长难句在托福阅读考试中的出现是不可避免的,考生的长难句分析能力差不仅会影响阅读速度和阅读准确性,而且还会影响某些题型的正确率,因为在托福阅读十大题型当中,句子简化题、事实信息题和推理题这几种题型都直接或间接地在考察学生分析长难句的能力。在面对长难句时,考生一定不能只见单词,不见结构,句子主干部分永远比修饰部分要重要。下面就通过一些例子教考生一些分析长难句的技巧,供考生参考。
31、It is a lifelong process,a process that starts long before the start of school and one that should be an integral part of one's entire life.
(并列同位语a process that…,and one that…)
【译句】教育是一个终生的过程,早在人们上学之前就开始了。它应成为人的一生中不可缺少的一部分。
分句1:It is a lifelong process,
分句2:a process that starts long before the start of school;
分句3:and one that should be an integral part of one's entire life。
分句1是整个长句子的形式主句
分句2是分句1的同位语,是对1的进一步解释说明
分句3是2的并列句,同为对1的解释说明
32、Life's transition from the sea to the land was perhaps as much of an evolutionary challenge as was the genesis of life.
(特殊结构as much…as;倒装as was the genesis of life)
【译句】生命从海洋到陆地的过渡可能是一个像生命起源那样的进化挑战。
分句1:Life's transition from the sea to the land was perhaps as much of an evolutionary challenge
分句2:as was the genesis of life
分句1是整个长句子的主句,虽然这一部分很长,但主谓宾只有一套,而且顺序是正常的分句2是倒装句,按正当语序相当于“the genesis of life was as……(省略)”
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