[求助]强调结构问题之一

chinabens

白勇语法全解中的

many+名词短语，if not most，verb

例句：Although Ms. Bakara had previously emphasized that she could not speak for other Black people ,she ventured to do so on this one occasion because she firmly believed that many minority people ,if not most,would agree with her.

I want to know what is the meaning of the "many+名词短语，if not most，verb" in the sentence,and which section is the emphasized structure?

Thanks!

steveyangxt

相当于一个让步成分，表示数量之多。

moderation

我觉得这里的many表示有一定的数量，但是数量是绝对的，most代表的比例是

相对的。例如：minority一共有10million,其中有5m同意B的观点，所以是

many,但是不是most.如果minority只有1 thousand,其中有800同意B的观点，那

么就是most,但是不是many!这是比例与数量的问题！