2019考研英语长难句讲义

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2019 英语二必考长难句·串讲直播

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1）为保护报名直播课同学的听课权益，该电子讲义做了“隐蔽”与“模糊”处理，请同学们理解。2）未报名同学对本讲义的理解可能会有较大偏差，因为你看到的只是山，但挖出来的东西才是宝藏，唯有听完讲解的同学方可理解其内在的考点及用法，洞察其奥秘！

3）本讲义的内容，囊括了英语二近乎全部语法点、句法点和结构考点。

4）课后，要求所有听课同学在理解、吃透的基础上，尽可能背下这44 句话。当年俞敏洪靠熟练掌握300 个句子考入北大西语系。去年老蒋班上英语二上90 分者31 人（阅读满分9 人），其中22 人皆听了连续2 天的长难句直播并按照讲解分类，依次背下所有难句。今年考试，你懂的！4）本周末2 天，你的收获，不仅仅是掌握句法分析和语法精髓，全方位提高阅读、翻译、写作的功力，同时还会习得1000 左右的难词和重点词，对于基础薄弱的同学，尤为重要。

（注：为保护英语二真题试卷的完整性，本讲义取材避开了以往九年英二真题，因为英二真题的长难句只有到下半年考前研读，才能在考场上凭其惯性产生最大效力，上半年反有太多负作用！）

1. The Greeks assumed that the structure of language had some connection with the process of thought, which took root in Europe long before people realized how diverse languages could be.

2. We are obliged to them because some of these languages have since vanished, as the peoples who spoke them died out or became assimilated and lost their native languages.

3. The newly described languages were often so strikingly different from the well studied languages of Europe and Southeast Asia that some scholars even accused Boas and Sapir of fabricating their data.

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4. Being i nterested i n t he r elationship o f l anguage a nd t hought, W horf d eveloped t he i dea t hat t he s tructure o f language determines the structure of habitual thought in a society.

5. Whorf came to believe in a sort of linguistic determinism which, in its strongest form, states that language imprisons the mind, and that the grammatical patterns in a language can produce far-reaching consequences for the culture of a society.

6. Scientists j umped t o t he r escue w ith s ome d istinctly s haky e vidence t o t he e ffect t hat i nsects w ould e at u s u p i f birds failed to control t hem.

7. But we have at least drawn nearer the point of admitting that birds should continue as a matter of intrinsic right, regardless of the presence or absence of economic advantage to us.

8. Time was when biologists somewhat overworked the evidence that these creatures preserve the health of game by killing the physically weak, or that they prey only on “worthless”species.

9. In Europe, where forestry is ecologically more advanced, the noncommercial tree species are recognized as members of the native forest community, to be preserved as such, within reason.

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10. It t ends t o i gnore, a nd t hus e ventually t o e liminate, m any e lements i n t he l and c ommunity t hat l ack c ommercial value, but that are essential to its healthy functioning.

11. He believes that this very difficulty may have had the compensating advantage of forcing him to think long and intently a bout e very s entence, a nd t hus e nabling h im t o d etect e rrors i n r easoning and i n h is o wn observations.

12. He a sserts, also, that h is power to f ollow a long a nd purely abstract train of t hought w as very l imited, for w hich reason he felt certain that he never could have succeeded with mathematics.

13. On t he o ther hand, h e did n ot a ccept a s w ell f ounded t he c harge m ade b y s ome of h is c ritics that, w hile he w as a good observer, he had no power of reasoning.

14. He adds humbly that perhaps he was "superior to the common run of men in noticing things which easily escape attention, and in observing them carefully.

15. Darwin was convinced that the loss of these tastes was not only a loss of happiness, but might possibly be injurious to the intellect, and more probably to the moral character.

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16. Traditionally, legal learning has been viewed in such institutions as the special preserve of lawyers, rather than a necessary part of the intellectual equipment of an educated person.

17. On t he o ther, i t l inks t hese c oncepts t o e veryday r ealities i n a m anner w hich i s p arallel t o t he l inks j ournalists f orge on a daily basis as they cover and comment on the news.

18. But t he i dea that t he journalist m ust u nderstand t he l aw m ore profoundly t han an o rdinary citizen r ests o n a n understanding of the established conventions and special responsibilities of the news media.

19. In f act, i t i s difficult t o s ee h ow journalists w ho do n ot h ave a c lear grasp o f t he b asic f eatures o f the C anadian Constitution can do a competent job on political stories.

20. While c omment a nd r eaction f rom l awyers m ay e nhance s tories, i t i s p referable f or j ournalists t o r ely o n t heir own notions of significance and make their own judgments.

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21. I s hall d efine h im a s a n i ndividual who h as e lected as h is p rimary d uty a nd p leasure i n l ife t he a ctivity of t hinking i n Socratic（苏格拉底）way about moral problems.

22. His function is analogous to that of a judge, who must accept the obligation of revealing in as obvious a manner as possible the course of reasoning which led him to his decision.

23．I have excluded him because, while his accomplishments may contribute to the solution of moral problems, he has not been charged with the task of approaching any but the factual aspects of those problems.

24. But h is p rimary t ask i s n ot t o t hink a bout t he m oral c ode w hich g overns h is a ctivity, a ny m ore t han a b usinessman is expected to dedicate his energies to an exploration of rules of conduct in business.

25. They m ay t each v ery well, a nd m ore t han e arn t heir s alaries, b ut m ost o f t hem m ake l ittle o r n o i ndependent reflections on human problems which involve moral judgment.

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26. Television is one of the means by which these feelings are created and conveyed---and perhaps never before has it served so much to connect different peoples and nations as in the recent events in Europe.

27. In Europe, as elsewhere, multi-media groups have been increasingly successful: groups which bring together television, radio, newspapers, magazines and publishing houses that work in relation to one another.

28. This alone demonstrates that the television business is not an easy world to survive in, a fact underlined by statistics that show that out of eighty European television networks, no less than 50% took a loss in 1989.

29. Creating a “European identity”that respects the different cultures and traditions which go to make up the connecting fabric of the Old Continent is no easy task and demands a strategic choice---that of producing programs in Europe for Europe.

30. In dealing with a challenge on such a scale, it is no exaggeration to say, “United we stand, divided we fall.”

31. Furthermore, h umans h ave t he a bility t o m odify t he e nvironment i n w hich t hey l ive, t hus s ubjecting a ll o ther l ife forms to their own peculiar ideas and fancies.

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32. Social science is that branch of intellectual enquiry which seeks to study humans and their endeavors in the same reasoned, orderly, systematic, and dispassioned manner that natural scientists use for the study of natural phenomena.

33. The emphasis on data gathered first-hand, combined with a cross-cultural perspective brought to the analysis of cultures past and present, makes this study a unique and distinctly important social science.

34. Tylor defined culture as “... that complex whole which includes belief, art, morals, law, custom, and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society.”

35. Thus, the anthropological concept of“culture,”l ike the concept of“set”i n mathematics, is an abstract concept which makes possible immense amounts of concrete research and understanding.

36. One d ifficulty i s t hat a lmost a ll o f w hat i s c alled b ehavioral s cience c ontinues t o t race b ehavior t o s tates o f m ind, feelings, traits of character, human nature, and so on.

37. The behavioral sciences have been slow to change partly because the explanatory items often seem to be directly observed and partly because other kinds of explanations have been hard to find.

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38. The r ole of natural selection in evolution was f ormulated only a l ittle more than a hundred years ago, and the selective r ole o f t he e nvironment i n s haping a nd m aintaining t he b ehavior o f t he i ndividual i s o nly b eginning t o b e recognized and studied.

39. Until t hese i ssues a re r esolved, a t echnology o f b ehavior w ill c ontinue t o b e r ejected, a nd w ith i t p ossibly t he o nly way to solve our p roblems.

40. There w ill b e t elevision c hat s hows h osted b y r obots, a nd c ars w ith p ollution m onitors t hat w ill d isable t hem w hen they offend.

41. Children will play with dolls equipped with personality chips, computers with in-built personalities will be regarded as workmates rather than tools, relaxation will be in front of smell- television, and digital age will have arrived.

42. Pearson has pieced together the work of hundreds of researchers around the world to produce a unique millennium technology calendar that gives the latest dates when we can expect hundreds of key breakthroughs and discoveries to take place.

43. But that, Pearson points out, is only the start of man-machine integration: It will be the beginning of the long process of integration that will ultimately lead to a fully electronic human before the end of the next century.

44. And home appliances will also become so smart that controlling and operating them will result in the breakout of a new psychological disorder-kitchen rage.