot
【單詞解析】
單詞
expansion
音標
?k'spæn??n
中文詞意
n. 膨脹;闡述;擴張物
【語法分析】
這句話的主語是"The robot","who"引導定語從句修飾主語,謂語動詞時"follows",而賓語則是"Asimov’s zeroth law"。至于"robots cannot harm humanity (as opposed to individual humans) or allow humanity to come to harm"這些都是說明前面的"law"的同位語成份,同時也是個句子。至于破折號后面的部分也是同位語,也是在通過另一種角度說明前面的這個"law"到底是個什么東西。