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 (家长制的) system of the old family business now passing away.

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2. [分析]这是一个并列复合句，but连接两个并列分句，后一个分句中又含有从句。前一个分句中，the paid manager是名同短语，作主语；acting for the company作定语修饰前面的the paid manager;was in more direct relation with the men and their demands是系表结构，作谓语。后一个分句中，he是主语;had是谓语;that familiar personal knowledge of…是名词短语，作宾语，该短语中内含一个定语从句which ...away ,修饰限定 that familiar personal knowledge of the workmen;passing away是-ing形式短语，作定语修饰限定the old family business。

[译文]公司拿薪水的执行经理与T.人和他们的需要有更直接的关系。但是，与现在正在消失的世袭制的旧家族企业的老板相比，他甚至很少达到过去那种对工人的熟悉程度。