英語(yǔ)四級(jí)閱讀理解之破譯長(zhǎng)難句(2)

　　The first study to compare honesty across a range of communications media has found that people are twice as likely to tell lies in phone conversations as they are in emails. (06.6 Passage 1)

　　分析主干：The first study... has found that...

　　不定式to compare...作定語(yǔ)修飾the first study，that 引導(dǎo)的從句至句末，作found的賓語(yǔ)。賓語(yǔ)從句用了同級(jí)比較結(jié)構(gòu)as... as，句中，是they are likely to tell lies inphone 和they are (likely to tell lies) in emails 進(jìn)行比較。

　　譯文：第一個(gè)在各種不同的通訊媒介中對(duì)比誠(chéng)實(shí)度的研究發(fā)現(xiàn)，人們?cè)陔娫捳勗捴姓f(shuō)謊的可能性是他們?cè)陔娮余]件中說(shuō)謊的可能性的兩倍。