chief among...was...是什么意思

问题描述

When its energetic director, Sabyasachi Mukherjee, asked his staff what it should be doing, chief among the ideas put forward was to reach out far more, not just to Mumbai city-dwellers who would normally never think of visiting a museum but to other museums around the world.

请问：句中的chief among...was...是什么意思？

老师答疑

黄老师：

chief 这里是省略说法，完整的应该是 the chief idea among the ideas put forward，其中put forward 是过去分词短语充当定语，修饰 the ideas。其意思是“所提观点中的主要观点”。从语法结构上来说，chief mong the ideas put forward 充当主句主语，was是系动词，与充当表语的不定式 to reach out 一起构成主句的谓语部分。