考研英语长难句讲解 第148期(在线收听

   23.While few craftsmen or farmers, let alone dependents and servants, left literary compositions to be analyzed it is obvious that their views were less fully intellectualized.

  【分析】复合句。句子主干是it is obvious that…。it为形式主语,真正的主语是that引导的从句。While引导让步状语从句,其中包含短语let alone作插入语。let alone是隐含否定意义的连词短语,它强调由于前者不可能或不真实,因此后者也不真实或不可能。
  【译文】虽然少数工匠和农民,留下了可供分析的文学作品,但很明显他们的观点是缺乏智慧的——更不用提侍从和仆人了。
  【点拨】 l) let alone意为“更别提,更不用说”。2) dependent常作形容词,与on/upon搭配,意思是“依靠的,依赖的;取决于…的”,本句中用作名词,指“扈从,侍从”。3) 本句中leave后接动词不定式作宾补。
  【临摹】这个村庄的卫生设施不尽如人意。
  24. Sexual confusion, economic frustrations, and religious hope — all came together in a decisive moment when he opened the Bible, told his father that the first line he saw would settle his fate, and read the magical words: “Come out from among them, touch no unclean thing, and I will be your God and you shall be my people."
  【分析】多重复合句。主句的主语由三个并列的名词短语 sexual confusion, economic frustrations 和 religious hope构成,主句谓语是came together。when引导的定语从句修饰先行词moment,该从句的谓语由三个并列的动词短语opened the Bible, told his father和 read the magical words构成,其中that引导的宾语从句作动词told的宾语。引号内的句子是words的同位语。
  【译文】他打开《圣经》,告诉父亲他读到的第一行字将决定他的命运,接着读到了以下神奇的文字:“从他们中间走出来,不要沾不洁净的物,我将成为你们的神,你将是我的子民。”在这决定性的时刻,他的性困感、经济困难以及宗教期待——所有的一切都交织在一起。
  【点拨】settle常用意为“安顿,定居;解决(问题等)”,本句中意思是“确定,决定”,settle one's fate即为“决定某人的命运"。
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