下面是2014年6月英語六級閱讀真題長難句解析(29),請考生仔細分析句子結構。
1. Instead of giving out gold watches worth a hundred or so dollars for forty or so years of work, they grab tens and even hundreds of millions of dollars as they sell for their own profit the company they may have been with for only a few years. (2006. 閱讀. 12. Text 2)
【譯文】現在的資本家不再給工作了四十年將要退休的員工發放價值一百多美元的金表,而是為了一己私利把僅僅經營了幾年的公司賣掉,攫取上百萬千萬美元的財富。
【析句】復合句。主句they grab tens and even hundreds of millions of dollars, 主句后是as引導的時間狀語從句as they sell the company for their own profit, 因為the company后有定語從句they may been with for only a few years,所以把the company放在了目的狀語for theri own profit的后面。
2. Their selfishness is most shamelessly expressed in downsizing and outsourcing because these business maneuvers don’t act to create new jobs as the founders of new industries used to do, but only to cut out jobs while keeping the money value of what those jobs produced for themselves. (2006. 閱讀. 12. Text 2)
【譯文】他們的自私體現在心安理得地縮小公司規模以及將產品的生產外包,因為這些企業操控者不像新企業的創辦者過去常做的那樣,創造新的就業機會,反而在保留那些崗位所創造的效益的同時不斷削減崗位。
【析句】復合句。主句Their selfishness is most shamelessly expressed in downsizing and outsourcing, 主句后是because引導的原因狀語從句because these business maneuvers don't act to create new jobs,but only to cut out,由but連接兩部份。but前的原因狀語從句后有as引導的時間狀語從句,but后的部份but only to cut out jobs后也有while引導的時間狀語從句,并且時間狀語從句中,what those jobs produced for themselves作of的賓語從句。
3. The middle class may also wake up to forget its loyalty to the so-called free enterprise system altogether and the government which governs only the rest of us while letting the corporations do what they please with our jobs. (2006. 閱讀. 12. Text 2)
【譯文】中產階級或許也會開始忘記對所謂自由企業體系以及政府的忠誠,后者只管理我們個人,卻允許公司財團對我們的工作為所欲為。
【析句】復合句。主句The middle class may wake up to forget its loyalty to the free enterprise system and the government,the government后which引導定語從句修飾the government, 并且定語從句中還包括while引導的時間狀語從句while letting the corporations do...,what they please with our jobs作do的賓語從句。
n. 企業,事業,謀劃,進取心