His first experiment, nearly 30 years age, involved memory: training a person to hear and then repeat a random series of numbers.

【参考译文:差不多30年前,他的第一个实验与记忆力直接有关,即练习一个人听一系列随机的数字,然后再重复这一系列随机的数字。】

我的问题是:

这个句子中的动词train为何要写成目前分词的形式?

to hear改成hearing可以吗?

repeat为何不写成repeating或to repeat?

谢谢老师!


刘老师好像又忽视了分词状语时,其逻辑主语应该是句子的主语。本句中主语experiment=training sb to do sth.

词典的讲解和例句:train : toteachsomeone to do aparticular joboractivity.

train someone to do something:

They weretraininghim to use thenewsecuritysystem.

因此,动词train sb to do sth的主语应该是人,而不是experiment。

冒号有哪些用途之一为引出同位语。比如

She suggested that the most improtant factor had been overlooked: the cosplayt.

the cosplayt为the most important factor的同位语。

这个例句和本句类似。因此本句中的training...不是目前分词短语作状语,而是动名词短语作主语experiment的同位语。