2017年-2023年高考英语阅读真题长难句解析(431-432)讲义-2024届高三英语一轮复习

1、 长难句翻译 1. Knowing that the industrious ant lives in a highly organized society does nothing to prevent us from being filled with revulsion when we find hordes of them crawling over a carefully prepared picnic lunch. 2. What is rather more significant is the finding that the dopamine neurons in the caudate -- a region of the brain involved in learning stimulus-response associations, and in anticipating food and other 'reward' stimuli -- were at their most active around 15 seconds before the participants' favourite moments in the music 2、 长难句翻译解析 1. Knowing that the industrious ant lives in a highly organized society does nothing to prevent us from being filled with revulsion when we find hordes of them crawling over a carefully prepared picnic lunch. 【语法详析】 本句的主干为 Knowing… does nothing to prevent us from…。1. that the industrious ant lives in a highly organized society 作knowing的宾语从句；2. when we find hordes of them crawling over a carefully prepared picnic lunch 为时间状语从句。 【词汇精讲】 industrious /ɪnˈdʌs.tri.əs/ adj. 勤劳的【名】industry 工业，行业；勤奋【辨】industrial 工业的，行业的 revulsion /rɪˈvʌl.ʃən/ n. 憎恶，反感【动】revolt 反抗，使厌恶 re(再)+volt(伏特)→反复被电击→起义、反抗。 horde /hɔːd/ n. （人）群 源自于horse crawl /krɔːl/ v. 爬行，讨好 “可绕”→爬行可以绕过去 instinct /ˈɪn.stɪŋkt/ n. 本能，直觉【形】instinctive 【辨】intuition 直觉，distinct 明显的，不同的，extinct 灭绝的 In 向内 + stinct 刺;刺激 → 内在的刺激 → 本能 She’s extremely competent and industrious. 她非常勤奋、能干。 I turned away in revulsion when they showed a close-up of the operation. 当他们播放动手术的特写镜头时，我感到恶心马上转过身去。 Hordes of students on bikes made crossing the road difficult. 一群群学生骑着自行车鱼贯而行，弄得别人过马路都很困难。 He crawled to the group leader because he wanted a promotion. 因为想得到提升，他对集团领导阿谀奉承。 It is instinct that tells the birds when to begin their migration. 是本能让鸟类知道何时开始迁徙。 【参考译文】 当我们看到大群蚂蚁在我们精心准备的野餐午饭上爬行时，知道勤劳的蚂蚁生活在一个高度组织化的社会也无法抑制我们的憎恶。 2. What is rather more significant is the finding that the dopamine neurons in the caudate -- a region of the brain involved in learning stimulus-response associations, and