攻克考研英语长难句是英语复习的一大要务，之于翻译阅读都很有必要。长难句的理解和掌握还需要实战，在不断的学习、分析和练习中去提升，每天看一看，日积月累，增长词汇量的同时提升你的翻译阅读能力，下面来看今天的长难句分析。 2017考研英语长难句分析每日一句（569）
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. If you then examined the European national
youth teams that feed the World Cup and professional ranks, you would find this
strange phenomenon to be even more pronounced. 译文：如果看一下2006年世界杯赛的所有参加足球运动员的出生证明，你极有可能会发现一个值得注意的奇怪现象：球队中的精英运动员大多是出生在上半年，而不是下半年。如果你再看一下为世界杯和职业联赛输送人才的欧洲各国的国家青年队，你会发现这种奇怪的现象更加明显。 点睛：这两个句子都是虚拟语气。第一句的主干为you would…find a…quirk，其前面是虚拟条件句，冒号后面的句子elite soccer
players.是前面宾语quirk的同位语.这个同位语从句的主干为elite soccer players are more likely to have
been born...than in...。第二句的主干为you would find this strange phenomenon to be even
more pronounced，其中宾语为this strange phenomenon，不定式结构to be even more
pronounced为宾语补足语。在第二个句子的条件从句中包含了一个定语从句that feed the World Cup and professional
ranks.修饰the European national youth teams。birth
certificate意为“出生证”。certificate是“证明书”。noteworthy意为“值得注意，引人注意的”。quirk意为“怪癖;怪事，巧合”，在句中表示“奇怪的现象”。elite意为“精英，杰出人士”。feed的基本义是“喂养，饲养”，在本句中引申为“输送”。
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