SAT阅读长难句130句深度解析【分析+译文】【36】

2022-06-07 18:59:11

  

  1.The appreciation of traditional oral American Indian literature has been limited,hampered by poor translations and by the difficulty,even in the rare culturally sensitive and aesthetically satisfying translation,of completely conveying the original’s verse structure,tone,and syntax.(4 - )

  译文:对美国印第安人传统口头文学的欣赏,一直被质量低劣的翻译所限制和妨碍,并且即使是那种不可多得的既体现着文化敏感性,又在美学上令人满意的译作,也难以完全传递出原作的诗体结构、语调和句法。

  注:the difficulty (….) of:括号中的是插入语

  难句类型:复杂修饰、插入语

  解释:本句的插入语不好对付,一来它的长度比较长,而且修饰层次多,内容也不甚好懂,二来这个插入语正好嵌在difficulty of的中间,割裂了句意。

  意群训练:The appreciation of traditional oral American Indian literature has been limited,hampered by poor translations and by the difficulty,even in the rare culturally sensitive and aesthetically satisfying translation,of completely conveying the original’s verse structure,tone,and syntax.

  2.Mores,which embodied each culture’s ideal principles for governing every citizen,were developed in the belief that the foundation of a community lies in the cultivation of individual powers to be placed in service to the community. (4+)

  译文:“风俗习惯”,体现了每一文化制约每个公民的理想准则,它是在这种信仰中发展而来的,即一个社会的基础在于个人能力的培养,并将这些个人能力置于对社会的服务之中。

  难句类型:复杂修饰、插入语、抽象词

  解释:与前面的绝大多数句子相比,本句的结构算不上复杂。但是由于句意抽象,所以读到the cultivation of individuall powers to be placed in servicee to the comm.unity的时候容易读不懂,因为后面的这个不定式既有可能是修饰cultivation的,也有可能是修饰individual powers的。这里修饰的是后者。而且这里的individual powers to be placed in servicee to the comm.unity不应翻译成“individuall powers to serve the comm.unity”即可。此文强调这种individual power被置于一种位置、一种定位。当然这种细微的差别不一定会影响答题,但有时会对文章的理解产生影响。

  3.Only in the case of the February Revolution do we lack a useful description of participants that might characterize it in the light of what social history has taught us about the process of revolutionary mobilization. (5)

  译文:唯独在二月革命(the February Revolution)这一情形中,我们缺乏一种有用的有关参加者的描述,而这一描述则有可能按照社会历史有关革命动员过程所教给我们的内容来勾画出这场革命的性质。

  难句类型:复杂修饰、倒装、易淆指代

  解释:句首虽有一个倒装,但是这种简单结构并不能给我们的读者带来大的影响;倒是主句宾语a useful descryiption of participants之后的定语从句that might characterize it中的两个易混指代及其后的状语in the light of给我们的理解造成了巨大的困难。

  首先,that从句所修饰的不是participants,而是description。紧随其后的it指的则是前面的February Revolution。判断这两点的惟一方法就是通过句子的意思,没有任何其他途径。后面的in the light of…是按照…、根据….的意思,其英文解释为from the point of view。

  4.Anthropologists and others are on much firmer ground when they attempt to describe the cultural norms for a small homogeneous tribe or village than when they undertake the formidable task of discovering the norms that exist in a complex modern nation state composed of many disparate groups.(4)

  译文:当人类学家和其他人试图去描述一个小规模的同一性质(homogeneous)部落或村落的文化标准时,他们处在一种要坚实得多的基础上。相对而言,当他们着手从事这样一个艰巨的任务,即去揭示存在于一个复杂的、由许多彼此间毫无联系的群体所构成的现代单一民族的独立国家(nation-state)时,他们就具备一个同样坚实的基础。

  难句类型:复杂修饰

  解释:句子的结构拉得很长,主要原因是用来比较的两个when引导的状语从句都太长,句子的主干是Anthroplogists are on much firmer ground/when…/than/when…/。结果more than的结构被长长的状语从句分隔得很远。

  另外,第二个when 引导的从句中的宾语也很复杂,解释一个单词:nation-state指单一民族的国家。此单词的词义不必背下来。

  5.The Italian influence is likely, whatever Valdez immediate source: the Mexican carpas themselves are said to have originated from the theater pieces of a sixteenth-century Spanish writer inspired by encounters with Italian commedia dell’arte troupes on tour in Spain.(4+)

  译文:不管V的直接来源是什么,意大利的影响都有可能存在:墨西哥的C戏剧本身就被认为来自于16世纪的西班牙作家的戏剧作品,而那些作家的灵感来自与他们与在西班牙巡回演出的意大利cd剧团的遭遇。

  难句类型:复杂修饰

  解释:本句的冒号以后的分句中的from 引导的状语的结构又是典型的层层修饰,再加上主句的内容,整个句子的意思很难理顺。到底是什么来自于什么?

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