轻松搞定考研英语阅读——历年真题长难句分析（30）
小编前言：阅读是考研英语中重要的得分点和难点，对长难句的分析则决定了对阅读的彻底理解，也是学习语法，积累高级词汇、句型不可或缺的来源。而考研英语真题阅读部分均选自Economists、New Yorker等著名外文报纸及杂志，其行文和词汇原汁原味，值得考生细细品味和灵活借鉴。准备2014考研的研友们，还等什么？赶快学起来吧！同时，欢迎各位考生针对例句的翻译及分析给出自己的理解哦！
1. If you were to examine the birth certificates of every soccer player in 2006’s World Cup tournament, you would most likely find a noteworthy quirk: elite soccer players are more likely to have been born in the earlier months of the year than in the later months. (2007. 阅读. Text 1)
【译文】如果你打算在2006年世界杯锦标赛上调查所有足球运动员的出生证明，那么你很有可能发现一个引人注目的巧合：优秀足球运动员更可能出生于每年的前几个月而不是后几个月。
【析句】复合句的主干是If you were to examine the birth certificates...,you would most likely find a noteworthy quirk。主句中，冒号后的比较句是a noteworthy quirk的具体内容，从句是if引导的条件状语从句。因此，虽然本例句比较长，但可分解为三个结构简单的句子，再分析句与句之间的逻辑关系即可。
2. This success, coupled with later research showing that memory itself is not genetically determined, led Ericsson to conclude that the act of memorizing is more of a cognitive exercise than an intuitive one. (2007. 阅读. Text 1)
【译文】这一成功，连同后来证明的记忆本身不是遗传决定的研究，使得埃里克森得出结论，即记忆过程是一种认知练习，而不是一种本能练习。
【析句】先看主干，This success led Ericsson to conclude...。其中，that引导的比较句作conclude的宾语从句。句中还有一个插入语结构，coupled with later research是过去分词作伴随状语，showing that则是现在分词作定语。
3. In other words, whatever inborn differences two people may exhibit in their abilities to memorize, those differences are swamped by how well each person “encodes” the information. (2007. 阅读. Text 1)
【译文】换句话说，无论两个人在记忆能力上可能存在怎样的天生差异，这些差异都会被每个人如何恰当地“解读”所记的信息所掩盖。
【析句】本例句要注意两点：首先，whatever inborn differences two people may exhibit...是whatever引导让步状语从句，比起although等连词比较少见；第二，主句those differences are swamped by...中，特殊疑问句how well each person encodes the imformation作by的宾语从句，常见的宾语从句多为that引导的陈述句。
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