長難句結(jié)構(gòu)分析最新經(jīng)典四十句

1. The American economic system is, organized around a basically private-enterprise, market- oriented economy in which consumers largely determine what shall be produced by spending their money in the marketplace for those goods and services that they want most.

[參考譯文] 美國的經(jīng)濟(jì)是以基本的私有企業(yè)和市場導(dǎo)向經(jīng)濟(jì)為架構(gòu)的，在這種經(jīng)濟(jì)中，消費(fèi)者很大程度上通過在

市場 上為 那些他們最想要的貨品和服務(wù)付費(fèi)來決定什么應(yīng)該被制造出來。

2. Thus, in the American economic system it is the demand of individual consumers, coupled with

the desire of businessmen to maximize profits and the desire of individuals to maximize their

incomes, that together determine what shall be produced and how resources are used to produce

it.

[參考譯文] 因此，在美國的經(jīng)濟(jì)體系中，個(gè)體消費(fèi)者的需求與商人試圖最大化其利潤的欲望和個(gè)人想最大化

其收 入效 用的欲望相結(jié)合，一起決定了什么 應(yīng)該被制造，以及資源如何被用來制造它們。

3. If, on the other hand, producing more of a commodity results in reducing its cost, this will tend to increase the supply offered by seller-producers, which in turn will lower the price and permit

more consumers to buy the product.

[參考譯文] 另一方面，如果大量制造某種商品導(dǎo)致其成本下降，那么這就有可能增加賣方和制造商

能提供的供給，而這也就會(huì)反過來降低價(jià)格并允許更多 的消 費(fèi)者購買產(chǎn)品。

4. In the American economy, the concept of private property embraces not only the ownership of productive resources but also certain rights, including the right to determine the price of a

product or to make a free contract with another private individual.

[參考譯文] 在美國經(jīng)濟(jì)中，私有財(cái)產(chǎn)的概念不僅包含對生產(chǎn)資源的所有權(quán)， 也指其他一些特定的權(quán)利，

如確定一個(gè)產(chǎn)品價(jià)格和與另一個(gè)私人個(gè)體(經(jīng)濟(jì)單 位) 自由簽定合同的權(quán)利。

5. At the same time these computers record which hours are busiest and which employers are the most efficient, allowing personnel and staffing assignments to be made accordingly. And they also identify preferred customers for promotional campaigns.

[參考譯文] 同時(shí)這些計(jì)算機(jī)記錄下哪些時(shí)間是最忙的，哪些員工工作效率最 高，這樣就能相應(yīng)地做出人

員人事安排。而且它們(計(jì)算機(jī))也能為促銷活動(dòng)找 到那些擁有優(yōu)先權(quán)的顧客。

6. Numerous other commercial enterprises, from theaters to magazine publishers, from gas and electric utilities to milk processors, bring better and more efficient services to consumers

through the

use of computers.

[參考譯文] 不計(jì)其數(shù)的其他商業(yè)企業(yè)，從劇院到雜志出版商，從公用燃?xì)怆?力設(shè)施到牛奶處理廠，都

通過計(jì)算機(jī)的使用給消費(fèi)者帶來更好、更有效率的 服務(wù)。

7. Exceptional children are different in some significant way from others of the same age For these children to develop to their full adult potential, their education must be adapted to those differences.

[參考譯文] 殘疾兒童在許多關(guān)鍵方面都與其同齡人不同。為了讓這些孩子發(fā)展其全部的成人后的潛能，

他們的教育必須適應(yīng)這些不同。

8. The great interest in exceptional children shown in public education over the past three decades indicates the strong feeling in our society that all citizens, whatever their special conditions, deserve the opportunity to fully develop their capabilities.

[參考譯文] 在過去的30年中，公共教育中顯示的對殘疾兒童的巨大關(guān)注表明了我們社會(huì)中的一種中強(qiáng)烈的

情緒，那就是所有的公民，不管其情況有多 特殊，都應(yīng)享有充分發(fā)展其能力的機(jī)會(huì)。

9. It serves directly to assist a rapid distribution of goods at reasonable price, thereby establishing a firm home market and so making it possible to provide for export at competitive prices.

[參考譯文] 它(廣告)能夠直接幫助貨物以比較合理的價(jià)格被迅速分銷出去，因此可以(使公司)建立一個(gè)堅(jiān)固的國

內(nèi)市場，同時(shí)也使以具有競爭力的價(jià)格 提供出口變得可能。

10. Apart from the fact that twenty-seven acts of Parliament govern the terms of advertising, no regular advertiser dare promote a product that fails to live up to the promise of his advertisements.

[參考譯文] 除去議會(huì)有27件法案來規(guī)范廣告的條件，沒有任何一個(gè)正式的廣 告商敢于推銷一種商

品卻不能兌現(xiàn)其在廣告中的承諾。

11. If its message were confined merely to information and that in itself would be difficult if not impossible to achieve, for even a detail such as the choice of the color of a shirt is subtly

persuasive-advertising wound be so boring that no one wound pay any attention.

[參考譯文] 如果其信息只被局限于告知一一就廣告而言，如果這不是完全不 可能達(dá)到的，也是非

常難做的，因?yàn)榧幢闶且粋€(gè)諸如襯衫的顏色的選擇這樣 的細(xì)節(jié)都會(huì)具有微妙的說 服意味，

那么廣告就會(huì)如此地乏味以至于沒有人 會(huì)關(guān)注它。

12. The workers who gets a promotion, the student whose grades improve, the foreigner who learns a new language-all these are examples of people who have measurable results to show for there efforts.

[參考譯文] 得到了升遷的工人們，成績進(jìn)步的學(xué)生，學(xué)會(huì)了一門新語言的外 國人一 一這些都是那

些有可衡量的結(jié)果宋顯示其努力的人們的例證。

13. As families move away from their stable community, their friends of many years, their extended family relationships, the informal flow of information is cut off, and with it the confidence that

information will be available when needed and will be trustworthy and reliable.

[參考譯文] 隨著家庭離開他們原來穩(wěn)定的社區(qū)，離開他們多年的朋友和擴(kuò)展 的家庭關(guān)系，非正式的

信息 流動(dòng)被切斷了，隨之而去的是對在需要時(shí)能獲得 可靠和值得信賴的信息的信心。

14. The individual now has more information available than any generation, and the task of finding that one piece of information relevant to his or her specific problem is complicated,

time--consuming, and sometimes even overwhelming.

[參考譯文] 現(xiàn)在每個(gè)人能夠得到的信息比任何時(shí)代的人都多，而找到與 他/她的特定問題相關(guān)

的那一點(diǎn)信息的任務(wù)不僅復(fù)雜、耗時(shí)，有時(shí)甚至令 人難以招 。

15. Expertise can be shared world wide through teleconferencing, and problems in dispute can be settled without the participants leaving their homes and/or jobs to travel to a distant conference

site.

[參考譯文] 通過遠(yuǎn)程會(huì)議，專家知識(shí)可以在全世界范圍內(nèi)被分享，而爭論 的問題能夠得到解決，

同時(shí)相關(guān)人員也不必離開他們的家庭或工作跑到一個(gè) 遙遠(yuǎn)的開會(huì)地點(diǎn)。

16. The current passion for making children compete against their classmates or against the clock produces a two-layer system, in which competitive A-types seem in some way better than their B type fellows.

[參考譯文] 現(xiàn)在這種讓孩子們和其同學(xué)或時(shí)間競爭的熱情導(dǎo)致了一個(gè)雙層結(jié) 構(gòu)，在這個(gè)結(jié)構(gòu)里面善于

競爭的A類好像在某個(gè)方面要比他們B類的同輩更勝 一籌。

17. While talking to you, your could-be employer is deciding whether your education, your experience, and other qualifications will pay him to employ you and your "wares" and abilities must be displayed in an orderly and reasonably connected manner.

[參考譯文] 在跟你談話的時(shí)候，可能成為你的雇主的人就一直在衡量你的教 育、經(jīng) 驗(yàn)和其他資

格是不是值得他雇用你，而你的"商品"和能力一定要以一種有條不紊而且合情合理的相互關(guān)聯(lián)

的方式被展示出來。

18. The Corporation will survive as a publicly funded broadcasting organization, at least for the time being, but its role, its size and its programs are now the subject of a nation wide debate in

Britain.

[參考譯文] 英國廣播公司將作為一個(gè)公共基金支持的廣播組織存在下來， 至少目前 會(huì)這樣，但是

它的角色、它的規(guī)模和它的節(jié)目現(xiàn)在在英國成了全國 上下 的討論話題。

19. The debate was launched by the Government, which invited anyone with an opinion of the BBC--including ordinary listeners and viewer to say what was good or bad about the Corporation, and even whether they thought it was worth keeping.

[參考譯文] 這場辯論是由政府發(fā)動(dòng)的，政府請任何一個(gè)對英國廣播公司有意見的人 一包括普通的聽

眾和觀眾一來說說這個(gè)公司好在哪里或壞在哪里，甚至說說他們是否認(rèn)為這個(gè)公司值得被保留下來。

20. The change met the technical requirements of the new age by engaging a large profess signal element and prevented the decline in efficiency that so commonly spoiled the fortunes of family firms in the second and third generation after the energetic founders.

[參考譯文] 這種變化通過引入許多的專業(yè)因素從而適應(yīng)了這個(gè)新時(shí)代的技術(shù) 要求， 并且它(這種變

化)防止了效率的降低。這種效率的降低在精力充沛的 創(chuàng)業(yè)者之后的 第二代和第三代人 ( 領(lǐng)導(dǎo)公

司)的時(shí)候，經(jīng)常會(huì)毀掉那些 家族公 司的財(cái)富。

21. Such large, impersonal manipulation of capital and industry greatly increased the numbers and importance of shareholders as a class, an element in national life representing irresponsible wealth detached from the land and the duties of the landowners: and almost equally detached from the responsible management of business.

[參考譯文] 這樣巨大而非個(gè)人的對資金和產(chǎn)業(yè)的操縱極大地增加了股東的數(shù) 量和他們作為一個(gè)階級

的重要 性，這是國家生活中代表不負(fù)責(zé)任的財(cái)富的一 個(gè) 因素，這種財(cái)富不但遠(yuǎn)離了土 地和土

地?fù)碛姓叩呢?zé)任，而且?guī)缀跬瑯优c 公司的負(fù)責(zé)任的管理毫無關(guān)系。

22. Towns like Bournemouth and Eastbourne sprang up to house large "comfortable" classes who had retired on their incomes, and who had no relation to the rest of the community except that of drawing dividends and occasionally attending a shareholders' meeting to dictate their orders to the management.

[參考譯文] 像伯恩茅斯和伊斯特本這樣的城鎮(zhèn)的涌現(xiàn)是為了給那些數(shù)量很多 的"舒 適"階級提供居住

場所。這些人依賴于其豐厚收入而不工作，他們除了 分紅和偶爾參加一 下股東大會(huì)，向管理層

口授一下自己的命令之外，跟 社會(huì)的其他階層毫無瓜葛。

23. The "shareholders" as such had no knowledge of the lives, thoughts or needs of the workmen employed by the company in which he held shares, and his influence on the relations of capital and labor was not good.

[參考譯文] 這樣的"股東"對他擁有股份的公司所雇用的工人們的生活、思想 和需 求一無所知，而

且他們 對勞資雙方的關(guān)系都不會(huì)產(chǎn)生積極的影響。

24. The paid manager acting for the company was in more direct relation with the men and their demands, but even he had seldom that familiar personal knowledge of the workmen which the employer had often had under the more patriarchal system of the old family business now passing away.

[參考譯文] 代表公司的花錢雇來的經(jīng)理與工人及其需求的關(guān)系更加直接， 但是就連 他對工人們也

沒有那種熟識(shí)的私人之間的了解。而在現(xiàn)在正在消 失的古 老家族公司的那種更加家 長式的制度下

的雇主們卻常常對他們的工 人有 這樣的私人關(guān)系。

25. Among the many shaping factors, I would single out the country's excellent elementary schools: a labor force that welcomed the new technology; the practice of giving premiums to inventors; and above all the American genius for nonverbal, "spatial" thinking about things technological.

[參考譯文] 在許多形成因素當(dāng)中，我將挑選出這些：這個(gè)國家優(yōu)秀的小學(xué)教 育：歡 迎新技術(shù)

的勞動(dòng)者們：獎(jiǎng)勵(lì)發(fā)明者的做法;而且最重要的是美國人在 對 那些技術(shù)性事物的非 言語的、"空

間性的"思考方面的天賦。

26. As Eugene Ferguson has pointed out, "A technologist thinks about objects that can not be reduced to unambiguous verbal descriptions: they are dealt with in his mind by a visual, nonverbal

process...The designer and the inventor.., are able to assemble and manipulate in their minds devices that as yet do not exist".

[參考譯文] 正如尤金•弗格森所指出的那樣："一個(gè)技術(shù)專家思考那些不能被 簡化成 能被清楚的語言

描述的東西。這些東西在他的思維中是通過一種視覺 的、 非語言表述的過程宋處理

的……設(shè)計(jì)者和發(fā)明者……能夠在他們的腦中 裝配并操作那些還不存在的裝置。"

27. Robert Fulton once wrote, "The mechanic should sit down among levers, screws, wedges, wheel, etc, like a poet among the letters of the alphabet, considering them as an exhibition of his thoughts, in which a new arrangement transmits a new idea".

[參考譯文] 羅伯特•法歐特曾經(jīng)這樣寫到："一個(gè)技師會(huì)坐在杠桿、螺絲釘、 楔子、 輪子等等當(dāng)中，就

像 一個(gè)詩人沉浸在字母表的字母中，把這些字母看 成 自己思想的展示，在這樣的

展示中，每種新的次 序安排都傳達(dá)了--種新 的思想。"

28. In the last three chapters, he takes off his gloves and gives the creationists a good beating. He describes their programs and, tactics, and, for those unfamiliar with the ways of creationists,

the extent of their deception and distortion may come as an unpleasant surprise.

[參考譯文] 在最后三章中，他脫下手套，將神造論者好好地揍了一頓。 他描述了他 們的活動(dòng)和戰(zhàn)

術(shù)，而且，對于那些對神造論者的做事方式刁;

熟悉的人來 說，神造論者的欺騙和扭曲事實(shí)的程度可能會(huì)令這些人有一種不

快的詫 異。

29. On the dust jacket of this fine book, Stephen Jay Gould says: "This book stands for reason itself." And so it does-and all wound be well were reason the only judge in the creationism/evolution debate.

[參考譯文] 在這本杰出的書的外紙封面上，史蒂芬•杰伊•古爾德寫道： "這本書本 身就代表

理性。"而它 確實(shí)是這樣的--而且如果理性成為神造 論/地化 論之間的辯論中的惟一

評判標(biāo)準(zhǔn)的話，一切就都好辦了。

30. After six months of arguing and final 16 hours of hot parliamentary debates, Australia's Northern Territory became the first legal authority in the world to allow doctors to take the

lives of incurably ill patients who wish to die.

[參考譯文] 經(jīng)過了六個(gè)月的爭論以及最后16個(gè)小時(shí)激烈的議會(huì)辯論，澳大利 亞北 部地區(qū)成了世界

上第一個(gè)允許醫(yī)生終止希望死去的絕癥病人生命的立 法 當(dāng)局。

31. Some have breathed sighs of relief, others, including churches, right-to-life groups and the Australian Medical Association, bitterly attacked the bill and the haste of its passage. But the

tide is unlikely to turn back.

[參考譯文] 一些機(jī)構(gòu)終于松了一口氣，但是其他一些機(jī)構(gòu)，包括教堂，倡導(dǎo) 生命之 權(quán)的團(tuán)體和澳大利

亞醫(yī) 學(xué)協(xié)會(huì)，尖銳地抨擊這個(gè)法案，指責(zé)法案的通 過 過于匆忙。但是大勢已定，不可逆轉(zhuǎn)。

32. In Australia- where an aging population, life-extending technology and changing community attitudes have all played their partother states are going to consider making a similar law to deal

with euthanasia.

[參考譯文] 在澳大利亞--人口老齡化，延長壽命的技術(shù)和變化看的社會(huì)態(tài)度， 這 些因素都在發(fā)揮作用

一一其他的州也會(huì)考慮制定相似的關(guān)于安樂死的法律。

33. There are, of course, exceptions. Small--minded officials, rude waiters, and ill mannered taxi drivers are hardly unknown in the US. Yet it is an observation made so frequently that it deserves

comment.

[參考譯文] 當(dāng)然，例外是存在的。在美國，心胸狹窄的官員，粗魯?shù)膫髡撸?和沒有 禮貌的出租車司機(jī)

也 并不少見。然而人們常常得出這樣的觀察意見， 這 使得它值得被討論一下。

長難句結(jié)構(gòu)分析最新經(jīng)典一百句 (二)

34. We live in a society in which the medicinal and social use of substances (drugs) is

pervasive: an aspirin to quiet a headache, some wine to be sociable, coffee to get going

in the morning, a cigarette for the nerves.

[參考譯文] 我們生活在一種藥品(毒品)的醫(yī)學(xué)用途和社會(huì)用途都很廣泛的社會(huì)里： 一片用來止頭

痛的阿斯匹林，一些用來社交的葡萄酒，早上自己提提神 所喝的咖啡，一支用來定神的香煙。

35. Dependence is marked first by an increased tolerance, with more and more of the

substance required to produce the desired effect, and then by the appearance of unpleasant

withdrawal symptoms when the substance is discontinued.

[參考譯文] 對藥品的依賴性首先表現(xiàn)為不斷增長的耐藥量，要產(chǎn)生想得到的效果所 需要的藥品劑

量越來越大，然后表現(xiàn)為當(dāng)停止用藥后，令人不快的停藥 癥狀的出現(xiàn)。

36. "Is this what you intended to accomplish with your careers?" Senator Robert Dole asked

Time Warner executives last week. "You have sold your souls, but must you corrupt our nation

and threaten our children as well?"

[參考譯文] 上星期參議員羅博特多爾質(zhì)問時(shí)代華納公司的高級管理人員們："難道這 就是你們希

望能夠成就的事業(yè)?你們已經(jīng)出賣了自己的靈魂，但是難道 你們還非要腐化我們的國家，威脅我

們的孩子們嗎?"

37. "The test of any democratic society, he wrote in a Wall Street Journal column', "lies not in

how well it can control expression but in whether it gives freedom of thought and expression

the widest possible latitude, however disputable or irritating the results may sometimes be..."

[參考譯文] "對任何一個(gè)民主社會(huì)的考驗(yàn)，"他在《華爾街雜志》的一個(gè)專欄文章中 寫到，"不在

于它能夠多有效地控制各種意見的表達(dá)，而在于這個(gè)社會(huì)是 否能給予思考和表達(dá)的盡可能廣泛

的自由，不管有時(shí)候這種結(jié)果是多么 的富有爭議或令人不快…"

38. During the discussion of rock singing verses at last month's stockholders' meeting, Levin

asserted that "music is not the cause of society's ills" and even cited his son, a teacher in the

Bronx, New York, who uses rap to communicate with students.

[參考譯文] 在-上個(gè)月的股東大會(huì)上關(guān)于搖滾歌詞的討論中，萊文宣稱說："音樂不是 社會(huì)問題的

原因"，他甚至還以他的兒子為例。他的兒子是紐約州布朗克 斯的一個(gè)教師，并用說唱音樂與學(xué)

生們進(jìn)行溝通。

39. Much of the language used to describe monetary policy, such as "steering the economy

to a soft landing" of "a touch on the brakes" , makes it sound like a precise science. Nothing

could be further from the truth.

[參考譯文] 有很多用于描述貨幣政策的詞匯，例如"輕踩剎車"以"操縱經(jīng)濟(jì)軟著 陸"，使貨幣政策

聽起來像是一門精確的科學(xué)。沒有什么比這更遠(yuǎn)離實(shí)際 情況的了。

40. Economists have been particularly surprised by favorable inflation figures in Britain and

the United States, since, conventional measures suggest that both economies, and

especially America's, have little productive slack.

[參考譯文] 經(jīng)濟(jì)學(xué)家們對英國和美國的有利的通貨膨脹數(shù)據(jù)尤其感到驚訝，因?yàn)閭?統(tǒng)的計(jì)量方法顯示兩國的經(jīng)濟(jì)，特別是美國的經(jīng)濟(jì)，幾乎沒有生產(chǎn)蕭條的時(shí)候。