23. But it's not as if earlier times didn't know perpetual war, disaster and the massacre of innocents.
【分析】復(fù)合句。主句是主系表結(jié)構(gòu),as if 引導(dǎo)表語從句。在表語從句中,主語是 earlier times,隱含的是 the people in earlier times;謂語是 didn't know;賓語是三個(gè)并列的名詞及名詞短語。
【譯文】但這不是說以前的時(shí)代沒有經(jīng)歷過連續(xù)不斷的戰(zhàn)爭、災(zāi)難和濫殺無辜。
【點(diǎn)撥】1) 本句中 know 意為“經(jīng)歷”。2) massacre “大屠殺;破壞,毀壞”。
24. The rise of anti-happy art exactly tracks the emergence of mass media, and with it, a commercial culture in which happiness is not an ideal but an ideology.
【分析】簡單句。句子主干為 The rise of anti-happy art...tracks the emergence of media and...a commercial culture。with it 中 it 指代 emergence of mass media。which 引導(dǎo)的定語從句修飾先行詞 a commercial culture。其中使用了 not...but...結(jié)構(gòu)。
【譯文】反快樂藝術(shù)的興起幾乎完全可以追溯到大眾傳媒的出現(xiàn),以及隨之興起的商業(yè)文化,在這種文化中,快樂不僅僅是一個(gè)理想,而且是一種意識形態(tài)。
【點(diǎn)撥】1) ideal“理想(的)”。2)ideology“意識形態(tài),思想方式”。