加拿大华人论坛 加拿大百科《白鲸Moby Dick》里的一句话
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作者Herman Melville写道：For in the mere act of penning my thoughts of this Leviathan, they weary me, and make me faint with their outreaching comprehensiveness of sweep, as if to include the whole circle of the sciences, and all the generations of whales, and men, and mastodons, past, present, and to come, with all the revolving panoramas of empire on earth, and throughout the whole universe, not excluding its suburbs. Such, and so magnifying, is the virtue of a large and liberal theme! We expand to its bulk. To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme. No great and enduring volume can ever be written on the flea, though many there be who have tried it.最后划线的这句话如何理解（尽管许多人曾尝试过，但至今还没有有关跳蚤的伟大不朽的的作品问世。），尤其“though many there be who have tried it ”中的结构谁能分析一下？请高手不吝赐教。
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回复: 《白鲸Moby Dick》里的一句话类似的：The administration of a strong sleeping draught to the condemned man every night from which one night he does not awake, seems a more civilized alternative to our present barbarous procedure, if capital punishment through the influence of backward minds be retained.看来if capital punishment through the influence of backward minds (should) be retained.中的should给省略了；though many there be who have tried it. 正常语序应该为：though many (should) there be who have tried it → though there (should) be many who have tried it. 这两者都是虚拟语气，不知道理解的对吗？
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