先行词可以是一个完整的主句。请看例句：

My girlfriend likes dancing with other guys, which really drives me crazy.

妙语点睛 先行词是my girlfriend likes dancing with other guys这一完整的句子。

精品译文 我女友喜欢和别的小伙子跳舞，这让我十分恼火。

思维总结

综上所述，“先行词”并不一定只是一个单词，换句话说，定语从句所修饰的对象不一定就是一个单词，而可以是一个短语、分句或完整的句子，这即是先行词的结构特点。掌握了先行词的这一结构特点，有助于我们快速、准确地判断定语从句所修饰的对象。请读者做下面的练习，检验自己对先行词结构特点的掌握情况，看看能不能快速且正确地找到先行词。

思维训练2.1 Key

分析下列句子中定语从句的先行词，并将各句译成汉语。

1. Perhaps it is human to appreciate little that which we have and to long for that which we have not.

2. He helped popularize the idea that some diseases not previously thought to have a bacterial cause were actually infections, which aroused much controversy when it was first suggested.

3. He asserted also that his power to follow a long and purely abstract train of thought was very limited, for which reason he felt certain that he never could have succeeded with mathematics. mlFTnzOserkut0ifUmC1Q0WvEx2dWqNsEKO+KsiYR9ECKzZqTvLmquKAucZWbMH4