2018屠屠考研英语长难句 一日一句(62)

每日一句：

62. It was refreshing, across the age groups of the children I met, to see how quickly they grasped the whole idea of human rights and how, with a little bit of prompting from their teachers and me, they saw how relevant they were to their daily lives.

【分析】

 across the age groups of the children I met是插入语。去掉可以得到It was refreshing to see…是主句，see后面的宾语是and连接的两个how引导的句子充当：how quickly they grasped the whole idea of human rights and how…。其中with a little bit of prompting from their teachers and me作插入语，也是句子的伴随状语。将插入语去除完整的句子是It was refreshing to see how quickly they grasped the whole idea of human rights and how they saw how relevant they were to their daily lives。第二个从句中，谓语say后仍然是由how引导的名词性从句how relevant they were to their daily lives充当宾语。

【词汇】

 refreshing提神的，凉爽的(在此处理解为“让人高兴的”)

prompting 促进，激励（此处是“提示”的含义）

be relevant to与…有关

【参考译文】  看到我遇到的同年龄段孩子们那么迅速地领会人权的整体观念，并且在我和他们的老师只给了一点儿提示的情况下，认识到人权与他们的生活如何密切相关，这让人感到兴奋。