内容正文:
长难句理解技巧
巩固练习
一、长难句翻译
1. But it is useful to bear in mind that all such changes come from the technology and not some imagined desire by parents to keep their children under their wings.
2. And if you want to improve your chances of having a creative idea while you’re daydreaming, try to do it while you are involved in another task—preferably something simple, like taking a shower or walking, or even making meaningless drawings.
3. If humans were truly at home under the light of the moon and stars, we would go in darkness happily, the midnight world as visible to us as it is to the vast number of nocturnal(夜间活动的) species on this planet.
4. The benefits of this kind of engineering come with consequences — called light pollution —whose effects scientists are only now beginning to study.
5. Ⅲ-designed lighting washes out the darkness of night and completely changes the light levels—and light rhythms — to which many forms of life, including ourselves, have adapted.
6. We've grown so used to this orange haze that the original glory of an unlit night — dark enough for the planet Venus to throw shadows on Earth— is wholly beyond our experience, beyond memory almost.
7. She’d look at me with those sad brown eyes of hers, beam her need, and then wait, trusting I would understand — which, strangely, I almost always did。
8. In no time, she became my fifth appendage (附肢), snoring on my home-office couch as I worked, cradling against feet as I read, and splaying across my stomach as I watched television.
9. At the beginning, when friends offered to take her through her paces, I declined because I knew they had their own households to deal with.
10. As I watch her chase after a squirrel, throwing her whole being into the here-and-now of an exercise that has never once ended in victory, she reminds me, too, that no matter how harsh the present or unpredictable the future, there's almost always some measure of joy to be extracted from the moment.
二、完形填空
One day I came home from