托福阅读长难句（二）

　　托福阅读长难句100句参考翻译：

　　Cleisthenes对于创造雅典民主的主要贡献是他完成了减弱家族和宗族结构(尤其是贵族家族和宗族结构)的长期的过程，并且在他们所在地方设置基于地点的称之为demes团体，这成为了雅典所有公民和大多数宗教生活的入口点。

　　这个句子的主要修饰成分就是从句、介词短语和非谓语动词，大家务必想清楚，每一个修饰成分修饰的是什么，才能看清楚这个句子的结构。

二、托福阅读长难句：守旧派小说

　　In a period characterized by the abandonment of so much of the realistic tradition by authors such as John Barth，Donald Barthelme，and Thomas Pynchon, Joyce Carol Oates has seemed at times determinedly old-fashioned in her insistence on the essentially mimetic quality of her fiction.

　　(特殊结构characterized by…——以…为特征)

　　【译句】尽管处于一个以抛弃大量现实主义传统(以作家约翰?巴思、唐纳德?巴塞尔姆和托马斯.品钦为代表)为特征的时代，乔伊斯?卡罗尔?欧茨因为坚持自己小说本质上模仿的特点，有时候看起来是一个坚定的守旧派。

　　分句1. characterized by the abandonment of so much of the realistic tradition by authors such as John Barth，Donald Barthelme，and Thomas Pynchon,

　　分句2. Joyce Carol Oates has seemed at times determinedly old-fashioned in her insistence OD the essentially mimetic quality of her fiction.

　　分句1 做时间状语“In a period”的后置定语，补充修饰period，相当于省略了 “which was”的定语从句。 分句2 是主句。

　　整个句子的难点在于找主句。 其实分句1的末尾是 "such as" 引导的三个人名的并列，在最后一个人名Thomas Pynchon前有"and", 说明这个列举对象中的最后一个。所以整个句子的主干在T P 这个人后面出现。

三、托福阅读长难句：动物生存能力

　　If it were not for this faculty, they would devour all the food available in short time and would probably starve themselves out of existence.

　　(虚拟语气)

　　【译句】如果不是具有这种能力，它们就会在短时间内吞掉所有能得到的食物，而且很可能会因饿死而灭绝。

　　分句1. If it were not for this faculty

　　分句2. they would devour all the food available in short time

　　分句3. would probably starve themselves out of existence

　　分句1 是虚拟语气的条件从句

　　分句2、3是并列关系，并且是主句。

四、托福阅读长难句：二战之后的加拿大

　　Basic to any understanding of Canada in the 20 years after the Second World War is the country's impressive population growth.

　　(倒装结构Basic to any understanding…is…)

　　要理解二战之后20年中的加拿大，就必须了解该国惊人的人口增长。

　　分句1：Basic to any understanding of Canada in the 20 years after the Second World War

　　分句2：is

　　分句3：the country's impressive population growth

　　分句1，2，3共同构成倒装句，正常的语序应该是3，2，1，即：该句的正常语序是The country's impressive population growth is basic to any understanding of Canada in the 20 years after the Second World War.

　　本句是一个简单句，只不过使用了倒装，谓语动词是is.

五、托福阅读长难句：深海底部环境

　　Totally without light and subjected to intense pressures hundreds of times greater than at the Earth’s surface，the deep—ocean bottom is a hostile environment to humans，in some ways as forbidding and remote as the void of outer space.

　　(定语后置in some ways…)