托福听力小对话【89】wish表示虚拟语气

(A) The article was actually longer.

(B) His publishing career has just begun.

(C) The newspaper printed his other article.

(D) The article dealt with tires.

听力原文/参考答案/解说

-- Henry, your article in the campus news was excellent.

-- I only wish they had published the entire thing.

Q: What do we learn from Henry’s response?

参考答案　（A）

wish之后的宾语从句是虚拟语气，所表达的是与事实相违的愿望。I wish they had published the entire thing 的含义是他们未发表文章的全文。由此也可以推断原文比发表的要长。A与此意是一致的。