【托福阅读】托福阅读长难句分析

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one:

But these factors do not account for（解释）the interesting question (of how there came to be such a concentration of pregnant ichthyosaurs in a particular place very close to their time of giving birth)．

主句为划线部分，主谓宾结构。括号中Of结构作定语修饰前面的名词，of后how 引导宾语从句，作of的宾语，宾语从句的基本句型为there be句型。

翻译：但这些因素并不能解释这个有趣的问题：为何在一个特定的地点会如此集中地出现即将临产的怀孕鱼龙群。

two:

Amid rumors (1. that there were prehistoric mammoths wandering around the unknown region and 2. that somewhere in its wilds was a mountain of rock salt 80 by 45 miles in extent)，the two captains set out．

难点：amid介词，在其中。amid rumors,在这些传言中，作状语。

主句：the two captains set out. 括号中1和2句均为同位语从句，解释rumor的内容。

从句1：there were prehistoric mammoths (wandering around the unknown region)

主句为there be 句型，括号中红字部分为现在分词作定语，修饰前面名词。

从句2：somewhere in its wilds was a mountain (of rock salt 80 by 45 miles in extent)

   倒装句，正常语序：a mountain was somewhere in its wilds. 括号中内容为定语，修饰mountain.

翻译：在这些传言(1. 有史前的猛犸在这一陌生的区域活动，2. 而且在这一区域的某个地方有一座巨大的盐石山，其面积达80英里长50英里宽) 中，两位上尉出发了。

three:

In the seventeenth century the organ, the clavichord，and the harpsichord became the chief instruments (1. of the keyboard group)，a supremacy (2. they maintained) until the piano supplanted them at the end of the eighteenth century．

主句为划线部分，主系表结构，became是系动词。逗号后a supremacy为chief instruments的同位语。

括号2为定语从句，修饰先行词supremacy。

翻译：17世纪时风琴、敲弦琴和拨弦琴成为键盘乐器类的主要成员，这种至高无上的地位一直由它们保持，直到18世纪末被钢琴所取代。

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