2016考研英语长难句解析（49）

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America's capacity utilization, for example, hit historically high levels
earlier this year, and its jobless rate (5.6% in August) has fallen below most
estimates of the natural rate of unemployment -- the rate below which inflation
has taken off in the past.
    词汇突破：
    1.capacity
utilization产能利用率，也叫设备利用率，是工业总产出对生产设备的比率，简单的理解，就是实际生产能力到底有多少在运转发挥生产作用
    2. estimate 名词;评估
    3. inflation 通货膨胀
    4. take off 起飞(发生)
    看完这个句子后判断下面那个选项是最佳选项：
    A. An extremely low jobless rate will lead to inflation.
    B. A high unemployment rate will result from inflation
    句子解析：
    并列分句一：America’s capacity utilization, for example, hit historically high
levels earlier this year,举个例子，美国的产能利用率在这年的早期时候达到了历史新高。
    并列分句二：its jobless rate (5.6% in August) has fallen below most estimates of
the natural rate of unemployment -- the rate below which inflation has taken off
in the past.
    主干识别：its jobless rate (5.6% in August) has fallen below most estimates of
the natural rate of unemployment.美国的失业率已经低于大多数评估的自然失业率了。
    同位语：the rate= natural rate of unemployment 或者 its jobless rate (5.6% in
August);
    定语从句：below which inflation has taken off in the past.(which= natural rate
of unemployment)
    调整一下： inflation has taken off in the past below the natural rate of
unemployment.
    在过去，低于自然失业率，通货膨胀就会飙升(发生)了。
    即使你不知道take off 是什么意思，你也就和答案比对就好了。不要纠结于翻译本身，我们的目的是作对题!
    below the natural rate of unemployment.(原因)
    inflation has taken off (结果)
    要判断下面的两个选项就要和最后的一个定语从句进行比对：
    [A] An extremely low jobless rate will lead to inflation
    [B] A high unemployment rate will result from inflation
    所以很容易得知A是最佳选项。