决定了日更,纯英文输出/英语句子解析/翻译练习/分享英语相关类美文,每日于四者之中择其一、二为功课,恪行之。
①美文共欣赏:如何自主高效学习英文口语?https://www.zhihu.com/answer/897387383
②英句解析,来自何凯文66长难句
During the past generation, the American middle-class family that once could count on hard work and fair play to keep itself financially secure has been transformed by economic risk and new realities.
【词汇突破】count on 依靠; fair play 公平竞争
【主干识别】the American middle-class family has been transformed主干是主谓结构被动态;
【其他成分】that once could count on hard work and fair play to keep itself financially secure 定语从句修饰middle-class family;During the past generation和by economic risk and new realities做状语;
【微观解析】the American middle-class family 为句子主语,谓语是has been transformed;During the past generation和by economic risk and new realities 为状语;that 引导一个定语从句,that在从句中做主语,谓语为 could count on, 宾语为hard work and fair play;to keep itself financially secure为状语。
【难点揭秘】主语后接了较长的修饰成份使这个句子在阅读时主干不容易把握。造成理解的困难。
【译文赏析】在过去的20多年时间里,那些曾经依靠辛勤工作和公平竞争就可以保证自己财政收支安全的美国中产阶级家庭已经被经济风险和新的现实所改变。(定语从句前置的翻译方法来处理这个句子)
5. Much of the language used to describe monetary policy, such as “steering the economy to a soft landing” or “a touch on the brakes”, makes it sound like a precise science. Nothing could be further from the truth.
【词汇突破】steer 指挥,控制 precise 精确的
【主干识别】Much of the language makes it sound like precise science.主+谓+宾+宾补结构
【其他成分】used to describe monetary policy过去分词短语做后置定语修饰the language;such as “steering the economy to a soft landing” or “a touch on the brakes”形容词短语;形容词短语做后置定语修饰the language。
【难点揭秘】主语后接了较长的修饰成份使这个句子在阅读时主干不容易把握。造成理解的困难。
【译文赏析】有很多用于描述货币政策的词汇,例如“操纵经济软着陆”或者“轻踩刹车”,使货币政策听起来像是一门精确的科学。没有什么比这更远离实际情况的了。(但这些说法是最不靠谱的,事情远非如此用来表示强烈的反对 这与I cann’t agree with you more有异曲同工之妙)
【翻译点拨】第二个句子的翻译中可以使用正话反说的方法来进行翻译,在肯定和否定之间进行转换。可以参考下面的两个例子:
(1)An opportunity is not likely to repeat itself. 机会难得。
(2)Such things are of no rare occurrence. 这些事情经常发生。
【作文】用于批驳对方的时候就可以用:Nothing could be further from the truth.
6. On another level, many in the medical community acknowledge that the assisted--suicide debate has been fueled in part by the despair of patients for whom modern medicine has prolonged the physical agony of dying.
【词汇突破】agony 痛苦 despair 绝望 prolong 延长
【主干识别】many acknowledge that +宾语从句 (many 作为代词表示很多人,或者很多个体)
【其他成分】on another level 做状语和in the medical community做定语;the assisted--suicide debate has been fueled by the despair of patients为宾语从句主干;