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Explain the text:
In times of peace, when business was bad, Hawkwood and his men would march into a city-state and, after burning down a few farms, would offer to go away if protection money was paid to them.
(2) Structure: “when” introduces an adverbial clause of time; the main clause is made of a compound statement connected by “and”; then in the second clause of the compound statement "if” introduces an adverbial clause of condition. “after burning down a few farms” is a “prep. + gerund” phrase used as adverbial of time.
“when”引导时间状语从句；主句是一个由“and”连接的并列句，并列句的第二个分句内又出现了由“If”引导的条件状语从句。“after burning down a few farms” 是一个“介词+ 动名词”组成的短语做时间状语。
Explain the text:
When he died at the age of eighty, the Florentines gave him a state funeral and had a picture painted which was dedicated to the memory of “the most valiant soldier and most notable leader, Signor Giovanni Haukodue”.
(1) Structure: “when” introduces an adverbial clause of time; the main clause is made of a compound statement connected by “and”; then in the second clause of the compound statement “which” introduces an attributive clause to modify “a picture”.
“when”引导时间状语从句；主句是一个由“and”连接的并列句，并列句的第二个分句内又出现了由“which”引导的定语从句修饰“a time”。
