精选英语长难句分析
定语从句【难句】1.He is referring to the upsurge of interest in mobile television,a nascentindustry at the intersection of telecoms and media which offers new opportunities todevice-makers, content producers and mobile-network operators.(The Economist Jan.5,2006)【结构分析】本句结构清晰,是一个复合句。句首部分He is referring to th 名词性从句【难句】1.The console can determine how the controller is moving in space and whatit is pointing at, and uses that information to control what is happening on screen.(The Economist Dec.2,2006)【结构分析】以逗号后and为切入点,得到主句部分的并列平行结构The consolecan determine, and uses that information to control, uses与can determine一起作该句的谓语。 非谓语动词【难句】1.The energy used to separate oxygen from air before burning is almostas great as that needed to filter out nitrogen afterwards, leading to a similar loss ofefficiency.(The Economist Nov.30,2006)【结构分析】本句是一个简单句,为一个主系表结构The energy is almost asgreat as that needed to filter out nitrogen afterw 分隔结构【难句】1.Adding a Bluetooth chip to a phone now costs very little-around$2,down from$20 in 2001but allows the manufacturer to increase the price of thehandset by farmore, and opens up a new market for high-margin accessories.(TheEconomist Jun.8,2006)【结构分析】本句是典型的破折号分隔。首先以连词为切入点,得到Addinga Bluetooth c 被动语态【难句】1.Car drivers can buy electro-petrol hybrids but aircraft are, for now,stuck with kerosene, because its energy-density makes it the only practical fuel tocarry around in the air.(The Economist Jun.8,2006)【结构分析】以连词but为切入点,本句包含两个并列分句。其中第二个并列分句aircraft are, for now, stuck with kerosene, because 状语从句【难句】1.The engines would have variable nozzles, which would be fullyopened on take-off and landing, so that the exhaust would be slow and relatively quiet,and narrowed when the aircraft was cruising, providing the necessary speed.(TheEconomist Nov.9,2006)【结构分析】本句是主从复合句。主句为The engines would have variablenozzles。 比较结构【难句】1.Keep in mind, though, it's much more important to be able to showyour manager how you contributed to the company's results(such as incrementalrevenue or reduced cost)than just a difference in pay between you and someone else.(Business Week Feb.5,2007)【结构分析】本句使用了morethan的比较结构。以副词though所充当的分词结构切入,本句为祈使句, keep后的宾语由省略了that的名词性从句充当。 倒装语序【难句】1.Not only does a green thing look different from a red thing, remind usof other green things and inspire us to say,“Thats green”, but it also actually looksgreen:it produces an experience of sheer greenness that isn't reducible to anythingelse.(Time Jan.19,2007)【结构分析】该句子中,逗号前表示否定的词not only放在句首,使用了部分倒装。 并列平行结构【难句】1.In each case the pattern is the same:young people adopt a new formof entertainment, older people are spooked by its unfamiliarity and condemn it, buteventually the young grow up and the new medium becomes accepted-at whichpoint another example appears and the cycle begins again.(The Economist Jun.