2006年GMAT考試難句詳解(4)

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9. This preference for exogamy,Gutman suggests, may have derived from West African rules governing marriage,which,though they differed from one tribal group to another,all involved some kind of prohibition against unions with close kin. (3+)
    難句類型:復(fù)雜修飾、插入語(yǔ)
    譯文:古特曼表示,這種對(duì)于外部通婚的偏愛很有可能緣起于西部非洲制約著婚姻的規(guī)定,盡管這些規(guī)定在一個(gè)和另一個(gè)部落群體之間不盡相同,但都涉及到某種對(duì)近親聯(lián)姻(union with close kin)的禁止。
    解釋:本句有兩個(gè)插入語(yǔ),第一個(gè)插入語(yǔ)Gutman suggests割裂了主句的主語(yǔ)和謂語(yǔ)。West African rules后跟著兩個(gè)修飾成分,第一個(gè)是分詞修飾(governing marriage), 第二個(gè)是以which引導(dǎo)的非限定性定語(yǔ)從句,從句中出現(xiàn)了第二個(gè)插入語(yǔ)though they differed from one tribal group to another,又割裂了從句引導(dǎo)詞與謂語(yǔ)之間的聯(lián)系。
    意群訓(xùn)練:This preference for exogamy,Gutman suggests, may have derived from West African rules governing marriage,which,though they differed from one tribal group to another,all involved some kind of prohibition against unions with close kin.
    10. His thesis works relatively well when applied to discrimination against Blacks in the United States,but his definition of racial prejudice as "racially-based negative prejudgments against a group generally accepted as a race in any given region of ethnic competition," can be interpreted as also including hostility toward such ethnic groups as the Chinese in California and the Jews in medieval Europe. (4+)
    難句類型:復(fù)雜修飾、插入語(yǔ)、抽象詞
    譯文:該社會(huì)學(xué)家的命題當(dāng)被應(yīng)用于針對(duì)美國(guó)黑人的歧視時(shí),相對(duì)而言尚能適用,但他對(duì)種族偏見所下的定義——即"以種族為基礎(chǔ)的、針對(duì)某個(gè)群體的消級(jí)的先入之見,而該群體在任何特定的種族競(jìng)爭(zhēng)地區(qū)則被普遍認(rèn)作一種族"——可被理解成同樣也襄括了針對(duì)加利福尼亞州的中國(guó)人以及中世紀(jì)的*人這樣一些種族群體的敵視態(tài)度。
    解釋:本句長(zhǎng)度驚人,插入部分比較長(zhǎng),再加上不乏抽象詞,所以較為難懂,在表示轉(zhuǎn)折的后半個(gè)分鐘中,長(zhǎng)長(zhǎng)的插入語(yǔ)as raciallybased negative prejudgments against a group generally accepted as a race in any given region of thnic competition作為主語(yǔ)his definition of racial prejudice的同位語(yǔ),使分句中的主謂相隔千山萬(wàn)水。除此之外,本句用詞抽象,語(yǔ)義難以理解,對(duì)讀者的詞匯功底要求較高??荚嚞F(xiàn)場(chǎng)如無(wú)法讀懂,宜用合理化原則中的取非讀法,but之前的分句說(shuō)的是其論點(diǎn)對(duì)美國(guó)黑人的種族歧視是較為管用,轉(zhuǎn)折后的內(nèi)容就應(yīng)該說(shuō)其理論對(duì)華人和*人相對(duì)無(wú)用。