长难句(16)

1、【原文】

You can make a mental blueprint of a desire as you would make a blueprint of a house, and each of us is continually making these blueprints in the general routine of everyday living.

 

2、【分析】

此句是用and连接的两个并列句。在前一个分句中,又用as引导了一个比较状语从句,将make a blueprint of a desire 与 make a blueprint of a house作比较。第二个分句的主干是:each of us... is making... Blueprints...

 

3、【词汇】

blueprint n.蓝图

continually adv.持续不断地

routine n. 常规

 

4、【译文】

你可以在头脑里勾画出愿望的蓝图,如同设计房屋的蓝图一样。而我们每个人在日常生活中都在不停地勾画着这样的愿望蓝图。

 

长难句(17)

1、【原文】

While talking to you, your could-be employer is deciding whether your education, your experience, and other qualifications will pay him to employ you and your wares and abilities must be displayed in an orderly and reasonably connected manner.


2、【分析】

该句主干是While …, your could-be employer is deciding whether... and your wares and abilities must be displayed...。前一个分句中while引导状语从句,decide后面是whether引导的宾语从句,该从句中并列主语为your education, your experience, and other qualifications,谓语部分为pay him,后面是不定式做的状语。and后面的并列句是被动语态,其中in … manner为方式状语。

 

3、【词汇】

pay sb. to do sth. 干某事对某人有利
如:It will pay you to be careful.(小心谨慎对你有好处)

could-be 可能的,未来的

wares 本义为“货物,商品”,这里表示应聘者能够展示出来的资格和能力。

 

4、【译文】

在与你面谈时,你未来的雇主将根据你的教育背景、经验和其他的资历来确定雇用你是否值得,因此你必须把你“待售的物品”和能力以有序而合理连贯的方式呈现出来。

 

长难句(18)

1、【原文】

The corporation will survive as a publicly-funded broadcasting organization,at least for the time being,but its role,its size and its programmes are now the subject of a nation-wide debate in Britain.

 

2、【分析】

该句是由but连接的两个转折关系的分句。前半句为The corporation will survive as …,其中at least for the time being的意思是“眼下,暂时”,这里做时间状语。后半句的主干可以表达为A are the subject of B(A是B的对象)。

 

3、【词汇】

survive v. 幸存;战胜

fund v.投资

for the time being 暂时

 

4、【译文】

虽然至少目前,它仍可以以公办广播机构的身份生存下去,但它的作用、规模和节目类型却成了全英国争论的话题。