The thieves droped the torch and ran away as quickly as they could后半句可以写成they could as quickly asran away
问题描述：
The thieves droped the torch and ran away as quickly as they could
后半句可以写成
they could as quickly as
ran away
答
不能， as ... as sb could/can是固定表达
答
as quickly as they could是修饰ran away 的 作方式状语 应放在 动词后面
第二个as是连词 引导的是状语从句 they could
所以 后半句 不能改
要改 只能改为 The thieves droped the torch and ran away quickly