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考研英语阅读必背50个长难句(上)
攻克考研英语阅读长难句,人们需要多背多看多总结,正所谓熟能生巧,通过背诵,人们可以提高语感和遣词造句能力,下面新东方在线分享50个典型长难句自,但愿考生记下。
1. It is difficult to the point ofimpossibility for the average reader under theage of forty to imagine a time when high- quality arts criticism could be found in most big-citynewspapers. ( T1 P2)
对于平均年龄40岁如下读者而言,她们很难想象在大多数大都市主流报纸上可以读到高质量艺术评论那一年代。
2. To read such books today is tomarvel at the fact that their learned contents were once deemed suitable for publication in general- circulation dailies. ( T1 P2)
今天咱们阅读这样书籍,会惊讶于这样一种事实:这些学术性文艺评论曾经被认为适合刊登在面向大众发行日报上。
3. In those far-off days,it was taken for granted that the critics of major papers wouldwrite in detail and at length about the events they covered. ( T1 P3)
在那些远去日子里,主流报刊评论家们详尽地评论所报道事件,认为是理所固然。
4. Curbs on business-method claimswould be a dramaticabout-face,because it was the Federal Circuit itself that introduced such patents with its1998 decision in the so- called State Street Bank case,approving a patent on a way of poolingmutual-fund assets. ( T2 P3)
对于商业办法专利授予限制将会浮现巨大转变,由于正是联邦巡回法院在1998年被称为“州街银行案”决策中引入了此类专利,其中共有资产投资管理办法被授予了专利。
5. The Federal Circuit issued an unusual order stating that the case would be heard byall 12 of the court’s judges,rather than a typical panel of three,and thatone issue it wants to evaluate iswhether it should “reconsider” its State Street Bank ruling. ( T2 P4)
联邦巡回法院发布了一项不寻常法令,即这个案件将由法院所有12名法官共同听审,而不是典型三人听审团。法令还宣布法院但愿评估与否要“重新考虑”州街银行案裁决。
6. In his book The Tipping Point,Malcolm Gladwell argues that “social epidemics” are driven in large part by the actions of a tinyminority of special individuals,often called influentials,who are unusually-informed,persuasive,or well connected. ( T3 P1)
Malcolm Gladwell在她《引爆点》一书中指出,“社会流行潮”重要是由一少某些特殊个体行为引领,这些人普通被称为有影响力人,她们博闻强识,有说服力,并且有较好人脉。
7. For a social epidemic to occur,however,each person so affected must then influence his or her ownacquaintances,who must in turn influence theirs,and so on;and just how many others pay attention to each of these people haslittle to do with the initial influential. (T3 P4)
但是对于社会流行潮形成来说,每一种受影响人必要接着去影响她们熟人,这些人还要继续影响她们熟人,如此循环下去;然而处在中间层级人能得到被影响者多少关注往往与最初有影响力人没多大关系。
8. The details may be unknowable,butthe independence of standard-setters,essential to the proper functioning of capital markets,is being compromised. ( T4 P2)
细节也许不得而知,但是对于资我市场正常运转至关重要准则制定者独立性正在面临妥协(被弱化)。
9. And dead markets partly reflect the paralysis of bankswhich will not sell assets for fear of booking losses,yet are reluctant to buyall those supposed bargains. ( T4 P5)
并且,不流动市场(交易量萎靡)一定限度上反映了银行系统瘫痪。银行由于胆怯(报告)其账面损失而不愿出售(有毒)资产,同步也不愿收购那些(别人持有)所谓便宜资产。
10. The decision of the New YorkPhilharmonic to hire Alan Gilbert asits next musicdirector has been the talk of the classical-music world ever sincethe sudden announcementof his appointment in . ( T1 P1)
纽约爱乐乐团决定聘请Alan Gilbert 作为其下一任指挥,这一决定自忽然宣布以来就始终是古典音乐界热议话题。
11. For the time,attention,and moneyof the art- loving public,classical instrumentalists must compete not only with opera houses,dance troupes,theater companies,and museums,butalso with the recorded performances ofthe great classical musicians of the 20th century. ( T1 P4)
出于对于艺术爱好者时间、精力和金钱角度考量,古典音乐演奏家们不仅要和歌剧院、舞蹈团、剧团和博物馆竞争,并且还得与那些20世纪伟大古典音乐大师作品唱片进行竞争。
12. Rather than cloaking his exit inthe usual vague excuses,he came rightout and said he was leaving “to pursue my goal of runninga company.” ( T2 P1)
她并没有用普通模糊不清理由来掩饰自己离职,她很坦白地说她离开就是“为了去追求经营一家公司目的”。
13. Says Korn /Ferry senior partnerDennis Carey:“I can’t think of a single search I’ve done where a board has notinstructed me to look at sitting CEOs first.” ( T2 P4)
Dennis Carey 高档合作人Korn Ferry 说:“在我所做每一次招聘当中,董事会都规定我从那些在任CEO 中去寻找。
14. The way consumers now approach theprocess of making purchase decisions means that marketings impact stems from a broad range of factorsbeyondconventionalpaid media. ( T3 P1)
如今消费者做出购买决定过程表白:市场营销影响(效果) 源自于除了老式付费媒体之外诸多因素。
15. The same dramatic technological changes that haveprovided marketers with more (and more diverse) communications choices havealso increased the risk that passionate consumers will voice their opinions in quicker,more visible,and much more damaging ways. ( T3 P3)
同样剧烈技术变革在给营销人员提供更多交流选取同步,也带来了更高风险,由于充满激情消费者会以更快、更明显且更具破坏力方式来刊登她们观点。
16. It’s no surprise that JenniferSenior’s insightful,provocative magazine coverstory,“I Love My Children,I Hate My Life”,is arousing much chatter—nothing gets people talking like the suggestion thatchild rearing is anything less than a completely fulfilling,life-enrichingexperience.( T4 P1)
Jennifer Senior 在一片具有煽动意味杂志封面故事中表达了她深刻见解,《我爱我孩子们,我讨厌我生活》引起了人们热烈讨论,这并不奇怪——养儿育女不完全是自我实现过程。
17. But it’s interesting to wonder ifthe images we see every week of stress-free,happiness-enhancing parenthoodaren’t in some small,subconscious waycontributing to our own dissatisfactions with the actual experience,in the sameway that a small part of us hoped getting “the Rachel” might make us look justa little bit like Jennifer Aniston. ( T4 P5)
但是,这的确有趣:想想咱们每周都能在杂志上看到无忧无虑、幸福父母形象与否以某种细微、不为人所感知方式加剧了咱们自己对现实生活不满?这就好比咱们中有一少某些人但愿可以成为(《老友记》中)Rachel,(这样)使自己看起来有一点像Jennifer Aniston 吧。
18. But in her new book Join the Club,Tina Rosenberg contends that peer pressure can also be apositive force through what she calls the social cure,in which organizationsand officials use the power of group dynamics to help individuals improve theirlives and possibly the world. ( T1 P1)
但是Tina Rosenberg 在她新书《加入俱乐部》中主张,通过她所谓社会治疗,同侪压力也可以成为一种积极力量。在社会治疗中某些组织和官方(机构)运用团队动态力量来协助个人提高她们生活,甚至改善整个世界。
19. “Dare to be different,please dontsmoke!” pleadsone billboard campaign aimed at reducing smokingamong teenagers- teenagers,who desire nothing more than fitting in. ( T1 P3)
一场旨在减少青少年吸烟广告牌上写到“敢于与众不同,请不要吸烟”。然而,这些青少年却是最渴望融入(与她人行为同样)。
20. Instead,the company has done precisely what it had long promised it would notchallenge the constitutionality of Vermont’s rules in the federal court,as part of a desperate effort to keep its Vermont Yankeenuclear power plant running. ( T2 P2)
然而,就是这家公司,始终以来都承诺:不会在联邦法院质疑佛蒙特州规则符宪性。当前做法(质疑佛蒙特州规则符宪性)是为了使其佛蒙特Yankee 核电站可以继续经营做出孤注一掷行为。
21. The legal issues in the case areobscure:whereas the Supreme Court has ruled that states do have someregulatory authorityover nuclearpower,legal scholars say that Vermont case will offer a precedent-setting testof how far those powers extend. ( T2 P5)
此案件中法律问题还不清楚:尽管最高法院规定州政府在核问题监管方面也有某些权力,然而法律学者说佛蒙特州案件将会给州政府权力究竟有多大这一问题提供一种先例。
22. In the idealized version of how science is done,factsabout the world are waiting to be observed and collected by objective researchers who use thescientific method to carry out their work. ( T3 P1)
在科学是如何展开抱负化版本中,关于世界真相有待于客观研究者使用科学办法去观测和收集。
23. As a discovery claim works its waythrough the community,the interaction and confrontation between shared andcompeting beliefs about the science and the technology involved transforms an individual’s discovery claim into the community’s credible discovery. (T3 P3)
在发现声明通过科学界逐级审查过程中,与该发现相容或相悖理论会互相作用或互相对抗,(最后),个人发现声明转化为(被)整个科学界所认可科学发现。
24. Politicians have repeatedly“backloaded” public-sector pay deals,keeping the pay increases modest but adding to holidays and especiallypensions that are already generous. ( T4 P4)
政治家们不断变相提高公共部门员工收入,使工资增幅看起来不大,但却增长了节假日和本来就已经不菲养老金。
25. Even though there is plenty ofevidence that the quality of the teachers is the most important variable,teachers’ unions have fought against getting rid of bad ones and promoting good ones. (T4 P5)
虽然有大量证据表白教师质量是最重要因素,然而教师工会仍然反对去晋升体现优秀教师,开除那些教学质量差教师。
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