It is recounted of Thomas Carlyle that when he heard of the illness of his friend, Henry Taylor, he went off immediately to visit him, carrying with him in his pocket what remained of a bottle of medicine formerly prescribed for an indisposition of Mrs. Carlyle’s.
译文：据了解托马斯.卡莱尔有过这么一件事：他听说朋友亨利.泰勒病了，就立刻跑去看他，衣袋里装上了他老婆不舒服时吃剩下的一瓶药。
问题1. It is recounted of中的of 是什么用途，recounted在此处仿佛不是作形容词，不是像it is kind of you一样的这种理解思路
问题2.第二个黑体of又是什么用途？分析上说：of a bottle of medicine ... of Mrs. Carlyle’s作 what 的定语, 意即“他老婆不舒服时吃剩下的一瓶药”。但还是不理解。
问题3.这个是名词所属格，按大家中国人的理解为何不可以是：a friend of me 而是mine呢，不是the car of Dr. Lee而是the car of Dr. Lee’s呢？
问题1: 问题中It is recounted of中的of 是什么用途，of的容易见到含义是“是……”，如：
the back of the house 房屋的后部。
也就是说这个后部是这个房屋的，于是可以联想这个后部与这个房屋有关。因此，问题中的of 在本句中做与……有关讲。recounted有讲述，叙述的意思，那样它讲述，叙述的是什么呢？是that when he heard of the illness of his friend, Henry Taylor, he went off immediately to visit him, carrying with him in his pocket what remained of a bottle of medicine formerly prescribed for an indisposition of Mrs. Carlyle’s. 由that引导的主语从句就是讲述、叙述的内容，而这个内容与Thomas Carlyle有关，说白了就是讲的是发生在Thomas Carlyle身上一件事。整个句子意思大致是：
People told a story about Thomas Carlyle. once he heard one of his friends, Henry Taylor, was ill, he went off immediately to visit him. Mr Carlyle wife had been ill and taken the medicine. Now there was some left in a bottle of medicine. So it was strange he had them for Henry Taylor.
问题2:第二个黑体of又是什么用途,of 在本质还是当是讲。分析上说：of a bottle of medicine ... of Mrs. Carlyle’s作 what 的定语是对的。在这里的what含义是the thing which,而of a bottle of medicine ... of Mrs. Carlyle’s修饰the thing，然后再用which引导一个定语从句加以评论，修饰。如此，the thing被两个定语修饰，一个是of a bottle of medicine formerly prescribed for an indisposition of Mrs. Carlyle’s.，第二个被which remained修饰。
问题3: 这个是名词所属格是英文双重属格使用方法，这里的of含有全体与部分的关系。the back of the house 房屋的后部，后部是房屋，后部是部分，房屋是整体。譬如：
He is a friend of my father's friends. 我爸爸有不少朋友，他只不过我爸爸海量当中一个，部分与整体关系，英语习惯上把friends省掉，于是就有He is a friend of my father's。这方面可以阅读有关语法书。
