解決GRE閱讀長難句的總體思路
想要處理好GRE長難句,總體思路必須明確,那就是把句子的主干先抓出來,然后結(jié)合這些修飾成分有層次的理解句子。而抓住句子的核心主干的竅門往往在于找出句子的真正謂語,因?yàn)橹^語是支撐整個(gè)句子的支點(diǎn)。
GRE閱讀難句類型:復(fù)雜修飾成分
實(shí)例:In many instances, spectators in the era before recorded sound experienced elaborate aural presentations alongside movies' visual images, from the Japanese benshi (narrators) crafting multivoiced dialogue narratives to original musical compositions performed by symphony-size orchestras in Europe and the United States.
解析:本句主干結(jié)構(gòu)是spectators experienced elaborate aural presentations alongside movies' visual images,其實(shí)非常簡單,就是說觀眾們既看到影像也欣賞到了音效。但是從句子一開頭的狀語In many instances開始,作者用in the era before recorded sound 修飾主語spectators,割裂了謂語 experienced和主語之間的關(guān)系,然后賓語是 elaborate aural presentations alongside movies' visual images倒不難,但是隨后用一個(gè) from the Japanese benshi (narrators) crafting multivoiced dialogue narratives to original musical compositions performed by symphony-size orchestras in Europe and the United States.來解釋這個(gè)主干成分的句子。就使句子變得很復(fù)雜了。
譯文:很多時(shí)候,在有聲時(shí)代之前,觀眾們在觀看影像的同時(shí)也欣賞到了精心制作的音效,從日本多人對話式敘事到歐美交響樂團(tuán)的原聲樂,無不體現(xiàn)這一點(diǎn)。
GRE閱讀難句類型:層層疊加
實(shí)例:Though it may be difficult to imagine from a later perspective, a strain of critical opinion in the 1920 s 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.
解析:本句也是GMAC的老套路了,為了把句子變長,就層層追加修飾成分,先又Though it may be difficult to imagine from a later perspective所謂一個(gè)轉(zhuǎn)折的分句,然后主句是a strain of critical opinion in the 1920 s predicted that sound film would be a technical novelty ,接著用that引導(dǎo) 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的長句嵌套插入成分,來修飾novelty,但是實(shí)際上這些都不是什么重要的成分,大家只要讀出來主句結(jié)構(gòu)和句子的核心意思就是以前有一種預(yù)言認(rèn)為有聲電影很快就會(huì)消失就行了。
譯文:盡管后來人很難理解,但在20世紀(jì)20年代,一種批判性的意見預(yù)言:有聲電影是一種將很快淡出公眾視線的科技新事物,就像的許多先前把圖像和聲音結(jié)合起來的嘗試,這些嘗試可以追溯到第一次世界大戰(zhàn)。
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