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考研英语复习指导：考研英语经典句解析十四 1. A critique of Handlins interpretation ofwhy legal slavery did not appear until the 1660s suggests that assumptions about the relation between slavery and racial prejudice should be reexamined , and that explanations for the different treatment of Black slaves in North and South America should be expanded . 一个对于 H 的关于为何法律上的奴隶制没有在17 世纪 60 年代以前出现的原因所作解释 的批评显示，关于奴隶制和种族偏见之间的关系的假说应当重新检查，而且显示出，对于在 北美和南美之间的对黑怒的不同处理的解释应当被扩展。 难句类型：复杂修饰、省略 解释：句子的主干清楚：A critique suggests that..., and suggests that...。但是 因为句子的结构复杂、修饰成分多，再加上后面的and 之后的 suggests 被省略，所以句子 的结构很难被读出来的。 本句的 suggest不再是暗示，而是显示、说明的意思，其同义词有point,indicate,imply。 本句的两个 suggest 之后的宾语从句都根据语法要求使用了虚拟语气。 意群训练：A critique of Handlins interpretation of why legal slavery did not appear until the 1660s suggests that assumptions about the relation between slavery and racial prejudice should be reexamined , and that explanations for the different treatment of Black slaves in North and South America should be expanded . 2. The best evidence for the layered-mantle thesis is the well-established fact that volcanic rocks found on oceanic islands，islands believed to result fro mantle plumes arising fro the lowermantle，are composed of material fundamentally different from that of the mid-ocean ridge syste， whose source，most geologists contend， is the upper mantle. 对于地幔分层论点来说，的证据乃这样一个确认的事实，即在那些海洋岛屿--这些岛屿 据信是源于由下层地幔升上来的地幔柱状溶岩流（mantle plume）--上发现的火山岩石，是 由与海洋中部山脊系统的物质根本不同的物质构成的，而这一海洋中部山脊系统的成因，大 多数地质学家论辩道，为上部地幔。 难句类型：复杂修饰、插入语 解释：本句前面的主干并不算难，即 the evidence is the fact that,难就难在 fact 之后说明 fact 的同位语从句。此从句中既有大段插入语，又有从句，较为难读。同位语从 句的主语是 volcanic rocks，主语后面的found on oceanic islands 是分词修饰 volcanic rocks 的；islands 后面又有一个说明 islands 的同位语 islands believed to result fro mantle plumes arising from the lower mantle,此同位语实际起到一个分隔主谓的同位语 的作用。其后是谓语动词 are composed/of fundamentally different from that of the midocean ridge system, whose source, most geologists contend, is th