长难句解析之非谓语动词

非谓语动词长难句分析

1.Impressed by the element’s combustibility, several 17th century chemists used it to

manufacture firelight devices, but the results were dangerously inflammable.

2.When the tube was broken, air rushed in, causing the phosphorus to self-combust.

3.Headlined “Without zoos you might as well tell these animals to get stuffed”, it

was bordered with illustrations of several endangered species and went on to extol the myth that without zoos like London Zoo these animals will almost certainly disappear forever.

4.This establishment, which for years was protected by the local council, was finally

closed down following a damning report by a veterinary inspector appointed under the terms of the Zoo Licensing Act 1981.

5.As it was always a collection of dubious repute, one is obliged to reflect upon the

standards that the Zoo Federation sets when granting membership.

6.Influenced by his ideas on town planning, every large British city built multi-story

estates in the 1960s.

7.Mass-produced,low-cost high rises seemed to offer a solution to the problem of

housing a growing inner-city population.

8.Moving north in the summer and south in the winter lets bees work a longer

blooming season, making more honey---and money---for the beepers.

9.Foul smelling chemicals are often used to irritate the bees and drive them down

into the hive’s bottom boxes, leaving the honey-filled super boxes more or less bee free.

10.By the time the flowers bloom, the new queens will be laying eggs, filling each

hive with young worker bees.