GRE閱讀：難句解析

1. other theorists propose that the moon was ripped out of the earths rockymantle by the earths collision with another large celestial body after much of the earths iron fell to itscore. (4)

其他的理論家提出,在地球的大部分鐵沉入到地核之后,由于地球與另一個龐大的天體發(fā)生碰撞,月亮便從地球那石質(zhì)的地幔中撕裂開來而形成的。rip:撕開;撥去;在本文是撕開的意思。

難句類型：復(fù)雜修飾

解釋：這個句子雖然還算短,但結(jié)構(gòu)并不簡單,句中共有三介詞結(jié)構(gòu)作狀語。結(jié)構(gòu)的復(fù)雜在本句中給讀者帶來了真正的閱讀困難：月亮、地球、大型天體之間的關(guān)系如 何?三個事件之間的先后順序怎樣?另外的一個難點在于,在the moon was ripped out of the earths rocky mantle這段話中,be ripped out of something可以作兩種解釋。rip既有撕開的意思,又有剝?nèi)サ囊馑?而此處的be ripped out of something很被讀者理解成被剝奪走某物的意思。實際上,根據(jù)對上下文的理解,這里應(yīng)該理解成從某物中撕裂出來的意思。

意群訓(xùn)練：other theorists propose that the moon was ripped out of the earths rockymantle by the earths collision with another large celestial body after much of the earths iron fell to itscore.

2. however, recent scholarship has strongly suggested that those aspects of early new england culture that seem to have been most distinctly puritan, such as the strong religious orientation and the communal impulse, were not even typical of new england as a whole, but were largely confined to the two colonies of massachusetts and connecticut. (4)

然而,進來的學(xué)術(shù)研究強烈的顯示那些看來最為明確的請教徒的早期新英格蘭文化的一些方面,比如強烈的宗教導(dǎo)向和團體意識,就整體而言卻不是新英格蘭的典型特征,而是在很大程度上只局限與馬薩諸賽和康涅狄格兩個州。

難句類型：復(fù)雜修飾、插入語

解釋：賓語從句的主語those aspects后面跟著長長的修飾成分of early new england culture that seem to have been most distinctly puritan。不但如此,主語和表語之間又被長長的插入語such as分開,而且表語也不是一個,而是were not,but were的結(jié)構(gòu),使得句子十分難讀。

意群訓(xùn)練：however, recent scholarship has strongly suggested that those aspects of early new england culture that seem to have been most distinctly puritan, such as the strong religious orientation and the communal impulse, were not even typical of new england as a whole, but were largely confined to the two colonies of massachusetts and connecticut.

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