托福閱讀長難句100句：對有聲電影的批判

　　Though it may be difficult to imagine from a later perspective, a strain of critical opinion in the 1920s predicted that sound film would be a technical novelty that would soon fade from sight, just as had many previous attempts, dating well back before the First World War, to link images with recorded sound. (TPO12, 54)

　　perspective /p?'spekt?v/ n. 透視法，透視圖;遠景;觀點，看法

　　strain n. 品種，類型

　　我是分界線，大家先自己一遍速讀哦。

　　(Though it may be difficult to imagine from a later perspective),a strain of critical opinion inthe 1920s predicted that sound film would be a technical novelty (that would soon fade from sight),(just as had many previous attempts, (dating well back before the First World War),to link images with recorded sound).(TPO12, 54)

　　托福閱讀長難句100句分析：

　　這句話的主干就是a strain of critical opinion in the 1920s predicted that

　　修飾一：(Though it may be difficult to imagine from a later perspective)，從句

　　中文：雖然從以后的觀點來看很難想象

　　修飾二：(that would soon fade from sight)，從句，修飾a technical novelty

　　中文：不久就會從視線里消失

　　修飾三：( just as had many previous attempts to link images with recorded sound)，從句，大家一定要注意這里的attempts to被插入語(dating well back before the FirstWorld War)隔開了，斷句不要出問題

　　中文：就好像以前試圖把圖像和錄音連接在一起的許多嘗試一樣。

　　修飾四：(dating well back before the First World War)，插入語

　　中文：追溯到一戰(zhàn)以前

　　托福閱讀長難句100句參考翻譯：

　　雖然從以后的觀點來看很難想象，但在20世紀20年代有一種批判的觀點預(yù)測有聲電影將會是不久就會從視線里消失的技術(shù)創(chuàng)新，就好像一戰(zhàn)以前試圖把圖像和錄音連接在一起的許多嘗試一樣。

　　這個句子的主要修飾成分就是從句、插入語，大家務(wù)必想清楚，每一個修飾成分修飾的是什么，才能看清楚這個句子的結(jié)構(gòu)。