雅思长难句精讲分析
雅思长难句精讲分析
雅思长难句精解
例句1
结构分析:
主句:Ogilvie and her team have been building the vast database of material possessions.
修饰1:of material possessions - 介短状语,修饰主句,表内容。
修饰2:on the people who lived in these two German communities - 介短状语,修饰building,表地点。
修饰3:who lived in these two German communities - 定从,修饰people。
结构总结:主句 + 介短状语 + 介短状语 + 定从。
译文分析:
Ogilvie 和她的团队一直在构建一个庞大的物质财产数据库,这是基于对这两个德国社区居民的全面人口重建。
重点词汇:
vast: 巨大的
database: 数据库
material: 物质的
possessions: 财产
demographic reconstruction: 人口重建
例句2
结构分析:
主句:a huge database has been compiled by a team.
修饰1:over the last decade - 介短状语,修饰主句,表时间。
修饰2:about the lives of southwest German villagers between 1600 and 1900 - 介短定语,修饰database。
修饰3:led by Professor Sheilagh Ogilvie at Cambridge University’s Faculty of Economics - done分词定语,修饰team。
结构总结:介短状语 + 主句 + 介短定语 + done分词定语。
译文分析:
在过去十年里,一个关于1600年至1900年间德国西南地区村民生活的巨大数据库已经被剑桥大学经济学院由Sheilagh Ogilvie教授领导的团队所编制。
重点词汇:
decade: 十年
database: 数据库
compile: 编制
例句3
结构分析:
主句:Research suggests that we focus on 'the focal features of the environment' and we reason more broadly and focus more on interpersonal and moral ideals such as justice and impartiality.
修饰1:when adopting a first-person viewpoint - when状从,修饰主句,表条件。
修饰2:when adopting a third-person, 'observer' viewpoint - when状从,修饰主句,表条件。
修饰3:such as justice and impartiality - 介短定语,修饰ideals。
结构总结:主句 + 状从1 + 状从2 + 介短定语。
译文分析:
研究表明,当我们采取第一人称视角时,我们关注环境的“核心特征”,而当我们采取第三人称、观察者的视角时,我们更广泛地推理并更多地关注人际关系和道德理想,如正义和无偏见。
重点词汇:
focal: 核心的
feature: 特征
interpersonal: 人际的
moral: 道德的
ideal: 理想
justice: 正义
impartiality: 无偏见
例句4
结构分析:
主句:The archaeologist Jean-Philippe Lauer believes they were originally stored and then given a 'proper burial' by Djoser in his pyramid to honor his predecessors.
修饰1:who excavated most of the pyramid and complex - who定从,修饰Lauer。
修饰2:in the pyramid - in介短状语,修饰and后主句,表地点。
修饰3:to honor his predecessors - to do状语,修饰and后主句,表目的。
结构总结:主句 + 定从 + 介短状语 + to do状语。
译文分析:
考古学家Jean-Philippe Lauer认为,金字塔和建筑群中的船只是最初被储存起来,然后由Djoser在金字塔中给予“适当的埋葬”,以纪念他的祖先。
重点词汇:
excavate: 挖掘
archaeologist: 考古学家
pyramid: 金字塔
complex: 建筑群
例句5
结构分析:
主句:a team of archaeologists surveyed patches of ice in Oppland.
修饰1:over a nine-year period - 介短状语,修饰主句,表时间。
修饰2:which included Lars Pilo of Oppland County Council, Norway, and James Barrett of the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research - which定从,修饰archaeologists。