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2021年新高考高中英语外刊《经济学人》尖子生讲义[B06]
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(适合学有余力的学霸或英语爱好者、教师使用)
(含词汇讲解、长难句解析、翻译技巧、背景知识、写作积累:均由阿满编写)
原文(续[B05])
Workers in rich countries earn more than those in poor countries partly because they are better educated but mostly because they live in societies that have, over many years, developed institutions that foster prosperity and peace. It is very hard to transfer Canadian institutions to Cambodia, but quite straightforward for a Cambodian family to fly to Canada. The quickest way to eliminate absolute poverty would be to allow people to leave the places where it persists. Their poverty would thus become more visible to citizens of the rich world—who would see many more Liberians and Bangladeshis waiting tables and stacking shelves—but much less severe.
富裕国家的工人比贫穷国家的工人收入要高得多,部分原因是受教育程度较高,但主要还是因为他们所处的社会用许多年发展出了一套促进繁荣与和平的体制。把加拿大的体制移植到柬埔寨非常困难,但让一个柬埔寨家庭飞往加拿大却很简单。要消除绝对贫困,最快捷的办法就是让人们离开持续贫困的地方。他们的贫困会更直接地摆在富国公民的面前--后者会看到端盘子或码货的利比里亚人和孟加拉人多出好多--但其贫困程度会变低很多。
写作积累
· Workers in rich countries earn more than those in poor countries partly because they are better educated but mostly because they live in societies that have, over many years, developed institutions that foster prosperity and peace. 富裕国家的工人比贫穷国家的工人收入要高得多,部分原因是受教育程度较高,但主要还是因为他们所处的社会用许多年发展出了一套促进繁荣与和平的体制。
· The quickest way to eliminate absolute poverty would be to allow people to leave the places where it persists. 要消除绝对贫困,最快捷的办法就是让人们离开持续贫困的地方。
语法讲解:长难句解析
Their poverty would thus become more visible to citizens of the rich world—who would see many more Liberians and Bangladeshis waiting tables and stacking shelves—but much less severe.
· 提取主干:
Their poverty would thusbecome more visible but much less severe. (主语+系动词+表语1+并列连词+表语2)
· 其他成分:
①介词短语to citizens of the rich world作状语,说明visible的对象。
②两个破折号之间的部分是插入语,也是who引导的定语从句,修饰citizens of the rich world。
③两个现在分词waiting tables and stacking shelves作宾语补足语,修饰Liberians and Bangladeshis。注意此处的wait用作及物动词(表示“担任侍者”,比如wait tables即表示在餐馆当服务员)。
本句中一共出现了三个比较级结构:more visible,more Liberians and