考研英语长难句讲解第3期

 5. Constitutional law is political because it results from choices rooted in fundamental social concepts like liberty and property.

【分析】复合句。主句为 Constitutional law is political。because 引导原因状语从句；其中分词短语 rooted in... 作定语修饰 choices, 介词短语 like liberty and property 修饰 concepts。

【译文】宪法是由植根于自由和所有权等基本社会观念的选择造成的，因此它是政治性的。

【临摹】意识形态总是植根于不断变化的权力结构与权力斗争中。

6.When the court deals with social policy decisions, the law it shapes is inescapably political—which is why decisions split along ideological¹ lines are so easily dismissed as unjust.

【分析】多重复合句。主句为 the law...is inescapably political。when 引导时间状语从句；it shapes 为省略引导词的定语从句，修饰 the law, it 指代 the court; which 引导非限定性定语从句，修饰主句，其中包含 why 引导的表语从句。

【译文】当法院处理社会决策时，它适用的法律不可避免地具有政治性——这也就是为什么不同意识形态的决策容易被认为是不公正的而不予考虑。

1 ideological   

a.意识形态的

参考例句：

• He always tries to link his study with his ideological problems. 他总是把学习和自己的思想问题联系起来。
• He helped me enormously with advice on how to do ideological work. 他告诉我怎样做思想工作，对我有很大帮助。