難句類型:復雜修飾、省略、抽象詞
Virginia Woolf’s provocative statement about her intentions in writing Mrs. Dalloway has regularly been ignored by the critics,since it highlights an aspect of her literary interests very different from the traditional picture of the "poetic" novelist concerned with examining states of reverie and vision and with following the intricate pathways of individual consciousness.
譯文:弗吉尼亞.伍爾夫(Virginia Woolf)在創作《黛洛維夫人》(Mrs. Dalloway)時有關其創作意圖的這番發人深思的陳述,迄今為止一貫為文學評論家們所忽略,因為它突出反映了她諸多文學興趣中某一方面,而這一方面則與人們對“詩性”小說家(poetic novelist)所形成的傳統見解大相徑庭。所謂的“詩性”小說家,所關注的是審視想入非非和白日夢幻的諸般狀態,并致力于追尋個體意識的通幽曲徑。
解釋:本句逗號以前只有復雜修飾的長主語有些難,但總的來講比較好懂,since引導的原因狀語從句較難。
A、 since之后的it指前面的statement,highlight的賓語an aspect之后有兩個修飾成分,一個是of her literary interests,另一個是以that引導的定語從句that is very different from the traditional picture of the poetic novelist,都是修飾an aspect的。Novelist后面又有由and 連接的兩個介詞結構concerned with doing 修飾novelist.
B、 句中有兩處省略,一是在her literary interests that is very different from當中,修飾interests的定語從句中引導詞+be that is 一起省略了。第二處在and之后,由于concerned with與前面的concerned with重復,所以concerned被省略。
C、 本句另外一個難懂的地方,就是使用了大量的抽象詞。這是文學市評論題材的文章的一個特點。