阅读量:
托福阅读长难句实例
However, what is astonishing about this is not that Dutch agriculture was affected by critical phenomena such as a decrease in sales and production, but the fact that the crisis appeared only relatively late in Dutch agriculture.
句子分析
本句的主语是what is astonishing about this的主语从句。个that引导的从句在be动词后,叫作表语从句,第二个that引导的从句是同位语从句,解释说明the fact。本句还有一个重要阅读结构是A is not B,but C,这个结构的阅读重点靠后,也就是针对A的重点是C后面的内容,即the fact that the crisis appeared only relatively late in Dutch agriculture。
单词回顾
astonishing作形容词,表示“令人吃惊的”,比如:an astonishing achievement 惊人的成就。
be affected by表示“受到……的影响”,可以借鉴到写作中,通常表示受到不太好事情的影响,比如:How will the tax affect people on low income? 这项税收会如何影响低收入人士?
critical作形容词,表示“批评的;爱挑剔的”,比如:Pat is always very critical of her son’s appearance. 帕特对儿子的外表总是很挑剔。critical还可以表示“重要的”,比如:Parental attention is critical to the child’s socialization. 父母的关注对孩子适应社会是很重要的。在本句中critical表示“危险的”,critical phenomena说的是“危险的现象”。
relatively这个副词是托福阅读词汇题所考查过的单词,表示“相对而言地”,与“comparatively”和“correspondingly”意思相近。
句子翻译
然而,令人吃惊的并不是荷兰受到销量和产量下降等危险现象的影响,而是这样的事实:这些危机在荷兰农业中出现地相对比较晚。