内容正文:
1、 长难句翻译
1. While you are on the phone, the baby pulls the tablecloth off the table, smashing half your best crockery and cutting himself in the process.
2. As if this were not enough to reduce you to tears, your husband arrives, unexpectedly bringing three guests to dinner.
2、 长难句翻译解析
1. While you are on the phone, the baby pulls the tablecloth off the table, smashing half your best crockery and cutting himself in the process.
【语法详析】
本句的主干为 the baby pulls the tablecloth off the table。1. While you are on the phone 为时间状语从句;2. smashing half your best crockery and cutting himself in the process 作伴随状语,因smash和cut与其逻辑主语the baby存在主动关系,故用doing。
【词汇精讲】
tablecloth /ˈteɪblklɒθ/ n. 桌布,台布
smash /smæʃ/ v. 打碎,猛烈撞击 n. 打碎,撞车
crockery /ˈkrɒkəri/ n. 陶器,餐具【辨】china 瓷器,crocodile 鳄鱼
I can’t seem to wash out that ink that got onto the tablecloth. 看起来,我洗不掉洒在台布上的墨水。
The car smashed into a tree. 汽车猛地撞到了树上。
We had no fridge, cooker, cutlery or crockery. 我们没有冰箱、炊具、刀具或餐具。
【参考译文】
当你接电话时,小孩把台布从桌子上扯了下来,把你一半最好的陶器摔了个粉碎,同时割伤了他自己。
2. As if this were not enough to reduce you to tears, your husband arrives, unexpectedly bringing three guests to dinner.
【语法详析】
本句的主干为 your husband arrives。1. As if this were not enough to reduce you to tears 为方式状语从句,谓语动词were使用了虚拟语气;2. unexpectedly bringing three guests to dinner 作伴随状语,因bring与其逻辑主语your husband存在主动关系,故用doing。
【词汇精讲】
as if = as though 好像 【辨】even if = even though 尽管
reduce you to tears 让你流泪
unexpectedly /ˌʌnɪksˈpɛktɪdli/ adv. 出乎意料地
Why must you do everything as if you have to win? 你为什么做每件事情都跟你非要赢似的?
The Indians came out unexpectedly, catching the soldiers off-guard. 印第安人突如其来地出现,令士兵们猝不及防。
【参考译文】
好像这一切还不足以让你痛哭流涕,你丈夫回来了,出乎意料地带了三个客人来吃饭。
3、 长难句拓展
1.That is what a study, published from the University of California and Yale University in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, has concluded.
①小词典
proceeding [prəˈsiːdɪŋ]
n. 进行;程序;诉讼;事项
proceed [prəˈsiːd]
v. 开始行动,开展;继续做(或从事、进行);(完成其他事后)继续做某事;<正式>行进,前往;起诉某人;来自,出自
n.(某个事件或活动的)