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1、 长难句翻译
75. We tend to think of the decades immediately following World War II as a time of prosperity and growth with soldiers returning home by the millions, going off to college on the G. I. Bill and lining up at the marriage bureaus.
76.A grounding breaking theory of ageing that explains why people can suddenly become frail after reaching their 70s has raised the prospect of new therapies for the decline and diseases of old age.
2、 长难句翻译解析
75.We tend to think of the decades immediately following World War II as a time of prosperity and growth with soldiers returning home by the millions, going off to college on the G. I. Bill and lining up at the marriage bureaus.
01断句
该句的信号词有:
①非谓语动词following ②介词as ③介词with ④介词短语by the millions ⑤标点符号逗号⑥介词短语on the... ⑦连接词and ⑧介词短语at the...
所以断句完成后如下:
We tend to think of the decades immediately / following World War II / as a time of prosperity and growth / with soldiers returning home / by the millions, / going off to college / on the G. I. Bill / and lining up / at the marriage bureaus.
02找主谓,定主从
全句只有一个最主要的主谓结构:we tend
根据信号词可以划分全句结构,标记如下:
We tend to think of the decades immediately / following World War II / as a time of prosperity and growth / with soldiers returning home / by the millions, / going off to college / on the G. I. Bill / and lining up / at the marriage bureaus.
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分析主句和从句
本句的主干是:We tend to think of the decades ...as a time....
①正如我们上次长难句讲到过,在寻找长难句的主干时,要去除所有的修饰部分,快速找到句子的主语和谓语部分。这句话的主语是We, 谓语是tend。中间穿插了一些短语和重要单词:
tend to do sth 易于做某事,往往会发生某事
eg:People tend to need less sleep as they get older. 随着年龄增长,人对睡眠的需求通常会减少。
think of sth as... 把某物当做是,认作是....
eg: The readings you should think of as complementary to my lectures.
因为你应该把那些书当做是我讲座的补充。
decade: n. a period of 10 years. 十年;十年期
所以decades这里是复数,表示几十年。
②这里immediately following World War II中的following是非谓语动词,这部分作后置定语,是对前面decades的补充修饰,意思是“二战结束后的几十年”。
③这里的as...我们上面已经说是与think相关的词组了,后面接的是一个名词短语,“a time of prosperity and growth”意思是:一个繁荣与增长的时代。
prosperity: n. 兴隆,发达,繁荣,昌盛