2012新GRE閱讀技巧 省略與抽象詞

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These questions are political in the sense that the debate over them will inevitably be less an exploration of abstract matters in a spirit of disinterested inquiry than an academic power struggle in which the careers and professional fortunes of many women scholars-only now entering the academic profession in substantial numbers-will be at stake,and with them the chances for a distinctive contribution to humanistic understanding,a contribution that might be an important influence against sexism in our society. 
    這些問題之所以帶有政治性質(zhì),因為不可避免地,圍繞這些問題展開的爭論與其說是一種在客觀冷靜科研精神指導(dǎo)下對抽象問題的探索,倒不如說是一種學(xué)術(shù)上的權(quán)力斗爭。在此斗爭中,許多女學(xué)者中——只是在現(xiàn)在才開始以眾多的人數(shù)進入學(xué)術(shù)界——的學(xué)術(shù)生涯和職業(yè)命運將處于存亡攸關(guān)的危急關(guān)頭,與她們相伴隨的是對人文理解作出一種獨特貢獻的機遇,這一貢獻則很有可能成為消除我們社會中所存在的性別主義的一股重要影響。
    難句類型:復(fù)雜修飾、插入語、省略、抽象詞
    解釋:相信有不少同學(xué)在閱讀現(xiàn)場看到這個長達10行,不算標點就有81個單詞的龐然大句的時候,不禁心為之顫、色為之變、氣為之短、膽為之寒。曾經(jīng)有人把GRE戲稱為God Read English,我們果然在這個句子中看到了“天書”的風(fēng)采。
    經(jīng)筆者認真的統(tǒng)計,本句是一切英語考試中所出現(xiàn)的最長的句子。而值得一提的是,筆者自己當(dāng)初在模考中讀到此處時,卻根本沒有感覺到這個句子的長短,只是在模考結(jié)束以后回頭看文章的時候,才發(fā)覺這個文章中的第三段整個就是一句話。其原因在于筆者當(dāng)時已經(jīng)對GRE考試中出現(xiàn)的閱讀難句做過認真的、系統(tǒng)的訓(xùn)練,而經(jīng)過難句訓(xùn)練的人在讀文章的時候、既不看句子的長短,也不想句子的結(jié)構(gòu),只看句子的意思。其道理在于,他讀過太多遍的長句子,以至于對句子的長度早已麻木,而且也太熟悉這些句子的語法結(jié)構(gòu),不用想就知道這些結(jié)構(gòu)所表達的含義,這才是我們訓(xùn)練難句的最終目的。
    本句的主句極短,難就難在從in the sense that開始到整句話結(jié)束為止的狀語上。That引導(dǎo)的從句作sense的同位語,從句中的主架構(gòu)還是前面曾經(jīng)講過的less…than…的結(jié)構(gòu),譯成“與其說是…還不如說是”and后面是一個獨立的介詞結(jié)構(gòu),作者用它來強調(diào)女評論家的重要性??梢岳斫獬勺髡咴趙ith them are the chances.中省略了系動詞are.
    意群訓(xùn)練:These questions are political in the sense that the debate over them will inevitably be less an exploration of abstract matters in a spirit of disinterested inquiry than an academic power struggle in which the careers and professional fortunes of many women scholars-only now entering the academic profession in substantial numbers-will be at stake,and with them the chances for a distinctive contribution to humanistic understanding,a contribution that might be an important influence against sexism in our society.