这里是独立主格结构。
Time is one of the two elements that Americans save carefully,the other being labor(and the other is labor).
独立主格结构本身不是句子,在句子中作状语,表示时间、原因、条件、伴随等。常见的独立主格结构有如下几种:
1. 名词/主格代词+现在分词。名词/主格代词与现在分词之间主谓关系。如:
Time permitting (= If time permits), we will go for an outing tomorrow. 如果时间允许的话,我们明天去郊游。
2. 名词/主格代词+过去分词。名词/主格代词与过去分词之间的动宾关系。如:
The problems solved (= As the problems were solved), the quality has been improved. 随着问题的解决,质量已经提高了。
3. 名词/主格代词+不定式。名词/主格代词与不定式之间是主谓关系,且强调的是一次具体性的动作。如:
He is going to make a model plane, some old parts to help. 借助于一些旧零件,他要做一个飞机模型。
4. 名词/主格代词+形容词。如:
An air accident happened to the plane, nobody alive. 那架飞机遭遇了空难,无一人生还。
5. 名词/主格代词+副词。如:
The meeting over, they all went home. 会议一结束,他们就都回家了。
6. 名词/主格代词+介词短语。如:
The boy goes to the classroom, book in hand. 那男孩手里拿着书去教室。
如果表达的清楚一点便是:Time is one of the two elements that Americans save carefully,and the other is labor.
为了表达简练,句子用非谓语的形式表达了后一句。就成了the other being labor。
例如:There was nobody in the large room, so i felt scared.
There being nobody in the large room , i felt scared.
语法结构就是one.......the other
"一个是......另一个是............”
其中之一是"时间",另一个是"劳动力"
全句译为
时间是美国非常节省的两个要素之一,另一个就是劳动力
前面的that引导定语从句,即Americans save carefully修饰the two elements,由于一个句子不能有两个谓语动词,故后面不能用is而用being,作同位语。
Time is one of the two elements . Americans save the two elements carefully,the other being labor.
the other being labor. 本应该是: the other one of the two elements that Americans save carefully is labor. ,在这里,把这句当成了状语,所以要将系动词IS去动词化,就变成了BEING