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新概念难句解析 1. The only way that they can preserve their history is to recount it as sagas--legends handed down from one generation of story-tellers to another. 解读 :legends 作 sagas 的同位语 , 后接被动分词短语做定语。 基本结构：主＋定＋谓＋宾＋同位。 翻译 : 他们保存历史的唯一方法是把历史作为英雄故事讲述 -- 由说书者代代相 传。 2.One can tell the difference almost at a glance for the spider always has eight legs and an insect never more than six. 解读 : 主谓宾 +原因状语（省略句） an insect never more than six 应该理解为昆虫只有六条腿而不是昆虫绝不多 于六条腿 , 全句翻译如下 : 翻译 : 谁都可以一眼就看出蜘蛛与昆虫不同 , 蜘蛛都是八条腿 , 而昆虫最多只有六 条。 3. Such inns as there were dirty and flea-ridden; the food simply local cheese accompanied by bread often twelve months old, all washed downwith coarse wine. 解读 : 第二个分句中 ,simply 是副词，意为“食物只有 ”，而 accompanied 含被动意思，说明人们把陈面包和乳酪搭配着吃，并不是乳酪自己同面包相配。 第二句作者把谓语省略了。 翻译：那里的小旅店通常又肮脏， 跳蚤又多． 吃的食物仅仅是当地产的乳酪加上 存放了一年之久的面包，大家只能就着下等酒把它们吞下去． 4.The gorilla is something of a paradox in the African scene. 解读：这里的 paradox 并不是说猩猩是自相矛盾的动物， 而是指人们对其捉摸不 透。 翻译：大猩猩是非洲景观中有点让人捉摸不透的家伙。 5.All this and many other things remain almost as much a mystery as they were when the French explorer Du Chaillu first described the animal to the civilized world a century ago. 解读 : 句子是一个比较复杂的主从复合长句，应该采用分句法，逆序法来译，先 将 when 引导的状语从句译，再译出主句。 翻译： 100 年前法国探险家 Du Chaillu 第一次向文明世界叙述过这种动物，如 今这一切和其他许多事情几乎像 100 年前一样，仍然是个谜。 6.I would have been very pleased to be regarded as something so interesting as a problem. For one thing, being a problem gives you a certain identity, and that is one of the things the young are busily engaged in seeking. 解读 :identity 指的是与众不同的个性，不是指身份 翻译：假如有人认为我是一个麻烦的话，我一定会感到十分得意。至少，被人看 成问题会使别人在某种程度上认识我是谁。 这点正是年轻人所热衷追求的事情之 一。 7.On the village green, where you pick up sides and no feeling of local patriotism is involved, it is possible to play simply for the fun