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历年考研《英语》真题长难句解析

历年考研《英语》真题长难句解析

1. After six months of arguing and final 16 hours of hot parlia mentary debates, Australia's Northern Territory became the first legal authority in the world to allow doctors to take the lives of incurably ill patients who wish to die.【译文】经过6个月争论和最后16个小时的国会激烈辩论,澳大利亚北部地区(澳北州政府)成为世界上第一个允许医生根据绝症病人个人意愿来结束其生命的合法当局。

【析句】句子的主体结构是Australia's Northern Territory becam e the first legal authority。

句首成分After six months of arguing an d final 16 hours of hot parliamentary debates是作状语的介词词组,动词不定式to allow doctors to take the lives of incurably ill patien ts who wish to die相当于定语从句which allows doctors to take th e lives of incurably ill patients who wish to die,修饰the first lega l authority。

【讲词】to take the life of sb和to take sb’s life意思是“结束某人的生命”。

A car bombing took the life of a 61-year-old man.(汽车炸弹夺去了一位61岁老头的生命。

考研英语长难句66句(含详细解析)

考研英语长难句66句(含详细解析)

1.This success, coupled with later research showing that memory itself is not genetically determined, led Ericsson to conclude that the act of memorizing is more of a cognitive exercise than an intuitive one.词汇突破:cognitive 认知的(后天习得的)Intuitive 先天的和以上这组单词概念相同的表达还有:Nature先天;nurture后天;born ;先天的;made 后天的;innate天生的;Acquired后天习得;Determine 决定Coupled with 相当于and,想类似的表达还有along with ; combined with等。

主干识别:句子的主语是This success和later research ;谓语是led; 宾语是Ericsson; 不定式短语to conclude 做状语;主干结构是:this success and later research led Ericsson to conclude that …其他成分:在research后面接一个现在分词短语做后置定语,在这个现在分词短语中that引导的从句做showing 的宾语;在不定式短语中that引导的从句做conclude的宾语;more…than结构翻译为与其说,不如说。

微观解析:由于主语中的第二个并列成分比较长,且是用两个逗号隔开的,在阅读的时候可以跳读;把This success和动词led先连起来然后再来解析其他成分。

译文赏析:这种成功和后来表明记忆本身并不是先天决定的研究使爱立信总结道,记忆的行为与其说是一种先天的行为不如说是一种习得的行为。

2.It is not obvious how the capacity to visualize objects and to figure out numerical patterns suits one to answer questions that have eluded some of the best poets and philosophers.词汇突破:visualize 想象Figure out 发现和找出Suits 使…适合主干识别:句子主语是由how引导的一个主语从句,it是句子的形式主语;句子主干为: How …is not obvious.在主语从句中主语是capacity,谓语是suits 宾语是one ;其他成分:状语为to answer…主语后加上两个动词不定式做后置定语;动词不定式中的宾语questions后面接一个that引导的定语从句。

历年考研《英语》真题长难句解析.doc

历年考研《英语》真题长难句解析.doc

L The existence of the giant clouds was virtually required for the Big Bang, first put forward in the 1920s, to maintain its reign as the dominant explanation of the cos mos.【译文】巨大的宇宙云的存在,实际上是使二十年代首创的大爆炸论得以保持其宇宙起源论的主导地位所不可缺少的。

【析句】本句的主干为The existence of the giant clouds was virtually required for th e Big Bang,过去分词短语first put forward in the 1920s在句屮作后置定语,修饰前面的the Big Bango 【讲词】Big Bang是天文学的一个名词,应该译成“大爆炸”或“大爆炸理论”。

put for ward 意为“提出”。

The Council has put forward valuable concrete proposals on energy cons ervation.(委员会提出了宝贵而具体的节能意见。

)China has put forward three historical site s for UNESCO heritage list.(中国提交三个历史名胜申请成为联合国教科文组织的世界遗产。

)UNESCO 的全称是the United Nations Educational,Scientific and Cultural Organizationo2. Astrophysicists working with ground based detectors at the South Pole and ba lloon borne instruments are closing in on such structures,and may report their findin gs soon.【译文】天体物理学家使用南极陆基探测器及球载仪器,止越来越近地观测这些云系,也许不久会报告他们的观测结果。

历年考研真题长难句解析

历年考研真题长难句解析

历年考研真题长难句解析历年考研真题长难句解析1.Proper, scientific study of the impacts of dams and of the cost andbenefits of controlling water can help to resolve these conflicts.【译文】对于水坝的影响作用、水坝控制水流的本钱和收益,应该进展恰当而科学的研究,这样才有助于解决这些矛盾。

【析句】句子的主干是study... can help to resolve conflicts。

主语的修饰成分较长,注意study包括两个方面的内容,一是the impacts of dams,一是the cost and benefits of controlling water。

【讲词】impact意为“碰撞,撞击;影响”,作名词时较多表示“影响”。

Thisbooks illustrates the impact of modern science upon society as a whole.〔这本书阐述现代科学对整个社会的影响。

〕The impact on the rate of inflation will be felt in 2023.〔人们将在2023年感受到通货膨胀的影响。

〕resolve作动词时意为“解决;决定;溶解;变成”,作名词时表示“决心”。

Thecircumstances resolved him to take the case to the Supreme Court.〔在这种情况下,他决定把官司打到最高法院〕。

The discussion resolved itself into an argument.〔讨论到后来变成了争论。

〕He made a resolve to launch a reform in the firm.〔他决定在公司推进改革。

考研英语历年真题阅读长难句100句精析

考研英语历年真题阅读长难句100句精析

考研英语历年真题阅读长难句100句精析1、While warnings are often appropriate and necessary —the dangers of drug interactions,for example—and many are required by state or federal regulations,it isn't clear that they actually protect the manufacturers and sellers from liability if a customer is injured、【译文】尽管警告常常就是适当而且必须得——比如对于药物相互作用得危险提出警告——许多警告还就是按州或联邦政府规定要求给出得,然而(我们) 并不清楚,如果顾客受到伤害时,这些警告就是不就是确实可以使得生产者与销售者豁免责任。

【分析】在这个主从复合句中,it isn't clear that they actually protect the manufacturers and sellers from liability if a customer is injured就是主句。

主句用了一个形式主语it,真正得主语就是that引导得从句,而that从句之后就是一个if引导得条件从句。

从句由两个部分组成,中间用and连接。

破折号之间得部分就是举例说明warnings得内容。

注意:many are required by state or federal regulations中得many就是指many warnings。

2、Additional social stresses may also occur because of the population explosion or problems arising from mass migration movements—themselves made relatively easy nowadays by modern means of transport 、【译文】由于人口猛增或大量人口流动(现代交通工具使大量人口流动变得相对容易) 所引起得各种问题也会对社会造成新得压力。

历年考研《英语》真题长难句解析

历年考研《英语》真题长难句解析

攻克考研英语长难句——200个经典句1.The “shareholders” as such had no knowledge of the lives, thoughts or needs of the workmen employed by the company in which he held shares, and his influence on the relations of capital and labour was not good.结构分析:本句是and 连接的两个并列句;第一个句子的主要结构是The “shareholders” … had no knowledge …;过去分词短语employed by the company…作定语,修饰前面的workmen;定语从句in which he held shares修饰前面的the company;第二个句子的主要结构是his influence…was not good。

参考译文:这种股东不了解自己持股公司里工人们的生活、思想和需求。

他们对劳资双方的关系都不会产生积极的影响。

2.The paid manager acting for the company was in more direct relation with the men and their demands, but even he had seldom that familiar personal knowledge of the workmen which the employer had often had under the more patriarchal system of the old family business now passing away.结构分析:but连接两个句子,表转折关系;第一个句子的主要结构是The paid manager … was in more direct relation with…;现在分词短语acting for the company作定语,修饰The paid manager;第二个句子的主要结构是he had seldom that familiar personalknowledge of the workmen…;定语从句which the employer hadoften had …a way修饰前面的familiar personal knowledge;介词短语under the more patriarchal system of the old familybusiness作状语,修饰谓语动词had often had;现在分词短语passing away作定语,修饰前面的old family business。

考研长难句分析100例解析

考研长难句分析100例解析

长难句分析100例(一)Such behavior is regarded as “all too human,”with the underlying(潜在的、内在的)assumption that sloth (懒惰)is one of the sevens inherent sins of human being(人类)(二)(三)Everyone is very peaceful, polite and friendly until, waiting in a line for lunch, the new arrival is suddenly pushed aside by a man in a white coat, who rushes to the head of the line, grabs his food and stomps over to a table by(四)(五)Often it’s the delivery which causes the audience to smile, so speak slowly and remember that a raised eyebrow oran unbelieving look may help to show that you are making a light-hearted remark.(六)(七)If robots are to reach the next stage of laborsaving utility, they will have to operate with less human supervision and be able to make at least a few decisions for themselves -- goals that pose a real challenge.(八)(九) Although it ruled that there is no constitutional right to physician-assisted suicide, the Court in effect supported the medical principle of “double effect ” ,a centuries-old moral principle holding that an action having two effects -- a good one (that is intended and a harmful ) one ( that is foreseen )-- is permissible if the actor intends only the good effect.(十)Nancy Dubler, director of Montefiore Medical Center, contends that the principle will shield doctors who “until now have very, very strongly insistedthat they could not give patients sufficient mediation to control their pain if that might hasten death.”(十一)(十二)Medical licensing boards “must make it clear that painful deaths are presumptively ones that are incompetently managed and should result in license suspension.”(十三)whose clear advantage was its mastery of the electronic world.(十四)Among the firms making the biggest splash in this new world is Straitford, Inc., a private intelligence-analysis firm based in Austin, Texas.(十五)Scientists need to respond forcefully to animal rights advocates, (whose arguments are confusing the public and(十六)If scientists have yet to create the mechanical version of science fiction, they have begun to come close.(十七)Despite a spell of initial optimism in the 1960s and 1970s when(修饰前边的spell 一小段时间a short interval)it appeared that transistor circuits and microprocessors might be able to copy the action of the human brain by the year 2010, researchers lately have begun to extend that forecast by decades if not centuries.(十八)For example, a grandmotherly woman staffing an animal rights booth at a recent street fair was distributing a brochure (that encouraged readers not to use anything (that comes from or is tested in animals—no meat, no fur, no medicines)).(十九)To those who are unaware that animal research was needed to produce these treatments, as well as new treatments and vaccines, animal research seems wasteful at best and cruel at worst.(二十)Finally, because the ultimate stakeholders are patients, the health research community should actively recruit to its cause not only well-known personalities such as Stephen Cooper, who has made courageous statements about the value of animal research, but all who receive medical treatment.(二十一)In recent years, railroads have been combining with each other, merging into supersystems, causing heightened(二十二)Shippers who feel they are being overcharged have the right to appeal to the federal government’s Surface Transportation Board for rate relief, but the process is expensive, time-consuming, and will work only in truly extreme cases.(二十三)Shippers who feel they are being overcharged have the right to appeal to the federal government’s Surface Transportation Board for rate relief, but the process is expensive, time-consuming, and will work only in truly extreme cases.(二十四)It is said that in England death is pressing, in Canada inevitable and in California optional.(二十五)25、Physicians -- frustrated by their inability to cure the disease and fearing loss of hope in the patient -- too often offer aggressive treatment far beyond what is scientifically justified(二十六)26、Former Colorado governor Richard Lamm has been quoted as saying that the old and infirm “have a duty to die and get out of the way,” so that younger, healthier people can realize their potential.(二十七)27、These leaders are living proof that prevention works and that we can manage the health problems that come naturally with age.(二十八)28、It’s an interactive feature that lets visitors key in job criteria such as location, title, and salary, then E-mails them when a matching position is posted in the database.(二十九)29、When CareerSite’s agent sends out messages to those who have signed up for its service, for example, it includes only three potential jobs -- those it considers the best matches.(三十)30、This, for those as yet unaware of such a disadvantage, refers to discrimination against those whose surnames begin with a letter in the lower half of the alphabet.(三十一)31、It has long been known that a taxi firm called AAAA cars has a big advantage over Zodiac cars when customers thumb through their phone directories.(三十二)32、Yet the result may be worse qualifications, because they get less individual attention, as well as less confidence in speaking publicly.(三十三)33、Shortlists for job interviews, election ballot papers, lists of conference speakers and attendees: all tend to be drawn up alphabetically, and their recipients lose interest as they plough through them.(三十四)34、Even before Alan Greenspan’s admission that America’s red-hot economy is cooling, lots of working folks had already seen signs of the slowdown themselves.(三十五)35、Consumers say they’re not in despair because, despite the dreadful headlines, their own fortunes still feel pretty good.(三十六)36、“Schools could be a counterbalance.” Ravitch’s latest book, Left Back: A Century of Failed School Reforms, traces the roots of anti-intellectualism in our schools, concluding they are anything but a counterbalance to the American distaste for intellectual pursuits.(三十七)37、However, when two monkeys were placed in separate but adjoining chambers, so that each could observe what the other was getting in return for its rock, their behavior became markedly different.(三十八)38、And if one received a grape without having to provide her token in exchange at all, the other either tossed her own token at the researcher or out of the chamber, or refused to accept the slice of cucumber.(三十九)39、However, whether such a sense of fairness evolved independently in capuchins and humans, or whether it stems from the common ancestor that the species had 35 million years ago, is, as yet, an unanswered question.(四十)40、Do you remember all those years when scientists argued that smoking would kill us but the doubters insisted that we didn’t know for sure?(四十一)41、But science does provide us with the best available guide to the future, and it is critical that our nation and the world base important policies on the best judgments that science can provide concerning the future consequences of present actions.(四十二)42、With the risks obvious and growing, a prudent people would take out an insurance policy now.(四十三)43、If we are ever going to protect the atmosphere, it is crucial that those new plants be environmentally sound.(四十四)44、Now researchers suspect that dreams are part of the mind’s emotional thermostat, regulating moods while the brain is “off-line.”(四十五)45、The brain is as active during REM (rapid eye movement) sleep -- when most vivid dreams occur -- as it is when fully awake, says Dr. Eric Nofzinger at the University of Pittsburgh.(四十六)46、Most people seem to have more bad dreams early in the night, progressing toward happier ones before awakening, suggesting that they are working through negative feelings generated during the day.(四十七)47、At the end of the day, there’s probably little reason to pay attention to our dreams at all unless they keep us from sleeping or “we wake up in a panic,” Cartwright says.(四十八)48、In his latest book, Doing Our Own Thing: The Degradation of Language and Music and Why We Should, Like, Care, John McWhorter, a linguist and controversialist of mixed liberal and conservative views, sees the triumph of 1960s counter-culture as responsible for the decline of formal English.(四十九)While even the modestly educated sought an elevated tone when they put pen to paper before the 1960s, even the most well regarded writing since then has sought to capture spoken English on the page.(五十)50、Russians have a deep love for their own language and carry large chunks of memorized poetry in their heads, while Italian politicians tend to elaborate speech that would seem old-fashioned to most English-speakers.(五十一)51、There is the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC), which presents superb productions of the plays at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre on the Avon.(五十二)52、It’s all deliciously ironic when you consider that Shakespeare, who earns their living, was himself an actor (with a beard) and did his share of noise-making.(五十三)53、It is the playgoers, the RSC contends, who bring in much of the town’s revenue because they spend the night (some of them four or five nights) pouring cash into the hotels and restaurants.(五十四)54、Hilton is building its own hotel there, which you may be sure will be decorated with Hamlet Hamburger Bars, the Lear Lounge, the Banquo Banqueting Room, and so forth, and will be very expensive.(五十五)55、They all seem to look alike (though they come from all over) -- lean, pointed, dedicated faces, wearing jeans and sandals, eating their buns and bedding down for the night on the flagstones outside the theatre to buy the 20 seats and 80 standing-room tickets held for the sleepers and sold to them when the box office opens at 10:30 a.m.(五十六)56、What researchers such as Ransom Myers and Boris Worm have shown is just how fast things are changing.(五十七)57、That means a higher proportion of what is in the sea is being caught, so the real difference between present and past is likely to be worse than the one recorded by changes in catch sizes.(五十八)58、What we forget -- what our economy depends on us forgetting -- is that happiness is more than pleasure without pain.(五十九)59、If you were to examine the birth certificates of every soccer player in 2006’s World Cup tournament, you would most likely find a noteworthy quirk: elite soccer players are more likely to have been born in the earlier months of the year than in the later months.(六十)60、whatever inborn differences two people may exhibit in their abilities to memorize, those differences are swamped by how well each person “encodes” the information.(六十一)61、It’s not obvious how the capacity to visualize objects and to figure out numerical patterns suits one to answer questions that have eluded some of the best poets and philosophers.(六十二)62、Research has found that IQ predicted leadership skills when the tests were given under low-stress conditions, but under high-stress conditions, IQ was negatively correlated with leadership--that is, it predicted the opposite.(六十三)63、As a result, they have lost the parachute they once had in times of financial setback——a back-up earner (usually Mom) who could go into the workforce if the primary earner got laid off or fell sick.(六十四)64、Steelworkers, airline employees, and now those in the auto industry are joining millions of families who must worry about interest rates, stock market fluctuation, and the harsh reality that they may outlive their retirement money.(六十五)65、From the middle-class family perspective, much of this, understandably, looks far less like an opportunity to exercise more financial responsibility, and a good deal more like a frightening acceleration of the wholesale shift of financial risk onto their already overburdened shoulders(六十六)66、Just as bosses and boards have finally sorted out their worst accounting and compliance troubles, and improved their feeble corporation governance, a new problem threatens to earn them – especially in America – the sort ofnasty headlines that inevitably lead to heads rolling in the executive suite: data insecurity.(六十七)67、Left, until now, to odd, low-level IT staff to put right, and seen as a concern only of data-rich industries such as banking, telecoms and air travel, information protection is now high on the boss’s agenda in businesses of every variety.(六十八)68、Surely it should be obvious to the dimmest executive that trust, the most valuable of economic assets, is easily destroyed and hugely expensive to restore – and that few things are more likely to destroy trust than a company letting sensitive personal data get into the wrong hands.(六十九)69、Meanwhile, the theft of information about some 40 million credit-card accounts in America, disclosed on June 17th, overshadowed a hugely important decision a day earlier by America’s Federal Trade Commission (FTC) that puts corporate America on notice that regulators will act if firms fail to provide adequate data security.(七十)70、Studies of both animals and humans have shown that sex hormones somehow affect the stress response, causing females under stress to produce more of the trigger chemicals than do males under the same conditions(七十一)71、Adding to a woman’s increased dose of stress chemicals are her increased “opportunities” for stress.(七十二)72、The kinds of interpersonal violence that women are exposed to tend to be in domestic situations, by, unfortunately, parents or other family members, and they tend not to be one-shot deals.(七十三)73、The Internet – with pressure from funding agencies, who are questioning why commercial publishers are making money from government-funded research by restricting access to it – is making access to scientific results a reality.(七十四)74、The report, by John Houghton of Victoria University in Australia and Graham Vickery of the OECD, makes heavy reading for publishers who have, so far, made handsome profits.(七十五)75、Finally, there are open-access archives, where organizations such as universities or international laboratories support institutional repositories(七十六)76、If he had played last season, however, he would have been one of 42.(七十七)77、Though typically about two inches taller now than 140 years ago, today’s people – especially those born to families who have lived in the U.S. for many generations – apparently reached their limit in the early 1960s.(七十八)78、Moreover, even though humans have been upright for millions of years, our feet and back continue to struggle with bipedal posture and cannot easily withstand repeated strain imposed by oversize limbs.(七十九)79、They have been spurred in part by DNA evidence made available in 1998, which almost certainly proved Thomas Jefferson had fathered at least one child with his slave Sally Hemings.(八十)80、While Washington and Jefferson privately expressed distaste for slavery, they also understood that it was part of the political and economic bedrock of the country they helped to create.(八十一)81、But brain researchers have discovered that when we consciouslydevelop new habits, we create parallel synaptic paths, and even entirely new brain cells, that can jump our trains of thought onto new, innovative tracks.82、At puberty, however, the brain shuts down half of that capacity, preserving only those modes of thought that have seemed mostvaluable during the first decade or so of life.(八十二)83、It is a wise father that knows his own child, but today a man can boost his paternal (fatherly) wisdom – or at least confirm that he’s the kid’s dad.(八十三)84、Among the most popular : paternity and kinship testing , which adopted children can use to find their biological relatives and latest rage many passionate genealogists-and supports businesses that offer to search for a family’s geographic roots .(八十四)85、The findings of a research institution have consistently shown that workers in all countries can be trained on the job to achieve radical higher productivity and, as a result, radically higher standards of living.(八十五)86、The most thoroughly studied in the history of the new world are the ministers and political leaders of seventeenth-century New England.87、While few craftsmen or farmers, let alone dependents and servants, left literary compositions to be analyzed, it is obvious that their views were less fully intellectualized.(八十六)88、It is difficult to the point of impossibility for the average reader under the age of forty to imagine a time when high-quality arts criticism could be found in most big-city newspapers.(八十七)89、“So few authors have brains enough or literary gift enough to keep their own end up in journalism,” Newman wrote, “that I am tempted to define ‘journalism’ as ‘a term of contempt applied by writers who are not read to writers who are’.”(八十八)90、During his lifetime, though, he was also one of England’s foremost classical-music critics, a stylist so widely admired that his Autobiography (1947) became a best-seller.(八十九)91、In a move that has intellectual-property lawyers abuzz the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit said it would use a particular case to conduct a broad review of business-method patents.(九十)92、Curbs on business-method claims would be a dramatic about-face, because it was the Federal Circuit itself that introduced such patents with its 1998 decision in the so-called State Street Bank case, approving a patent on a way of pooling mutual-fund assets.(九十一)93、Later, more established companies raced to add such patents to their files, if only as a defensive move against rivals that might beat them to the punch.(九十二)94、In his book The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell argues that social epidemics are driven in large part by the acting of a tiny minority of special individuals, often called influentials, who are unusually informed, persuasive, or well-connected.(九十三)95、In many such cases, a cursory search for causes finds that some small group of people was wearing, promoting, or developing whatever it is before anyone else paid attention.96、In their recent work, however, some researchers have come up with the finding that influentials have far less impact on social epidemics than is generally supposed.(九十四)97、The researchers’ argument stems from a simple observing about social influence: with the exception of a few celebrities like Oprah Winfrey—whose outsize presence is primarily a function of media, not interpersonal influence—even the most influential members of a population simply don't interact with that many others.(九十五)98、Charlie McCreevy, a European commissioner, warned the IASB that it did "not live in a political vacuum" but "in the real word" and that Europe could yet develop different rules.(九十六)99、As a description of the next music director of an orchestra that has hitherto been led by musicians like Gustav Mahler and Pierre Boulez, that seems likely to have struck at least some Times readers as faint praise.(九十七)100、Johnson & Johnson, for example, has created BabyCenter, a stand-alone media property that promotes complementary and even competitive products.(九十八)(九十九)(一○○)(一○一)(一○二)(一○三)(一○四)(一○五)(一○六)(一○七)(一○八)(一○九)(一一○)(一一一)(一一二)(一一三)(一一四)(一一五)(一一六)(一一七)(一一八)(一一九)(一二○)(一二一)(一二二)Whatever(状语从句)the differences two people may exhibit in jobs or careers(工作或事业), those differences are swamped by how well/ deeply each person loves their parents(宾从).不管两个人在工作或者事业上表现的差异有多大,这些差异在他们关爱父母的程度面前都显得无足轻重。

考研历年真题长难句解析

考研历年真题长难句解析

考研历年真题长难句解析1.It's a self-examination that has, at various times, involved issues of responsibility, creative freedom and the corporate bottom line.【译文】这只是在不同时期涉及责任、创作自由和公司底线问题的自我反省。

【析句】这是一个有定语从句的复杂句。

主干为It is aself-examination,that后面引导的是限定性定语从句,修饰self 瞖xamination,定语从句的宾语是一个of词组,跟着三个并列的名词短语,用来修饰和限定issues。

at various times是插入语,作句子的状语。

【讲词】bottom line意为“底价;底线”。

My bottom line is $3000.(我的底价是三千元。

)The government's bottom line with regard to the trade issue has not changed.(政府关于贸易争端的底线并没有发生变化。

)corporate意为“公司的;社团的;法人的;共同的”。

They made a corporateeffort to finish the job.(他们通过集体的共同努力完成这项工作。

)corporateresponsibility(共同责任或法人责任)。

2.In 1992, when Time Warner was under fire for releasing Ice-T's violent rap song Cop Killer, Levin described rap as lawful expression of street culture, which deserves an outlet.【译文】1992年时代华纳公司因出品Ice-T乐队狂暴的说唱歌曲《警察杀手》后备受谴责时,莱文说说唱音乐只是街头文化的合法表达方式,它应该有自己的宣泄途径。

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历年考研英语真题长难句解析考研英语试卷中,阅读理解和翻译共有50分,占到了全卷分数的半壁江山。

毫不夸张地说,把这两部分做好,在英语考试中取得理想的成绩便不再是奢望。

那么怎么样才能做好这一部分的试题呢?关键要通过大量的练习,增强阅读英文句子,尤其是其中长难句的能力。

长难句一般是指结构复杂难以理解的句子,也有一些其实结构并不复杂,但因为句子很长也很容易让人困惑。

长难句出现不多,但是常常大大增加我们理解的难度,成为我们获取高分的拦路虎.下面就近八年来考研试题中阅读理解和翻译中出现的长难句都列出来,分析它们的结构,指出其中的考查难点,并对如何恰当翻译它们给出建议,,希望大家能从中得到一些启发。

1. Such large, impersonal manipulation of capital and industry greatly increased the numbers and importance of shareholders as a class, (an element in national life representing irresponsible wealth detached from the land and the duties of the landowners; and almost equally detached from the responsible management of business).句子主干:Such large, impersonal manipulation of capital and industry greatly increased …shareholders as a class, (which was) an element…语法难点:本句是典型的非限定性定语从句,难点在其主语和宾语都有较长的短语和of 结构限定,并且分句是由两个and相连的3个部分组成的。

分句an element…landowners 又带有两个定语从句,一个是(which was) representing…, 另一个是(which was) detached…。

可见,定语从句的难点在于经常省略引导词+be的结构,从而在理解上容易和分词结构相混淆。

句子翻译:对资本和企业的这种大规模的非个人操纵大大增加了股东作为一个阶级的数量和重要性。

这个阶层作为国计民生的一部分,代表了非个人责任的财富与土地及土地所有者应尽义务的分离,而且也几乎与责任管理相分离。

翻译技巧:实际上定语从句并不符合汉语的使用习惯。

所以翻译时遇上定语从句,一定不要机械地按照原来的顺序生搬硬套。

像这样分句较长的情况,把主句和分句拆为两句是比较好的方法。

所以这里从这个阶层开始另起一句。

2. Towns like Bournemouth and Eastboune sprang up to house large, comfortable classes( who had retired on their incomes,and who had no relation to the rest of the community except that of drawing dividends and occasionally attending a shareholders’meeting to dictate their orders to the management.)句子主干:Towns…sprang up…classes who…, and who…语法难点:1)有并列从句。

分析句子主干很容易看到这也是一个典型的定语从句结构,分句由who…, and who…两个并列结构组成。

注意like并不是谓语而是介词短语作定语,真正的主句谓语是sprang of.retire on指依靠什么而退休(多跟表收入的名词).2) that of drawing dividends 结构中,draw是收取的意思,dividend指红利,that of sth结构是名词性的,that of sth相当于which is结构,目的都是修饰前面的名词。

注意后面还有attending…是省略了which were的定语从句,把of sth结构和定语从句交替使用是英语中长难句的惯用手法,目的是避免行文的单调,考生朋友们要注意分辨。

句子翻译:像Bournemouth和Eastboune这样的城市兴起了,大批隐退的享乐阶层人士靠自己的收入,在这里过着悠闲的生活。

他们与群体之外的人没有联系,只是分取红利,偶尔参加股东会议,对管理人员发号施令。

翻译技巧:同样是为了避开定语从句,将主句和分句拆为两句。

要注意几个短语的理解。

retire on 依靠……退休have…relation…to 与……有关系up to 达到……的规模3. Robert Fulton once wrote, The mechanic should sit down among levers, screws, wedges, wheels, etc.,like a poet among the letters of the alphabet , considering them as an exhibition of his thoughts, in which a new arrangement transmits a new idea.句子主干:Robert Fulton once wrote, The mechanic should sit down…, like a …, considering them as…, in which a…语法难点:省略。

1) like…分句是省略了who 的主语从句中的分句,considering…分句是现在分词引导的状语从句。

这个状语从句可以拿到句首,也可以在句尾。

一般来说较长的状语从句臵于句尾,较短的臵于句首,为的是使句子看上去显得简洁一些。

2) like分句中出现了比较多的省略,补全以后是who like a poet who is among the letters….英语中的从句之所以是难点就是因为大量地省略引导词。

句子翻译:罗博特〃富尔顿曾经写道,机械工将坐在杠杆、螺丝、楔、轮子等周围,像诗人对待字母表中的每个字母一样,把它们作为自己的思路展示,每一个新组合都传送一个新概念。

翻译技巧:如果严格地翻译,like分句应该译为像对待字母表中字母的诗人一样,原因是这个从句修饰的是机械工,应该用诗人来对应,但这样一来,就不符合汉语的表达习惯了。

4. Some of these causes are completely reasonable results of social needs. Others are reasonable consequences of particular advances in science being to some extent self-accelerating.句子主干:Some of these causes are reasonable results…, Others are consequences of advances…语法难点:主语是some of these causes,实际的主语就是some,不过谓语是单数还是复数则取决于of后面的成分是单数还是复数。

being to…是定语从句的分句结构,意为"属于".句子翻译:在这些原因中,有些完全是自然而然地来自社会需求,另一些则是由于科学在一定程度上自我加速而产生的某些特定发展的必然结果。

翻译技巧:这个翻译比较简单,注意being to的翻译即可。

5. This trend began during the Second World War, when several governments came to the conclusion that the specific demands that a government wants to make of its scientific establishment cannot generally be foreseen in detail.句子主干:This trend began during …, when…, that…语法难点:1)套和从句。

这个句子实际上是This trend began.其余的成分都是在起修饰和限定作用。

在分析长难句时一定要注意找出句子的主干,关键是确定句子的主语和谓语,只有这样才不会被众多的修饰成分所迷惑。

2)When引导的是时间状语从句。

第一个that引导的是修饰conclusion的定语从句,第二个that引导的是修饰demands的定语从句,wants前省略了which,是引导的修饰a government的主语从句。

句子翻译:这种趋势始于第二次世界大战期间,当时一些国家的政府下了结论,认为:政府向科研机构提出的具体要求通常是无法详尽预见的。

翻译技巧:此句中短语较多。

come to the conclusion 形成某种结论make of 提出in detail 详细地6. This seems mostly effectively done by supporting a certain amount of research not related to immediate goals but of possible consequence in the future.句子主干:This seems …done by supporting a certain amount of research not…but…语法难点:注意not…but句型,意为“不是……而是……”句子翻译:给某些与当前目标无关但将来可能产生影响的科研提供支持,看来通常能有效地解决这一问题。

翻译技巧:严格说来,not…but结构应译为“不是……而是……”,但这样就显得罗嗦,所以译为“与……无关”,但(另一些有关)。

a amount of指“数量达到……”, be related to指“与……有关”。

7. However, the world is so made that elegant systems are in principle unable to deal with some of the world’s more fascination and delightful aspects.句子主干:However, the world is so made that…systems are …unable to deal with some of the …aspects语法难点:so made指如此构成,so和后面的that构成so…that结构,意为如此……以至于…….be…(un)able to指可以(或不可以)…….句子翻译:然而,世界就是如此。

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