【赚考元专用贴—英语长难句】

写下一句英语长难句，并翻译，奖励5考元。每人每天限5次回帖，允许复制粘贴。

Before 1066, in the land we now call Great Britain lived peoples belonging to two major language groups. （NMET2001. D篇）


1066年以前，在我们现在称为英国的土地上，住着属于两个主要语种的民族。


简析：倒装句，并含有定语从句及分词短语。

If this state of affairs had lasted, English today would be close to German.（NMET2001. D篇）


如果这种情况延续下去的话，那么今天的英语将和德语很相近。


简析：含虚拟语气

We even have different word for some foods, meat in particular, depending on whether it is still out in the fields or at home ready to be cooked, which Shows the fact that the Saxon peasants were doing the farming. while the upper-class Normans were doing most of the eating. （NMET2001. D篇）


我们甚至对某些食物有不同的单词，特别是肉类，取决于它是长在田野里，还是在


家里准备煮着吃，这就表明一个事实，即萨克森农民在农田干活，而上层阶级的诺曼人在大吃大喝。


   简析：含对比。

When Americans visit Europe for the first time, they usually find Germany more “Foreign” than France because the German they see on signs and ads seems much more different from English than French does. （NMET2001. D篇）

当美国人第一次游览欧洲时，他们通常发现德国比法国对他们来说更加“陌生”，因为他们在标牌和广告上看到的德语，比起法语更加不同于英语。

简析： 含比较级句型结构。

Some companies have made the manufacturing of clean and safe products their main selling point and emphasize it in their advertising. （NMET2001. C篇）

一些公司已经把洁净安全产品的生产当作他们主要的销售关键，并且在他们的广告宣传中强调这一点。

简析：make后接双宾语。

After their stay, all visitors receive a survival certificate recording their success, that is, when guests leave the igloo hotel they will receive a paper stating that they have had a taste of adventure. （NMET2001. B 篇）


在他们逗留之后，所有的游客都会收到一份生存证明记录他们的成功，也就是说当游客离开小冰屋旅馆时，他们会得到一份证明，表明他们曾尝试过冒险。


    简析：含两个分词短语，关键词state表明。

The major market force rests in the growing population of white-collar employees, who can afford the new service, in other words, Shanghai’s car rental industry is growing so fast mainly due to the increasing number of white-collar employees.（NMET2001. A篇）



主要的市场因素取决于白领工人的人数增加，这些人付得起这种新型服务，换句话说，



上海的汽车出租行业发展如此快，主要因为白领工人人数的增加。



简析：关键词rest in 依赖。

　But now it is realized that supplies of some of them are limited, and it is even possible to give a reasonable estimate of their “expectation of life”， the time it will take to exhaust all known sources and reserves of these materials。

　可是现在人们意识到，其中有些矿物质的蕴藏量是有限的，人们甚至还可以比较合理的估计出这些矿物质“可望存在多少年”，也就是说，经过若干年后，这些矿物的全部已知矿源和储量将消耗殆尽。

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　It therefore becomes more and more important that, if students are not to waste their opportunities, there will have to be much more detailed information about courses and more advice。

　因此，如果要使学生充分利用他们(上大学)的机会，就得为他们提供大量关于课程的更为详尽的信息，作更多的指导。这个问题显得越来越重要了。