He tried to remember in what year he had first heard mention of Big Brother.

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He tried to remember in what year he had first heard mention of Big Brother.
句中what引导的是什么从句?what在从句中做什么成分?

what 引导的是宾语从句,做remember的宾语,what 在从句中做year的定语.what year做in的宾语.
这个从句有个特殊的地方是把从句中的介词in提到从句的句首.原本的顺序是he had first heard mention of big brother in what year.为什么in后面引导的不是时间状语从句in的介词短语是从句中的时间状语,从句虽然是in开关,但引导词是what,跟remember发生关系,是remember的内容,而不是在什么时候记起来。你翻译了就知道,他努力的要想起在哪一年做了什么事,而不可能翻译成在哪一年想起什么。