英语六级阅读真题长难句解析(1)
1. She recalls watching the ship, brightly lit, slipping into its dark grave - and into seeming nothingness, rarely mentioned for more than half a century. (2004. 阅读. 6. Text 1)
【译文】她回忆起看着轮船被火光照亮，慢慢沉入漆黑的墓穴，最后永远消失。这场悲剧半个世纪以来极少被提起。
【析句】英语句子中存在多个动词时，常大量使用分词，保证句子中只有一个谓语动词。本句中主句是She recalls watching the ship,recall是谓语动词，后面的一系列分词lit,slipping, mentioned的主语都是the ship，通过动作与the ship的主动被动关系决定使用的是现在分词还是过去分词。在现在分词slipping后跟有两个并列的into短语。 2. Now Germany's Nobel Prize-winning author Gunter Grass has revived the memory of the 9,000 dead, including more than 4,000 children - with his latest novel Crab Walk, published last month. (2004. 阅读. 6. Text 1)
【译文】如今，德国诺贝尔奖作家冈特·格拉斯用上个月最新出版的《蟹行》一书重新将这份惨烈的记忆——9000人死亡，其中有4000是儿童——在人们心中唤起。
【析句】复合句。主句Ginter Grass has revived the memory of the 9000 dead是主句，Germany's Nobel Prize-winning author作主语的同位语。including more than 4,000 children是现在分词作定语。最后，破折号后，with his latest novel published last month作伴随状语。
3. Few MacArthur Prize fellows, winners of the MacArthur Award for creative accomplishment, had good things to say about their precollegiate schooling if they had not been placed in advanced programs. (2004. 阅读. 6. Text 2)
【译文】麦克亚瑟奖是为那些做出创造性成就的人设立的。那些很早就被安排参加高级课程的获奖者很少有人对大学前的教学做出正面评价。
【析句】复合句。主句FewMacArthur Prize fellows had good things to say about their precollegiate schooling，winners of the MacArthur Award for...作主句主语...fellows的同位语。在主句后，if引导条件状语从句表明few had good things to say...的前提。
英语六级阅读真题长难句解析(2)
1. Richard Satava, program manager for advanced medical technologies, has been a driving force in bringing virtual reality to medicine, where computers create a “virtual” or simulated environment for surgeons and other medical practitioners. (2003. 阅读. 12. Text 4)
【译文】高级医学技术项目部经理理查德·塞塔瓦是将虚拟现实技术引进医学领域的先驱。在该领域，电脑为外科医生和其他医护人员创造出一种虚拟或模拟情景。
【析句】复合句。主句Richard Stava has been a driving force in...,program manager for advanced medical technologies作主语Richard Satava的同位语。主句后，where引导定语从句修饰medicine。
2. As surgeons watch a three-dimensional image of the surgery, they move instruments that are connected to a computer, which passes their movements to robotic instruments that perform the surgery. (2003. 阅读. 12. Text 4)
【译文】外科艺术一边观察手术的三维影像，一边移动与电脑相连的工具，并通过这个工具将他们的动作传递给正在操作手术的机器手。
【析句】包含多个从句的复合句。主句they move instruments,后面是that引导定语从句修饰instruments，主句前as引导时间状语从句，主句后，which passes their movements to robotic instruments作非限制性定语从句，而这一从句中，robotic instruments后又有that引导的定语从句修饰。
3. During these procedures—operations that are done through small cuts in the body in which a miniature camera and surgical tools are maneuvered—surgeons are wearing 3-D glasses for a better view.(2003. 阅读. 12. Text 4)
【译文】在这些手术过程中——通过患者身体里被操控的微型相机和手术工具进行微创手术——为了更好地观察，外科医生们使用3D眼镜。
【析句】复合句。主句During these procedures surgeons are wearing...view, 破折号中间operations是these procedures的同位语，that are done through small cuts in the body作operations的定语从句，且定语从句中the body后也有介词+which引导的定语从句修饰即in which a miniature camera and surgical tools are maneuvered。
英语六级阅读真题长难句解析(3)
1. An examination of the history of humanity suggested that man in our epoch is so different from man in previous times that it seemed unrealistic to assume that men in every age have had in common something that can be called “human nature.” (2003. 阅读. 12. Text 3)
【译文】一项针对历史上人性的研究显示，现代人与过去的人截然不同，因此，认为不同年代的人们拥有共同之处即所谓的“人性”似乎是不现实的。
【析句】复合句。主句An examination of the history of humanity suggested+宾语从句。宾语从句中，主句是man...is so different from man...that it seemed unrealistic to assume that...，包含短语so...that...,短语中that引导结果状语从句it seemed unrealistic to assume...,而assume后that引导宾语从句men had something in common,因为something后有定语从句that can be called...修饰，所以把something放在了in common之后。
2. The study of primitive peoples has discovered such a diversity of customs, values, feelings, and thoughts that many anthropologists arrived at the concept that man is born as a blank sheet of paper on which each culture writes its text. (2003. 阅读. 12. Text 3)
【译文】对原始民族的研究已经发现存在着多种多样的习俗、价值观、情感和思想，因此许多人类学家得出这样的观点：人生来是一张白纸，各族文化在上面书写自己的内容。 【析句】复合句。主句是The study of primitive peoples has discovered such a diversity of...that..., 包含短语such...tht...，that这里引导结果状语从句。在结果状语从句中，主句是many anthropologists arrived at the concept,that man is as a blank sheet of paper作the concept的同位语从句，而a blank sheet of paper后有定语从句修饰。
3. Another factor contributing to the tendency to deny the assumption of a fixed human nature was that the concept has so often been abused as a shield behind which the most inhuman acts are committed. (2003. 阅读. 12. Text 3)
【译文】还有一个因素强化了这种否认一成不变的人性存在的趋势，这个因素就是一成不变的人性这种观点经常被滥用，成为为多数残忍行为辩解的挡箭牌。
【析句】复合句。主句Another factor was that...,这里，that引导表语从句。主句主语another factor后contributing to the tendency是现在分词作定语，to deny the assumption...是不定式作定语修饰the tendency。而在表语从句中，主句the concept has
so often been abused as a shiled，a shiled后有which引导的定语从句修饰。
英语六级阅读真题长难句解析(4)
1. At some point, while researchers work on figuring out where the truth lies, it just makes sense to say the potential benefit outweighs the cost. (2003. 阅读. 12. Text 1)
【译文】在某种程度上，尽管研究者们仍在努力研究意图发现维他命所起效果的真相，但是维他命对人体可能有的益处物超所值这种说法是有道理的。
【析句】复合句。主句it makes sense to say, 后面是省略了that的宾语从句the potential benefit outweighs the cost.主句前，while引导让步状语从句，figuring out后where the truth lies作宾语从句。
2. It’s been proved to limit the number of defects in embryos, and a recent trial found that folate in combination with vitamin B 12 and a form of B6 also decreases the re-blockage of arteries after surgical repair. (2003. 阅读. 12. Text 1)
【译文】维他命已被证明能够减少胚胎的缺陷，并且最新试验证明叶酸和维生素B12以及B16的一种一起服用也能降低手术修复后动脉血管堵塞的可能性。
【析句】主句由and连接两个并列句，首先是It's been proved to limit the number of defects in embryos, it作形式主语，真正的主语是后面的不定式结构，然后是a recent trial found+宾语从句that folate in combination with...decreases the re-blockage of..., 注意in combination with用在句子中，谓语动词的单复数看前面的名词。 3. There were various views about what constitutes it, but there was agreement that such an essence exists—that is to say, that there is something by virtue of which man is man. (2003. 阅读. 12. Text 3)
【译文】关于人性是由什么组成的，人们众说纷纭，但是人们一致同意，人性中存在着某种本质，正是这种本质特性是人之所以为人的原因。
【析句】主句由but连接的两个成转折关系的并列句构成。前句是There were various views about+宾语从句，简单句。后句主句there was agreement, that such an essence exists，that there is something同作agreement的同位语从句，两个并列的同位语从句间，that is to say作插入语。by virtue of which man is man在后一同位语从句中作定语从句修饰something.
英语六级阅读真题长难句解析(5)
1. Connected to a wave-front sensor that tracks and measures the course of a laser beam into the eye and back, the aluminum mirror detects the deficiencies of the cornea, the transparent protective layer covering the lens of the human eye. (2003. 阅读. 6. Text 4)
【译文】通过与跟踪并测量激光射入眼中并反射回来的路径的波前感受器相连，铝制镜片能够检测到眼角膜的缺陷，眼角膜是覆盖在眼球上一层透明的起保护作用的薄膜。 【析句】主句the alumium mirror detects the deficiencies of the cornea,主句后，the transpartent protective layer...作the cornea的同位语短语，其中covering the lens of the human eye是现在分词作定语修饰the transparent...layer, 而主句前，connected to a wave-front sensor...是过去分词作主句主语the aluminum的定语，而a wave-front sensor后有that引导的定语从句修饰。
2. The highly precise data from the two instruments - which, Bille hopes, will one day be found at the opticians all over the world - serve as a basis for the production of completely individualized contact lenses that correct and enhance the wearer's vision. (2003. 阅读. 6. Text 4)
【译文】比利希望，未来这两种仪器收集到的高度精确的数据能为全世界的眼镜商所用，为生产完全个性化且能矫正和提高佩戴者视力的隐形眼镜打下基础。
【析句】主句The highly precise data serve as basis for the production o...contact lenses,破折号后，which will one day be found at the opticians...作定语从句修饰the two instruments, 同时也作Bille hopes的宾语从句。而主句中the wearer's...contact lenses后有that引导的定语从句修饰。
3. By day, Bille's contact lenses will focus rays of light so accurately on the retina that the image of a small leaf or the outline of a far distant tree will be formed with a sharpness that surpasses that of conventional vision aids by almost half a diopter. (2003. 阅读. 6. Text 4)
【译文】白天，比利发明的隐形眼镜能够将光线精确地汇聚到视网膜上，即使是一枚小树叶，或是远处树的轮廓也能在眼中形成清晰的图像，而且这种清晰度要比佩戴传统的眼镜高出约半个屈光度。
【析句】主句Bille's contact lenses will focus rays of light so accurately on the retina that the image of...will be formed with a sharpness,主句的主干结构是