解析GRE閱讀：長句、難句

thus,what in contrast to the puritan colonies appears to davis to be peculiarly southern— acquisitiveness,a strong interest in politics and the law,anda tendency to cultivate metropolitancultural models—was not only more typically english than the culturalpatterns exhibited by puritan massachusetts and connecticut,but also almost certainly characteristicof most other early modern britishcolonies from barbados north to rhodeisland and new hampshire. (4)

因此,那些與(北方)清教殖民地形成鮮明對比、并在戴維斯教授的心目中顯得具有 特殊南方色彩的特征——占有欲、對政治和法律的濃厚興趣、以及培養(yǎng)大都市文化模式的傾向——不僅僅要比清教的馬薩諸塞州和康乃涅克州所展現(xiàn)出來的文化模式 更具有典型的英國色彩,并且?guī)缀鹾翢o疑問地構(gòu)成了絕大多數(shù)其它早期近代英國殖民地的特征,從巴巴多斯北至羅得島和新罕布什爾州。

難句類型：復(fù)雜修飾、插入語

解釋：這個(gè)頗長的句子是由一個(gè)what從句做主語,此主語what in contrast to the puritan colonies appears to davins to be peculialy southern中有又一些插入語的修飾成分,其實(shí)主干很簡單,就是what appears to be southern.southern后的兩個(gè)破折號之間的內(nèi)容是主語的同位語,實(shí)際起到了一個(gè)插入語的作用。一直到句子寫了五行之后,謂語動詞was才姍 然出現(xiàn),難怪讀者看得不舒服。but also之后,省略了與前面一樣的was.

筆者 在此再次提醒讀者,筆者之所以對此類句子做語法分析,是為了讓讀者熟悉這些語法結(jié)構(gòu),而不是希望讀者在現(xiàn)場閱讀進(jìn)也去分析其語法,正確的方法是通過熟讀本 書中的種種難句,使大腦習(xí)慣這些語言結(jié)構(gòu);實(shí)戰(zhàn)的現(xiàn)場閱讀把注意力集中在句子的意思上,比如這句話,只要讀出與d的觀念相反,南方的州與清教的殖民地一 樣,都是有著英國風(fēng)格的意思即可。

意群訓(xùn)練：thus,what in contrast to the puritan colonies appears to davis to be peculiarly southern— acquisitiveness,a strong interest in politics and the law,anda tendency to cultivate metropolitancultural models—was not only more typically english than the culturalpatterns exhibited by puritan massachusetts and connecticut,but also almost certainly characteristicof most other early modern britishcolonies from barbados north to rhodeisland and new hampshire.