考研英语长难句讲解 第191期

 　　21. That matters because theory suggests that the maximum sustainable yield that can be cropped from a fishery comes when the biomass of a target species is about 50% of its original levels.

　　【分析】多重复合句。句子主干为That matters。because引导原因状语从句，其中又包含that引导的从句作suggests的宾语。宾语从句主干为the maximum sustainable yield…comes…，其中又嵌套that引导的定语从句修饰主语yield,另外还包含when引导的时间状语从句。

　　【译文】这一点很重要，因为理论认为当目标物种的生物量达到原始基数的50%左右时，从渔场中才能够获得最大的可持续产量。

　　【点拨】crop作名词时，意为“庄稼；收成，产量;一群，一批”。作动词时，意为“收获，获得；剪短”，此外,还有短语crop up“出现或发生（尤指意外地)”。

　　22. But somewhere from the 19th century onward¹, more artists began seeing happiness as insipid², phony or, worst of all, boring as we went from Wordsworth's da f fodils to Baudelaire's flowers of evil.

　　【分析】复合句。句子主干为more artists began seeing happiness as…，其中使用了 see…as结构。句首短语 somewhere from the 19th century onward 作时间状语； as we went from...to...为时间状语从句。

　　【译文】但到了19世纪的某个时期，更多的艺术家开始将快乐视为索然无味、矫揉造作——甚至更糟的是——令人厌倦的东西。从华兹华斯的《水仙花》到波德莱尔的《恶之花》就可以表明这一变化。

　　【点拨】l）insipid “枯燥乏味的”。2)phony“虚伪的，虚假的”。

1 onward   

adj.向前的，前进的；adv.向前，前进，在先

参考例句：

• The Yellow River surges onward like ten thousand horses galloping.黄河以万马奔腾之势滚滚向前。
• He followed in the steps of forerunners and marched onward.他跟随着先辈的足迹前进。

2 insipid   

adj.无味的，枯燥乏味的，单调的

参考例句：

• The food was rather insipid and needed gingering up.这食物缺少味道，需要加点作料。
• She said she was a good cook,but the food she cooked is insipid.她说她是个好厨师，但她做的食物却是无味道的。