考研英语复习：长难句划分技巧及实例分析

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英语长句的分析方法：去枝叶，留主干。
1)划出句子中的定语从句和状语从句;
2)划出所有介词短语(位于be动词后的除外);
3)名词性从句看作一个整体,找出句中所有的谓语结构、非谓语结构、介词短语和从句的引导词;
4)非谓语动词结构看作一个整体;
5)找出全句的主语、谓语和宾语，即句子的主干;
6)分析从句的结构和非谓语动词的内部结构。
长难句分析的步骤举例
经典例题(2001年考研完型填空第二段)
In a significant tightening of legal controls over the press, Lord Irvine, the Lord Chancellor, will introduce a draft bill that will propose making payments to witnesses illegal and will strictly control the amount of publicity that can be given to a case before a trial begins.
分析:
第一，划出定语从句和状语从句: that will propose making payments to witnesses illegal and will strictly control the amount of publicity /that can be given to a case /before a trial begins.
第二，划出介词短语：In a significant tightening of legal controls over the press
第三，句子的结构分析:
(1)主干结构是主语(Lord Irvine含同位语the Lord Chancellor)+将来时谓语(will introduce)+宾语(a draft bill);
(2)that引导的定语从句修饰draft bill,其中，will propose 是第一个谓语，making payments to witnesses illegal是一个动名词短语做宾语，在动名词短语内部，payments to witnesses做making的宾语，illegal是宾补;第二个谓语是will strictly control, the amount of publicity是它的宾语。that can be given to a case before a trial begins是孕含有一个时间状语从句(before a trial begins)的定语从句，修饰publicity。
请大家按照上述步骤认真分解以下的句子，并把分解后的句子读熟甚至背过，则基本上可以解决考研长难句问题。
考研英语十大长难句实例分析
1. When a new movement in art attains a certain fashion, it is advisable to find out what its advocates are aiming at, for, however farfetched and unreasonable their principles may seem today, it is possible that in years to come they may be regarded as normal.
结构分析: 本句是由for连接的两个因果关系的并列句;for前面的部分是表示结果的分句，此句结构是when引导的状语从句+主句，主句主干结构是... it is advisable to ...，其中，it是形式主语，真正的主语是后面的动词不定式结构;动词不定式结构中又包含一个what引导的宾语从句，做find out的宾语;for后面的部分是表示原因的分句，此句结构是：让步状语从句+主句，主句主干结构是... it is possible that... ,it 是形式主语，真正的主语是后面的that从句;
译文: 当一场新的艺术运动形成某种时尚时，理应弄清其倡导者的目标所在，因为无论他们的准则在今天看来是多么牵强附会、不可思议，将来都有可能被视为正常的。
2.The overall result has been to make entrance to professional geological journals harder for amateurs, a result that has been reinforced by the widespread introduction of refereeing, first by national journals in the nineteenth century and then by several local geological journals in the twentieth century.
结构分析: 本句主干部分是The ... result has been to make entrance ... harder for amateurs...; 第一个逗号后面是一个名词性短语，中心词是the result，后面是that引导的定语从句;此定语从句中包含两个并列状语，其结构为first by ... and then by ... ;
译文: 其总的结果是使业余人员的论文进入专业性地质学杂志更加困难，而审稿制度的全面引进使论文发表的难度进一步加大，这一制度开始是在19世纪的全国性杂志出现的，进入20世纪后也在一些地方性地质杂志实行。