内容正文:
1、 长难句翻译
1. I even went out at midnight with a torch and noted with satisfaction (and surprise) that the ants were still swarming around the sticky tape without being able to do anything about it.
2.These environments can lead to new solutions that, under conventionally structured environments (filled with bottlenecks in terms of information flow, power structures, rules,and routines) would never be reached.
2、 长难句翻译解析
1. I even went out at midnight with a torch and noted with satisfaction (and surprise) that the ants were still swarming around the sticky tape without being able to do anything about it.
【语法详析】
本句的主干为 I even went out at midnight with a torch and noted…。1. that the ants were still swarming around the sticky tape… 作 noted 的宾语从句;2. without being able to do anything about it 作方式状语。
【词汇精讲】
swarm /swɔːm/ n. 一大群 v. 蜂拥【辨】warm 温暖,worm 虫子
“是warrn”→一大群人挤在一起是温暖。
sticky /ˈstɪk.i/ adj. 黏性的 【动】stick 粘,黏【俚】have sticky fingers 好偷东西
stick(粘住) + y(形容词后缀.
A swarm of photographers followed the star’s car. 成群结队的记者跟在这位电影明星的车后。
During the summer, tourists swarm the little beachside town. 游客在夏季纷纷涌向这个海滨小镇。
The last person we hired as a cashier turned out to have sticky fingers. 我们店里上次雇的那个人手脚不干净。
【参考译文】
我甚至半夜拿着手电筒出去,很满意(也很惊讶)地发现蚂蚁还在围着胶带团团转,一点办法也没有。
2.These environments can lead to new solutions that, under conventionally structured environments (filled with bottlenecks in terms of information flow, power structures, rules,and routines) would never be reached.
1) 结构分析
层次一:
主句: These environments can lead to new solutions.
从句: that...... reached【that引导定从(判定依据:从句不完整),修饰solutions】
层次二:
从句内部:
主体:would never reached
修饰1:under....environments (介短做状语,修饰整个从句主体)
修饰2:(filled.......routines)(括号,解释说明environments)
结构总结: 主句+定从【嵌套介短+括号解释】
2) 译文分析:红体字代表主干,括号代表宾从修饰
这些环境能够导致(信息交流、权力结构、规则惯例等方面都充满了瓶颈的)(传统环境永远无法实现的)新解决方法
3) 重点词汇:
conventionally : adv. 传统地
People still wore their hair short and dressed conventionally.
人们还留着短发、穿着传统服饰。
solution:n. 解决方法
Attempts to find a solutio