考研英语（一）长难句解析系列之五

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(本文作者为中公考研辅导名师——樊晓红)
　　长难句在考研英语的试卷可谓“无处不在”，在上一次的讨论中，我们发现，很多英语中的很多句子都是可以化成一个句子：I love you. 也就是说，世界上的千言万语都汇成了这一话：我爱你。这是不是在提醒我们要经常说这三个字呀?还记得上一次我们拿那篇可谓前无古人，后无来者考试试卷中例子分析吗?还记得看句子的具体方法吗：抓主干，找主句的的主谓。逐一分析，我们继续：
　　Although it ruled that there is no constitutional right to physician-assisted suicide, the Court in effect supported the medical principle of "double effect, "a centuries-old moral principle holding that an action having two effects — a good one that is intended and a harmful one that is foreseen — is permissible if the actor intends only the good effect.
　　这句话超长，我们利用以前的知识，先过滤掉一些信息，比如一眼看到的从句：Although it ruled that there is no constitutional right to physician-assisted suicide,，比如前面说过的插入语— a good one that is intended and a harmful one that is foreseen —，这么，就剩下了： the Court in effect supported the medical principle of "double effect, " a centuries-old moral principle holding that an action having two effects is permissible if the actor intends only the good effect. 再试着过滤一些信息，比如隐藏的从句that an action having two effects is permissible ，比如熟悉的if 从句：if the actor intends only the good effect，那么二次过滤后，就剩下了：the Court in effect supported the medical principle of "double effect, " a centuries-old moral principle，接下来第三次过滤：the Court in effect supported the medical principle of "double effect, " a centuries-old moral principle，去掉in effect，medical ，of "double effect, " ，就只剩下了the Court supported principle，a centuries-old moral principle.而这个 a centuries-old moral principle是什么呢?它不就是对前面这个principle的再次解释，这不就是我们所谓的同位语，那么这句话是不是就只剩下了the Court supported principle这个主干呢?是不是一个很典型的主谓宾呢?是不是咱们说一千到一万的：我爱你!
　　所以，归纳一句话：抓主干，找主句的主谓，就找I love you.
　　现在，同学们对这些长句子是不是有点感觉呢，接下来的几个句子留给大家思考，我们下次继续讨论!但在下一次的讨论中，我们会继续深入，会将各个成分给大家逐一分析，但我们的原则始终是抓主干，找主句的主谓，就找I love you。我们会以这样的方式来进行：
　　Though typically about two inches taller now than 140 years ago,
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　　today's people—especially those born to families who have lived in the U.S. for many
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　　generations—apparently reached their limit in the early 1960s.(2008年Text3)
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　　【参考译文】虽然现在人们比140年前高了2英寸，特别是那些出生在已移民美国很多代的那些人，但是明显的，在二十世纪60年代早期，已经到达了他们的身高的极限。
　　通过以上例题分析，作者相信小伙伴们肯定对考研英语句子越来越深入。中公的老师全程陪伴在同学们的左右，为你们解答考研路上的各种疑惑，一起打赢这场战争!考研路上有你我，中公与你同行!