考研英语重在基础，建议广大考生在了解考研英语大纲的前提下，首先积累英语词汇量，并通过做阅读理解、翻译、写作等练习在词义方面加以提升，然后再考虑学习掌握答题技巧。当然，我们知道英语知识的复习是一个长期积累的过程。让我们跟随何凯文老师的每日一句。所谓：不积跬步，无以至千里;不积小流，无以成江海。坚持就是胜利!

predicate 的用法

Well established among segments of the middle and upper classes by the mid-1800’s,this new view of childhood spread throughout in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries as reformers introduced child-labor regulation and compulsory education laws predicated in part on the assumption that a child’s emotional value made child labor taboo.

【词汇突破】

segment 部分，阶层

the poorer segments of society：社会中的较贫穷阶层

Predicate v. 断言，断定;n. 谓语;还有一个重要的意思：动词:基于;取决于;以…为基础

例句：Financial success is usually predicated on having money or beingable to obtain it.先要有钱或者能弄到钱才能够赚钱。

A predicated in part on B：A 的出现是部分基于B

Taboo禁忌;忌讳

child-labor regulation 童工法

Compulsory education laws义务教育法

主干识别： this new view (of childhood定语) spread (throughout in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries状语)

其他成分：Wellestablished among segments of the middle and upper classes by the mid-1800’s,

过去分词作状语(可以先单独从句，主语就是this new view)

as reformers introduced child-labor regulation and compulsory education laws predicated in part on the assumption that a child’s emotional value made childlabor taboo.

【状语从句】

微观分析——状语从句主干：

reformers introduced

predicated in part on the assumption……定语修饰前面的两个法;

a child’s emotional value made child labor taboo. 同位语从句补充说明assumption;

参考译文：这一新的观点在十八世纪的中期就已经在社会的中上阶层中牢牢的确立了，在19世纪末和20世纪初在社会的各阶层中传播开来，因为当时改革者们引入了童工法和义务教育法，这些法律和法规的出现部分是基于下面的假设:孩子们的情感价值使得童工成为了一种禁忌。