连词as容易被忽略的一种用法.

新概念英语第二册 Lesson 14 Do you speak English?

I had an amusing experience last year. After I had left a small village in the south of France, I drove on to the next town. On the way, a young man waved to me. I stopped and he asked me for a lift. As soon as he had got into the car, I said good morning to him in French and he replied in the same language. Apart from a few words, I do not know any French at all. Neither of us spoke during the journey. I had nearly reached the town, when the young man suddenly said, very slowly, "Do you speak English?' As I soon learnt, he was English himself!'

新概念英语第二册 Lesson 81 Escape

　When he had killed the guard, the prisoner of war quickly dragged him into the bushes. Working rapidly in the darkness, he soon changed into the dead man's clothes. Now, dressed in a blue uniform and with a rifle over his shoulder, the prisoner marched boldly up and down in front of the camp. He could hear shouting in the camp itself. Lights were blazing and men were running here and there: they had just discovered that a prisoner had escaped. At that moment, a large black car with four officers inside it, stopped at the camp gates. The officers got out and the prisoner stood to attention and saluted as they passed. When they had gone, the driver of the car came towards him. The man obviously wanted to talk. He was rather elderly with grey hair and clear blue eyes. The prisoner felt sorry for him, but there was nothing else he could do. As the man came near, the prisoner knocked him to the ground with a sharp blow. Then, jumping into the car, he drove off as quickly as he could.

Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
Chapter Twenty Six*

Almost every day when Jobs was healthy and in the office, he would have
lunch with Ive and then wander by the studio in the afternoon. As he entered,
he could survey the tables and see the products in the pipeline, sense how
they fit into Apple’s strategy, and inspect with his fingertips the evolving
design of each. Usually it was just the two of them alone, while the other
designers glanced up from their work but kept a respectful distance. If Jobs
had a specific issue, he might call over the head of mechanical design or
another of Ive’s deputies. If something excited him or sparked some thoughts
about corporate strategy, he might ask the chief operating officer Tim Cook
or the marketing head Phil Schiller to come over and join them. Ive described
the usual process: ...

Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson

“Simply handing over your iPod to a friend, your blind date, or the total
stranger sitting next to you on the plane opens you up like a book,” Steven
Levy wrote in The Perfect Thing. “All somebody needs to do is scroll
through your library on that click wheel, and, musically speaking, you’re
naked. It’s not just what you like—it’s who you are.” So one day, when we
were sitting in his living room listening to music, I asked Jobs to let me see
his. As we sat there, he flicked through his favorite songs

Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson

One sunny afternoon, when he wasn’t feeling well, Jobs sat in the garden
behind his house and reflected on death. He talked about his experiences in
India almost four decades earlier, his study of Buddhism, and his views on
reincarnation and spiritual transcendence. “I’m about fifty-fifty on believing
in God,” he said. “For most of my life, I’ve felt that there must be more to
our existence than meets the eye.”
He admitted that, as he faced death, he might be overestimating the odds
out of a desire to believe in an afterlife. “I like to think that something
survives after you die,” he said. “It’s strange to think that you accumulate all
this experience, and maybe a little wisdom, and it just goes away. So I really
want to believe that something survives, that maybe your consciousness
endures.”

Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson

Over lunch, Scott Forstall and Phil Schiller came in to display mockups of
some products that Apple had in the pipeline. Jobs peppered them with
questions and thoughts, especially about what capacities the fourthgeneration cellular networks might have and what features needed to be in
future phones. At one point Forstall showed off a voice recognition app. As
he feared, Jobs grabbed the phone in the middle of the demo and proceeded
to see if he could confuse it. “What’s the weather in Palo Alto?” he asked.
The app answered. After a few more questions, Jobs challenged it: “Are you
a man or a woman?” Amazingly, the app answered in its robotic voice, “They
did not assign me a gender.” For a moment the mood lightened.

上面几个例子是不太符合汉语思维的用法.

下面几个例子是比较符合汉语思维的用法,同时也列举出来,作为对比:

Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson

Another of Jobs’s maxims at the retreat was “It’s better to be a pirate than
to join the navy.” He wanted to instill a rebel spirit in his team, to have them
behave like swashbucklers who were proud of their work but willing to
commandeer from others. As Susan Kare put it, “He meant, ‘Let’s have a
renegade feeling to our group. We can move fast. We can get things done.’”

Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson

“Don’t be afraid,” Jobs replied. This stunned Weeks, who was goodhumored and confident but not used to Jobs’s reality distortion field. He tried
to explain that a false sense of confidence would not overcome engineering
challenges, but that was a premise that Jobs had repeatedly shown he didn’t
accept. He stared at Weeks unblinking. “Yes, you can do it,” he said. “Get
your mind around it. You can do it.”
As Weeks retold this story, he shook his head in astonishment. “We did it
in under six months,” he said. “We produced a glass that had never been
made.” Corning’s facility in Harrisburg, Kentucky, which had been making
LCD displays, was converted almost overnight to make gorilla glass fulltime. “We put our best scientists and engineers on it, and we just made it
work.” In his airy office, Weeks has just one framed memento on display. It’s
a message Jobs sent the day the iPhone came out: “We couldn’t have done it
without you.”

Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson

That is why Jobs was worried. “He was always obsessing about what could
mess us up,” board member Art Levinson recalled. The conclusion he had
come to: “The device that can eat our lunch is the cell phone.” As he
explained to the board, the digital camera market was being decimated now
that phones were equipped with cameras. The same could happen to the iPod,
if phone manufacturers started to build music players into them. “Everyone
carries a phone, so that could render the iPod unnecessary.”

Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson

Jobs told Sheryl Crow in May 2003 that he was downloading some
Eminem tracks, admitting, “He’s starting to grow on me.” James Vincent
subsequently took him to an Eminem concert. Even so, the rapper missed
making it onto Jobs’s iPod. As Jobs said to Vincent after the concert, “I don’t
know . . .” He later told me, “I respect Eminem as an artist, but I just don’t
want to listen to his music, and I can’t relate to his values the way I can to
Dylan’s.”