Question

2. The paid manager acting for the company was in more direct relation with the men and their demands,but even he had seldom that familiar personal knowledge of the workmen which the employer had often had under the more patriarchal (家長制的) system of the old family business now passing away.

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2. [分析]這是一個并列復合句，but連接兩個并列分句，后一個分句中又含有從句。前一個分句中，the paid manager是名同短語，作主語；acting for the company作定語修飾前面的the paid manager;was in more direct relation with the men and their demands是系表結構，作謂語。后一個分句中，he是主語;had是謂語;that familiar personal knowledge of…是名詞短語，作賓語，該短語中內含一個定語從句which ...away ,修飾限定 that familiar personal knowledge of the workmen;passing away是-ing形式短語，作定語修飾限定the old family business。

[譯文]公司拿薪水的執行經理與T.人和他們的需要有更直接的關系。但是，與現在正在消失的世襲制的舊家族企業的老板相比，他甚至很少達到過去那種對工人的熟悉程度。