Many of these individuals were faithful for years, sometimes decades. They seem to be well
balanced, mature, caring, anddeeplyinvestedin their relationship. Yet one day, they crossed a line they never imagined they would cross. For a glimmer of what?
问题:
invest 在文中是不是为及物动词?省略了什么宾语?
刘老师的解答是正确的。
本句中,deeply invested in与前面的well balanced, mature, caring并列,都是 不定式to be的表语。所以invested是及物动词invest的过去分词演变而来的形容词,虽然词典没网站收录这个形容词。
《韦氏学生词典》invest作及物动词词条下的解释和例句如下:
[+ object]:to give your time or effort in order to do something or make something better—usually +in
A lot of effort wasinvested inthe project.
We need toinvestmore timeineducating our children.
She isdeeply invested inthis project [=she has given a lot of time and effort to this project and cares about it very much] and wants it to succeed.
红色字体的例句中谓语就是系表结构,不是被动语态,和你提问的句子中的invested的使用方法是一致的。