【原创】英语长难句理解训练

【让同学们挑战一下自己吧】

1.They had no connection with the outside world for more than a thousand years, giving them plenty of time to build more than 1 ,000 huge stone figures, called moai, for which the island is most famous.

【译文】他们与外界隔绝有一千多年时间，这使他们有充足的时间来建造被称作moai的1000多个巨大的石像，这个岛屿因此而非常著名

2. On the whole such a conclusion can be drawn with a certain degree of confidence but only if the child can be assumed to have had the same attitude towards the test as the other with whom he is compared, and only if he was not punished by lack of relevant information which they possessed.

【译文】总的来说，得出这样一个结论是有一定程度把握的，但是必须具备两个条件：能够假定这个孩子对测试的态度和与他相比的另一个孩子的态度相同；他也没有因缺乏别的孩子已掌握的有关知识而被扣分。

3. Davidson’s article is one of a number of pieces that have recently appeared making the point that the reason we have such stubbornly high unemployment and declining middle-class incomes today is also because of the advances in both globalization and the information technology revolution, which are more rapidly than ever replacing labor with machines or foreign worker.

【译文】近来发表的若干类似戴维森所写的文章，它们都表明了这样一种看法：之所以失业人数居高难下和中产阶级收入持续下降，原因是全球化与信息技术革命已经取得了诸多进步，使得机器和国外员工在取代本国劳动力方面比以往任何时候都要迅速。

4. Therefore, everyone needs to find their extra-their unique value contribution that makes them stand out in whatever is their field of employment.

【译文】因此，每个人都需要找到自己独特的价值，做出独特的贡献，从而在职场中脱颖而出。

5. In a world where average is officially over, there are many things we need to do to support employment, but nothing would be more important than passing some kind of G.I.Bill for the 21st century that ensures that every American has access to post-high school education. (2013. 阅读. Text 1)

【译文】生活在彻底告别平庸的世界中，我们需要采取诸多措施来扶持就业，但其中最重要的是通过21世纪的“士兵教育促就业法案（于1944年通过）”，以确保每个美国人都有机会接受“后高中”教育。

6. The research of Till Von Wachter, the economist in Columbia University, suggests that not all people graduating into a recession see their life chances dimmed: those with degrees from elite universities catch up fairly quickly to where they otherwise would have been if they had graduated in better times; it is the masses beneath them that are left behind.

【译文】哥伦比亚大学经济学家Till Von Wachter的研究表示，不是所有人一毕业就进入萧条，就看到自己的人生机会渺茫：从精英大学毕业的人会快速赶上他本该拥有的职位；落后的人不是别人正是他们底下的普通大众。

7.Unfortunately, L.A. Unified has produced an inflexible policy which mandates （指示）that with the exception of some advanced courses, homework may no longer count for more than 10% of a student’s academic grade.

【译文】不幸的是，洛杉矶学区通过了一项不可变更的政策：除了高等课程，家庭作业在学分中所占比例不可以超过10%。

8. But if the district is essentially giving a pass to students who do not do their homework because of complicated family lives, it is going riskily close to the implication（暗示） that standards need to be lowered for poor children.

【译文】但如果该学区因为学生家庭复杂而不做家庭作业就给他通过的话，那么这就意味着对于贫穷孩子，标准要降低。

9. It insists that economic co-ordination should involve all 27 members of the EU club, among whom there is a small majority for free-market liberalism and economic rigour; in the inner core alone, Germany fears, a small majority favour French interference.

 【译文】德国主张经济合作应该包括所有27个欧盟成员国。但欧盟中有一半多一点的国家信奉自由市场主义和严格的经济政策。就欧盟核心成员国而言，德国担心上述国家会支持法国的干预。

10. During the Depression and the war, Americans had learned to live with less, and that restraint（克制）, in combination with the postwar confidence in the future, made small, efficient housing positively stylish.

 【译文】在大萧条和战争期间，美国人早就学会了在空间有限的房子中居住，美国人民的这种自我约束以及战后对未来生活的自信，使得小而有效的房子成为流行趋势。

11.The World Health Organization recently said that it planned to add gaming disorder(游戏成瘾)to its new list of disease classifications，angering the gaming industry but pleasing doctors who hope it may make treatment more easily available．

Some US experts said it would make little difference when it comes to helping people with the disorder，although others said it would bring attention to a disorder that people sometimes don’t recognize.

Many of us enjoy video games，but does playing our favorite game for a couple of hours every night mean we’re suffering from gaming disorder? Not，according to the WHO．The symptoms listed by the WHO include a lack of control over gaming，treating gaming more seriously than other life interests and daily activities，and continuing to play games despite the negative consequences that playing them might have．“The behavior pattern is enough to result in significant damage to one’s personal，family，or social life，”the WHO said．