历年英语六级真题长难句摘选精析.pdfVIP

历年英语六级真题长难句摘选 精析 历年真题长难句摘选精析 1 ．Our linguistic （语言上的）and cultural blindness and the casualness with which we take notice of the developed tastes, gestures, customs and languages of other countries, are losing us friends, business and respect in the world. 【分析】这是一个复杂的简单句；句子的主干是 Our blindness and casualness are losing us. with which 引导一个定语从句修饰 casualness. take notice of 意思是“注意到”。 【译文】我们对语言、文化的无知，以及那种对 其他国家形成的品味、手势、风俗和语言的漫不 经心的态度，正使我们在世界上失去朋友，错过 商机，丧失威信。 2 ．A simple trip around the yard in a pair of those babies eliminates(消除) all need to call for a lawn( 草坪) care specialist, and provides the perfect-sized holes to give any lawn oxygen without all those messy chunks ( 块)of dirt lying around. 【分析】这是一个复杂的简单句；句子的主干是 A simple trip eliminates all need and provides holes. messy chunks of dirt：乱七八糟的脏东西。 【译文】只要穿这种娇小的鞋在院子里走一走， 就完全没必要请修剪草坪的专家了，因为这会形 成大小合适的洞为草坪提供氧气，周围还不会留 下那些乱七八糟的脏东西。 3 ．But my own worry today is less that of the overwhelming problem of elemental literacy than it is of the slightly more luxurious problem of the decline in the skill even of the middle-class reader, of his unwillingness to afford those spaces of silence, those luxuries of domesticity and time and concentration, that surround the image of the classic act of reading. 【分析】这是一个带有比较级的句子，主干是： But my own worry today is less that than. 【译文】但我今天所担心的不是广泛泛滥的文 盲问题，而是更加奢侈一点的问题，即：对中产 阶级读者读写技能下降了的担忧，他们不愿把安 静的地方、难得的家庭生活的机会、时间和注意 力用来读书，而典型的读书活动正需要这些。 4 ． This violation of concentration, silence, solitude （独处的状态）goes to the very heart of our notion of literacy; this new form of part-reading, of part-perception against background distract