唐启明长难句唐启明长难句.doc

化繁为简—破解英语长难句 前言 众生皆曰考研英语难，但究竟难在何处？答，长难句。这是考研英语令考生最头疼、最痛苦的部分。考研英语各题型（阅读、翻译）所选文章的很多句子太长，结构太过复杂，复杂到句子成分繁乱如麻。 请看下面的一篇考研难度的文章。 Many things lead people to the assumption that artists are weird and the weirdest may be this: artists only job is to explore human beings’ emotions, and yet they choose to focus on the ones that feel bad. Nevertheless, this wasnt always as it was supposed to be. The earliest forms of art, like painting and music, are those best suited for expressing joy. But somewhere in the 19th century, more artists began seeing happiness as insipid, phony or, worst of all, boring as we went from Wordsworths daffodils to Baudelaires flowers of evil. You could argue that art became more skeptical of happiness because modern times have seen such misery. But it‘s not as if earlier times didn‘t know perpetual war, disaster and the massacre of innocents. The reason, in fact, may be just the opposite: there is too much damn happiness in the world today. After all, what is the one modern form of expression almost completely dedicated to depicting happiness? Advertising. The rise of anti-happy art almost exactly tracks the emergence of mass media, and with it, a commercial culture in which happiness is not just an ideal but an ideology. People in earlier eras were surrounded by reminders of misery, given that they worked until exhausted, lived with hardly any protections, and died rather young. In the West, before mass communication and literacy, the most powerful mass medium was the church, which reminded worshippers that their souls were in great peril and that they would someday be meat for worms. Given all this, they did not exactly need their art to be a bummer too. Today the messages your average Westerner is bombarded with are much more commercial than religious, and forever happy. Fast-food eaters, news anchors, text messengers, etc., all present smiling, smiling. Our magazines are busy featuring those beaming celebrities (with broad toothpaste-commercial sm