先看三个例句:
1. As you are leaving last, please turn out the lights. (我和你都知道你要最后一个离开)
(摘自
http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/as)
2. As women were not supposed to be novelists, she took the name George Eliot. (大家都知道女的不应该是小说家)
(摘自
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/as?s=t)
3. It's empty, as it had been upside down. (你我都知道瓶头朝下)
(摘自
http://www.wordwebonline.com/search.pl?w=as)
上面三个句子都选自著名网络词典,每一句都说明在表示大家都知道的原因时才用as,用不用as并不是它处于什么位置决定的。而海外逸士正在变老,年纪大了并不是大家都知道的原因,所以用as 就不好,而应该用because。请看他下面的这个句子。
海外逸士《挑战书》第一行:As the time is nigh for my bones to turn to dust, I'd like to find a rival in English writing and translation.
我的改文:Because the time is nigh for my bones to turn into dust, I would like to find a rival in the field of English writing and translation.
这本是很容易理解的,但不知道为什么他就不能理解。这么简单易懂的都不能理解,他甚至觉得究竟应该用because还是用as是它们在句中所处的位置决定的,可见他多么愚钝。