内容正文:
1、 长难句翻译
1. The last few years have seen environmental disasters on a grand scale, and experts are predicting far worse to come.
2.That might mean either developing a uniform way to mark videos and images, showing when and who they were made by, or abandoning phone calls altogether and moving towards data-based communications – using apps like Face Time or Whats App, which can be tied to your identity.
2、 长难句翻译解析
1. The last few years have seen environmental disasters on a grand scale, and experts are predicting far worse to come.
A.内容解析
①句式分析
本句是由并列连词and连接的复合句,第一个分句运用了现在完成时。
②词语点拨
on a grand scale大规模地,大张旗鼓地
We should popularize science on a grand scale.
我们应该大规模普及科学。
③语法点拨
现在完成时的构成:has/have done,常表示“某一动作或状态发生在过去,对现在有影响”,也可表示“持续到现在的动作或状态”。常用的时间状语:for或since引导的时间状语及before, until now, up till now, so far, up to the moment, in the last few years等。如:
We have booked a room for today and tomorrow.
我们已经预订了今天和明天的房间。
The house has been empty for ages.
这幢房子已经空了相当长时间了。(现在仍空着)
B.句式翻译
最近的几年里,人们见证了大规模的环境灾难,专家们预测更为严重的灾难即将发生。
2. That might mean either developing a uniform way to mark videos and images, showing when and who they were made by, or abandoning phone calls altogether and moving towards data-based communications – using apps like Face Time or Whats App, which can be tied to your identity.
①内容分析
今天的句子很长。在阅读里遇到这种长句子,有两种操作方法。
方法一:分析句子结构,找出内容重点
每个人都要能看出来,这个句子的核心结构是:
That might mean either ……, or ……
那意味着要不然……,要不然……
所以在句子里涉及两种选择,这是“either……or……”结构最根本的理解。两种选择是什么呢?
选择一
developing a uniform way to mark videos and images,
开发一种统一的方式去标记视频和图像
showing when and who they were made by,
展示它们是什么时候由谁拍的
选择二
abandoning phone calls altogether
完全抛弃电话
and moving towards data-based communications
转向基于数据的通讯
你会发现这个句子的格式还挺工整的,在either和or后面各有两个“doing sth”的动词短语。如果说重要信息,这四个动作就是整个句子最核心的内容。“要不然这么做,要不然那么做”,作者其实是在给出建议。
最后还有一个破折号的部分,对前面的内容进行解释,所以如果你不理解什么叫“转向基于数据的通讯”,作者就在帮助你理解:
moving towards data-based communications
= using apps like Face Time or Whats App, which can be tied to your identity.
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