真 题再现:This alone demonstrates that the television business is not an easy world to survive in,a fact underlined by statistics that show that out of eighty European television networks no less than 50% took a lossinl989.(2005 年英译汉)
建议考 试前报班学习一下,北京新 东 方的考研英语强化班就很不错。
2.寻找并列连词
常见的并列连词有:and,but,yet,or,so,for,not only…but also…,neither…nor,to get her with 等等。有这些单词的句子里一般就有并列结构存在,并且很可能存在着省略现象,因此注意要推断出省略的成分。
真 题再现:They are the possessions of the autonomous(self-governing) man of traditional theory,and they are essential to practices in which a person is held responsible for his conduct and given credit for his achievements. (2002 年英译汉)
3.寻找引导词
从句就是"引导词+句子",所以,找到引导词就找到了从句,再根据引导词前的单词确定其是什么从句。
名词性从句的连接词:that,what(ever),who(ever),where,when,why,how,whether. . . or not 等。
状语从句的关系连接词:when,while,as,though,although,where,even if 等。
真 题再现:Whorf came to believe in a sort of linguistic determinism which,in its strongest form,states that language imprisons the mind, and that the grammatical patterns in a language can produce far-reaching consequences for the culture of a society. (2004 年英译汉)
4.寻找名词
一般的长句子中,名词一般作主语或宾语,其后一般都有修饰限定成分,即定语或同位语。
真 题再现:Pearson has pieced together the work of hundreds of researchers around the world to produce a unique millennium technology calendar that gives the latest dates when we call expect hundreds of key breakthroughs and discoveries to take place. (2001 年英译汉)