BBC news 2010-01-30 加文本

1.President Obama's senior economic adviser Lawrence Summers welcomed the news but said it was too soon to celebrate.

too……to太……而不能

【too...to 结构表示肯定含义的情况】
　　 我们知道too...to结构一般表示否定含义,意为"太...以致于不能"eg:He is too old to work.
　　但too...to在下列情况下却表示肯定含义:
　　（1）当too前或to前有否定词构成双重否定时.
　　eg:English is not too difficult to learn.　　英语并不太难学.
　　He is too wise not to see that.　　       他很聪明,不会不懂这一点.
 
　　（2）当too后是glad, pleased, happy, delighted, satisfied, ready, willing, kind, apt, good, true, easy, near, careful, well, early, delicious, eager, anxious等形容词或副词时.
　　eg:They are too anxious to leave.
　　他们急于离开.
　　He is too ready to help others.
　　他总是乐于助人.
　　与这些词连用时,too前还常加上only,all,but,just,simply等副词,意思不变,因为这些词加上too后与very同义.
　　eg:I'm only too glad to see you .
　　见到你非常高兴.
　　They are but too pleased to hear the news.
　　他们听到这个消息,非常高兴.
 
　　（3）与cannot连用时.
　　eg:You cannot be too careful(=You can never be careful enough) to do your homework.
　　你做作业越仔细越好(=无论怎样仔细也不过分).
 
　　（4）当不定式在句中作定语或真正的主语时.
　　eg:There are too many problems to be solved.
　　有很多问题有待解决.
　　It is too much to say that he is a fool.

2.It had prevented the media on privacy grounds from reporting allegations that he had a relationship with an unnamed woman or even that the injunction had been granted.

that he had a relationship是同位语从句，指代的是allegations。

3.Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four alleged co-conspirators are to be tried in a civilian rather than a military court.

rather than而是……表示两者之间选择，不是……而是，相当于not……but所表达的意思。

rather than还经常和其他短语组合起来构成新的用法：

would rather than

would rather...than 与rather...than的区别 a) would rather...than是"宁愿...而不"的意思,表示主观愿望,使用这一 结构要注意两个比较的部分对等。例如： *I would rather have the small one than the big one. 我们宁愿要小的，不要大的。 He would rather go today than tomorrow. 他宁愿今天去，而不愿明天去。 b) rather than不和would连用,不表示主观愿望,而表示一个事实,即"做 ...而不..."的意思。注意than后的动词要与主句中的与之相当的动词 在形式上一致。例如： I took the small one rather than the big one. 我拿了小的，而不是大的。 He ran all the way rather than walked. 他一路跑着，而不是走着。 如果rather than 用于句首，其后的动词必须改为动名词。例如： Rather than walking, he ran all the way.