Halliday carried a cigar-box around on a tripod, playing that it was a camera, and halted all passers and
aimed the thing and said Ready! now look pleasant, please, but not even this capital joke could surprise the dreary faces into any
softening.
有2点疑问：
1）playing that it was a camera - 拿着这个当照相机玩。
怎么样理解play that + 一个句子？怎么样剖析这里结构呢？ 看不明白。
2）not even this capital joke could surprise the dreary faces into any softening.
显然，原来的语序是 even this capital joke could NOT surprise the dreary faces into any softening.
请问老师，如此的句子中，not可以从could后面拿出直接放到even前吗？放到even前，需要倒装吗？
是不是even...not...如此的句型都可以将not放在句首而无需倒装？
另外even...not...和not...even句型表达语气上，理解上有什么不同？not...even愈加强调吗？
playing that it was a camera
playing=pretending，后接宾语从句，构成目前分词短语作carried a cigar box的随着状语。拿着一个雪茄盒，假装那是照相机，拦住路人给人照相。
not even this capital joke 否定意义的短语作主语，本来就在句第一置，并没前置，所以不倒装。假如 No one likes you. 虽然no one是不是定意义，但它作主语，本来就在这个地方，没发生前置。否定意义的短语只有在前置的状况下才引起部分倒装。而不是只须句首是不是定意义就需要倒装。倒装是前置导致的。没前置，就没倒装！！！
not even..., 比even...not更为突出强调主语。
