最新考研英语典型长难句

2006年阅读真题 Text2

1. And there are the townsfolk who largely live off the tourists who come, not to see the plays, but to look at Anne Hathaway's Cottage, Shakespeare's birthplace and the other sights.

译文：另一方则是很大程度上依赖游客而谋生的当地居民，这些游客来到镇上，不是为了看戏，而是来参观安·哈瑟维小屋、莎士比亚出生地及其他景点。

2. 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.

译文：当你想到为他们提供生计的莎士比亚本人就是个留着胡须、吵吵嚷嚷的演员时，这真是一个极好的讽刺。

3. 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.

译文：希尔顿酒店正在这里构建自己的旅馆，你几乎可以肯定它会配有哈姆雷特汉堡包店、李尔休息室、班柯宴会包间等等，而且价格昂贵。

4. 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.

译文：他们虽然来自世界各地，看起来却都很相像——身材消瘦，棱角分明，神情执着，穿着牛仔裤和凉鞋，啃着圆面包，躺在剧院外的石板上过夜，等着买20张预留给露宿者的座位票和80张站票。在上午10点半售票处开门时他们就可以买到这些票。

Text3

1. 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.

译文：这就意味着更高比例的海洋物种正在被捕捞，因此现在和过去之间的真正差异可能比用捕捞规模变化所记录的要更糟糕。

2. Some individuals would therefore not have been caught, since no baited hooks would have been available to trap them, leading to an underestimate of fish stocks in the past.

译文：个别的鱼没有被捕捉，是因为没有可用来诱惑它们的带饵的钩，这导致了过去对鱼类资源量的低估。

3. That matters because theory suggests that the maximum sustainable yield that can be cropped from a fishery comes when the biomass of a target species is about 50% of its original levels.

译文：而这很重要，因为理论认为当目标物种的生物量达到原始基数的50%左右时，从渔场中可以获得最大的可持续产量。

2007年阅读真题 Text2

1. So it is a bit confusing when vos Savant fields such queries from the average Joe (whose IQ is 100) as, What's the difference between love and fondness? Or what is the nature of luck and coincidence?

译文：因此，莎凡（居然能）巧妙回答（智商为100的）普通人提出的诸如"爱与喜欢有何区别"或"运气和巧合的本质是什么"这类问题，这令人感到有些费解。

2. 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.

译文：那些想象物体和计算数字模式的能力如何满足了（莎凡）回答那些曾难倒部分最优秀诗人和哲学家的问题的需要，这一点难以明确。

3. Anyone who has toiled through SAT will testify that test-taking skill also matters, whether it's knowing when to guess or what questions to skip.

译文：任何熬过"学术能力评估测试"的人都可以证明，应试技能也很重要，比如知道何时应该猜测或者什么题目可以略过不答。

Text4

1. 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 of nasty headlines that inevitably lead to heads rolling in the executive suite: data insecurity.