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考研英语的备考练习中，可以有效的利用《经济学人》、《卫报》等资料提高自己的英语分析水平。北外网课张剑考研组将推送几篇文章，分析其中的词汇、短语、长难句及段落翻译，希望可以帮助同学们更好的复习。张剑老师介绍：北京外国语大学英语学院院长，考研英语命题人，博士生导师。 引语：文化类文章的难点不像经济类等文章难在内容本身，而是难在对具体单词，短语和句式的理解是否到位；当然，有时还可能稍微有一些欧美的文化背景知识，比如他们经常的标榜的民主与自由之价值观。所以我们的破解之处就是平时打好英语基本功，这样才能扎实通关。 Here I Am by Jonathan Safran Foer review — self-expression in the Jewish diaspora An imploding marriage and a global crisis collide in a dizzying third novel. Life in any community is almost always defined by rituals: participating in them, shunning them, protecting them, carving out private space in which to enact singular versions, or subversions, of them. It’s questionable whether scale makes much difference: are the rituals that bind a couple, a family, a school or religious community categorically different from those that keep a country, an ethnicity or a culture from disintegrating? Will those who live apart from others, by deprivation or choice, continue to perform guttering shadow versions of half-remembered custom and practice? 背景知识： Jonathan Safran Foer 乔纳森·萨弗兰·福尔，作家。 基础词汇 imploding adj. 爆聚的，向内爆裂的 collide v. 碰撞，使相撞；抵触，冲突 dizzying adj. 令人目不暇接的；眼花缭乱的 ritual n. 礼仪，仪式 participate v. 参加 shun v. 避开，避免；回避 enact v. 颁布；制定法律 questionable adj. 可疑的；有问题的 bind v. 绑；约束 ethnicity n. 种族，族群 disintegrate v. 瓦解 deprivation n. 剥夺，丧失 超纲词汇 diaspora n. 犹太人的离散，大流散 (Jewish diaspora 犹太人的大离散) subversion n. 子版本 categorically adv. 无条件的，绝对的 gutter v. 忽明忽暗，摇曳不定 【长难句翻译】 1. An imploding marriage and a global crisis collide in a dizzying third novel. 分析：简单句，用词难度较高，and前后的并列名词短语共同作该简单句的主语。 翻译：由内破裂的婚姻和全球危机在令人目不暇接的第三部小说中碰撞开来。 2. Life in any community is almost always defined by rituals: participating in them, shunning them, protecting them, carving out private space in which to enact singular versions, or subversions, of them. 分析：in any community 是life的后置定语，life是主语；“:”之后是补充说明部分，四个并列的动名词结构进行详细解释rituals；which做状语，向前指代private space，which 之后的to部分表目的。 翻译：在任何社区的生活几乎都是由礼仪界定：参与之，躲避之，保护之