32.Legend has it that sometime toward the end of the Civil War(1861--1865)a government train carrying oxen traveling through the northern plains of eastern Wyoming was caught in a snowstorm and had to be abandoned.
(特殊结构Legend has it that…=There is a legend that…)
传说在内战(1861--1865)快结束的某个时候，一列载着牛群的政府的火车在穿过怀俄明州东部的北部平原时遇到了暴风雪，因此不得不被遗弃。
分句1：Legend has it that
分句2：sometime toward the end of the Civil War(1861--1865)a government train carrying oxen traveling through the northern plains of eastern Wyoming was caught in a snowstorm
分句3：and had to be abandoned
分句1是整个长句子的形式主句
分句2是分句1的具体解释，也是真正的主句。这里出现了几个分词形式，如“carrying oxen” “traveling through……”等，完全可以换成“that/which carries……”，但这里都作为修饰成分，从简分析
分句3是2的并列
1和2、3嵌套
2和3并列
版权声明：本文系网独家稿件，版权为网所有。转载须注明来源及作者，否则必将追究法律责任。
微信扫描下方二维码，第一时间知晓托福考试真题预测及解析，还有北美留学最新动态喔~(微信号：toefl120)!