2012新GRE閱讀技巧 復雜修飾、插入語、倒裝、抽象詞

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Such philosophical concerns as the mind-body problem or,more generally,the nature of human knowledge they believe,are basic human questions whose tentative philosophical solutions have served as the necessary foundations on which all other intellectual speculation has rested.
    他們相信,諸如靈與肉的問題,或更普遍而言,人類知識的性質等此類哲學關注,均是一些基本的人類問題,其探索性的哲學答案已構成一個必要的基礎,其它所有的智力思辯均賴以建立其上。
    難句類型:復雜修飾、插入語、倒裝、抽象詞
    解釋:本篇文章所討論的主題就是哲學的起源問題,因此在這篇文章中出現大量的抽象詞,是理所當然的。
    然而本句的開始的結構比較特殊,出現了一個倒裝結構,正常的語序應該是:They believe that such philosophical concerns as the mind-body problem or, more generrally, the nature of human knowledge, are basic human question…。筆者說此結構特殊,并不是因為我們司空見慣了的倒裝本身,而是因為從句子的結構來講,此倒裝毫無必要,并無頭重腳輕之虞。作者之所以這樣寫,一是為了強調句首的、作為文章主題的哲學,二是為了使句式有所變化,不至于過分單一,三是為了為難一下考生,看看讀者看懂了沒有,后面就對這句話出了一道題。
    意群訓練:Such philosophical concerns as the mind-body problem or,more generally,the nature of human knowledge they believe,are basic human questions whose tentative philosophical solutions have served as the necessary foundations on which all other intellectual speculation has rested.