历年考研真题长难句解析荟萃(49)
1. What has happened is that people cannot confess fully to their dreams,as easily and openly as once they could, lest they be thought pushing, acquisitive and vulgar.【译文】 现在的情况是人们不能像以前那样轻易而公开地坦陈自己的梦想，惟恐别人认为自己爱出风头、贪婪、庸俗。
【析句】 what一词指代的是that引导的从句（that people cannot confess fully to their dreams），as easily and openly as once they could作从句的状语。此外 lest引导的是一个带虚拟语气的假设状语从句。
【讲词】 pushing意为“有进取心的,有冲劲的,急切的”。
acquisitive意为“好学的；贪婪的”，例如：The boy was so acquisitive that he seemed interested in learning everything.（男孩很好学，不管学什么他似乎都有兴趣。）In an acquisitive society the form that selfishness predominantly takes is monetary greed.（在一个贪婪的社会里,贪财是自私自利的突出表现形式。）
vulgar意为“粗俗的,庸俗的，下流的”。the technical and vulgar names of an animal species(动物种类的科学名称和通俗名称。）The newly rich like to dispaly their vulgar houses and cars.（新富喜欢炫耀其庸俗的房屋和汽车。）
2. Instead,we are treated to fine hypocritical spectacles,which now more than ever seem in ample supply: the critic of American materialism with a Southampton summer home; the publisher of radical books who takes his meals in threestar restaurants; the journalist advocating participatory democracy in all phases of life,whose own children are enrolled in private schools.
【译文】 相反我们目睹了比以前任何时候都多的虚伪景观：美国物欲主义批评家在南安普顿拥有一幢避暑别墅，激进图书的出版商在三星级餐馆就餐，倡导终生参与民主制的新闻记者把自己的子女送进私立学校。
【析句】 本句的主句是we are treated to fine hypocritical spectacles。非限定性的定语从句（which now more than ever seem in ample supply）修饰spectacles。冒号后面的成分是三个并列的名词性短语，其核心词分别是critic，publisher和 journalist。
spectacles在文中意为“壮观景象”，有一定的反讽意味。
【讲词】 be treated to“被款待，被招待”，例如：She treated herself to a day in the country.（她花了一天时间在乡间游玩。）该词组的意思是to be provided with或to be given,因而，在译成汉语时应该考虑加上合适的动词。
in supply和in demand词义相反，意为“供应”，in ample supply意为“供应充足”。反之，表示“供应短缺”英语是in short supply。
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