3. Hardy's weakness derived from his apparent inability to control the comings and goings of these divergent impulses and from his unwillingness to cultivate and sustain the energetic and risky ones. (3)
難句類型:復(fù)雜修飾、省略、抽象詞
譯文:哈代的缺陷一方面緣起于他的某種明顯的無能,無法控制好那結(jié)不盡相同的創(chuàng)作沖動(dòng)的穿梭往來;另一方面緣起于他不愿意去培養(yǎng)和維持那些富于生機(jī)活力和風(fēng)險(xiǎn)性強(qiáng)的創(chuàng)作沖動(dòng)。
解釋:介詞from的賓語有兩個(gè)并列的部分,由and所連接,在and之后的第二個(gè)from前,省略了前面一樣的謂語動(dòng)詞derive。本句之所以難,有兩個(gè)原因,一是derived from 后面的成分太長,初學(xué)者難以一下子看下來;二是作為一篇文科文章,用詞抽象,難以迅速理解。
意群訓(xùn)練: Hardy's weakenssderived from his apparent inability to control the comings and goings of these divergentimpulses and from his unwillingness to cultivate and sustain the energyetic and risky ones.
4. Virginia Woolf's provocative statement about her intentions in writing Mrs. Dalloway has regularly been ignored by the critics,since it highlights an aspect of her literary interests very different from the traditional picture of the "poetic" novelist concerned with examining states of reverie and vision and with following the intricate pathways of individual consciousness. (5)
難句類型:復(fù)雜修飾、省略、抽象詞
譯文:弗吉尼亞.伍爾夫(Virginia Woolf)在創(chuàng)作《黛洛維夫人》(Mrs. Dalloway)時(shí)有關(guān)其創(chuàng)作意圖的這番發(fā)人深思的陳述,迄今為止一貫為文學(xué)評(píng)論家們所忽略,因?yàn)樗怀龇从沉怂T多文學(xué)興趣中某一方面,而這一方面則與人們對(duì)"詩性"小說家(poetic novelist)所形成的傳統(tǒng)見解大相徑庭。所謂的"詩性"小說家,所關(guān)注的是審視想入非非和白日夢幻的諸般狀態(tài),并致力于追尋個(gè)體意識(shí)的通幽曲徑。
解釋:本句逗號(hào)以前只有復(fù)雜修飾的長主語有些難,但總的來講比較好懂,since引導(dǎo)的原因狀語從句較難。
A、 since之后的it指前面的statement,highlight的賓語an aspect之后有兩個(gè)修飾成分,一個(gè)是of her literary interests, 另一個(gè)是以that引導(dǎo)的定語從句that is very different from the traditional picture of the poetic novelist,都是修飾an aspect的。Novelist后面又有由and 連接的兩個(gè)介詞結(jié)構(gòu)concerned with doing 修飾novelist.
B、句中有兩處省略,一是在her literary interests that is very different from當(dāng)中,修飾interests的定語從句中引導(dǎo)詞+be that is 一起省略了。第二處在and之后,由于concerned with與前面的concerned with重復(fù),所以concerned被省略。
C、 本句另外一個(gè)難懂的地方,就是使用了大量的抽象詞。這是文學(xué)市評(píng)論題材的文章的一個(gè)特點(diǎn)。
Virginia Woolf's provocative statement about her intentions in writing Mrs. Dalloway has regularly been ignored by the critics,since it highlights an aspect of her literary interests very different from the traditional picture of the "poetic" novelist concerned with examining states of reverie and vision and with following the intricate pathways of individual consciousness.
5. As she put it in The Common Reader , "It is safe to say that not a single law has been framed or one stone set upon another because of anything Chaucer said or wrote ; and yet , as we read him , we are absorbing morality at every pore ."(5-)
抽象詞、抽象詞組、比喻
就像她在《致普通讀者》一書中所表達(dá)的那樣,“盡管可以毫無疑問的說,沒有任何法律被指定出來,也沒有任何高樓大廈被建立起來是因?yàn)閱疼耪f了什么或者寫了什么;然而,當(dāng)我們讀它的書的時(shí)候,我們身上每一個(gè)毛孔都充滿了道德”
這句話不但用了詞抽象,還用了比喻的修辭手法。是指沒有因?yàn)閱疼诺难哉摱a(chǎn)生任何實(shí)際的行為規(guī)則或政治機(jī)構(gòu),但我們受其影響之深,以及其影響力之大。
As she put it in The Common Reader , "It is safe to say that not a single law has been framed or one stone set upon another because of anything Chaucer said or wrote ; and yet , as we read him , we are absorbing morality at every pore ."
難句類型:復(fù)雜修飾、省略、抽象詞
譯文:哈代的缺陷一方面緣起于他的某種明顯的無能,無法控制好那結(jié)不盡相同的創(chuàng)作沖動(dòng)的穿梭往來;另一方面緣起于他不愿意去培養(yǎng)和維持那些富于生機(jī)活力和風(fēng)險(xiǎn)性強(qiáng)的創(chuàng)作沖動(dòng)。
解釋:介詞from的賓語有兩個(gè)并列的部分,由and所連接,在and之后的第二個(gè)from前,省略了前面一樣的謂語動(dòng)詞derive。本句之所以難,有兩個(gè)原因,一是derived from 后面的成分太長,初學(xué)者難以一下子看下來;二是作為一篇文科文章,用詞抽象,難以迅速理解。
意群訓(xùn)練: Hardy's weakenssderived from his apparent inability to control the comings and goings of these divergentimpulses and from his unwillingness to cultivate and sustain the energyetic and risky ones.
4. Virginia Woolf's provocative statement about her intentions in writing Mrs. Dalloway has regularly been ignored by the critics,since it highlights an aspect of her literary interests very different from the traditional picture of the "poetic" novelist concerned with examining states of reverie and vision and with following the intricate pathways of individual consciousness. (5)
難句類型:復(fù)雜修飾、省略、抽象詞
譯文:弗吉尼亞.伍爾夫(Virginia Woolf)在創(chuàng)作《黛洛維夫人》(Mrs. Dalloway)時(shí)有關(guān)其創(chuàng)作意圖的這番發(fā)人深思的陳述,迄今為止一貫為文學(xué)評(píng)論家們所忽略,因?yàn)樗怀龇从沉怂T多文學(xué)興趣中某一方面,而這一方面則與人們對(duì)"詩性"小說家(poetic novelist)所形成的傳統(tǒng)見解大相徑庭。所謂的"詩性"小說家,所關(guān)注的是審視想入非非和白日夢幻的諸般狀態(tài),并致力于追尋個(gè)體意識(shí)的通幽曲徑。
解釋:本句逗號(hào)以前只有復(fù)雜修飾的長主語有些難,但總的來講比較好懂,since引導(dǎo)的原因狀語從句較難。
A、 since之后的it指前面的statement,highlight的賓語an aspect之后有兩個(gè)修飾成分,一個(gè)是of her literary interests, 另一個(gè)是以that引導(dǎo)的定語從句that is very different from the traditional picture of the poetic novelist,都是修飾an aspect的。Novelist后面又有由and 連接的兩個(gè)介詞結(jié)構(gòu)concerned with doing 修飾novelist.
B、句中有兩處省略,一是在her literary interests that is very different from當(dāng)中,修飾interests的定語從句中引導(dǎo)詞+be that is 一起省略了。第二處在and之后,由于concerned with與前面的concerned with重復(fù),所以concerned被省略。
C、 本句另外一個(gè)難懂的地方,就是使用了大量的抽象詞。這是文學(xué)市評(píng)論題材的文章的一個(gè)特點(diǎn)。
Virginia Woolf's provocative statement about her intentions in writing Mrs. Dalloway has regularly been ignored by the critics,since it highlights an aspect of her literary interests very different from the traditional picture of the "poetic" novelist concerned with examining states of reverie and vision and with following the intricate pathways of individual consciousness.
5. As she put it in The Common Reader , "It is safe to say that not a single law has been framed or one stone set upon another because of anything Chaucer said or wrote ; and yet , as we read him , we are absorbing morality at every pore ."(5-)
抽象詞、抽象詞組、比喻
就像她在《致普通讀者》一書中所表達(dá)的那樣,“盡管可以毫無疑問的說,沒有任何法律被指定出來,也沒有任何高樓大廈被建立起來是因?yàn)閱疼耪f了什么或者寫了什么;然而,當(dāng)我們讀它的書的時(shí)候,我們身上每一個(gè)毛孔都充滿了道德”
這句話不但用了詞抽象,還用了比喻的修辭手法。是指沒有因?yàn)閱疼诺难哉摱a(chǎn)生任何實(shí)際的行為規(guī)則或政治機(jī)構(gòu),但我們受其影響之深,以及其影響力之大。
As she put it in The Common Reader , "It is safe to say that not a single law has been framed or one stone set upon another because of anything Chaucer said or wrote ; and yet , as we read him , we are absorbing morality at every pore ."

