2016年托福閱讀長難句分析(10)

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    托福閱讀長難句
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    However, what is astonishing about this is not that Dutch agriculture was affected by critical phenomena such as a decrease in sales and production, but the fact that the crisis appeared only relatively late in Dutch agriculture. (TPO 23 Seventeenth-Century Dutch Agriculture)
    >>>>句子理解
    本句的主語是what is astonishing about this的主語從句。第一個(gè)that引導(dǎo)的從句在be動(dòng)詞后,叫作表語從句,第二個(gè)that引導(dǎo)的從句是同位語從句,解釋說明the fact。本句還有一個(gè)重要閱讀結(jié)構(gòu)是A is not B,but C,這個(gè)結(jié)構(gòu)的閱讀重點(diǎn)靠后,也就是針對(duì)A的重點(diǎn)是C后面的內(nèi)容,即the fact that the crisis appeared only relatively late in Dutch agriculture。
    >>>>詞匯總結(jié)
    astonishing作形容詞,表示“令人吃驚的”,比如:an astonishing achievement 驚人的成就。
    be affected by表示“受到……的影響”,可以借鑒到寫作中,通常表示受到不太好事情的影響,比如:How will the tax affect people on low income? 這項(xiàng)稅收會(huì)如何影響低收入人士?
    critical作形容詞,表示“批評(píng)的;愛挑剔的”,比如:Pat is always very critical of her son’s appearance. 帕特對(duì)兒子的外表總是很挑剔。critical還可以表示“重要的”,比如:Parental attention is critical to the child’s socialization. 父母的關(guān)注對(duì)孩子適應(yīng)社會(huì)是很重要的。在本句中critical表示“危險(xiǎn)的”,critical phenomena說的是“危險(xiǎn)的現(xiàn)象”。
    relatively這個(gè)副詞是托福閱讀詞匯題所考查過的單詞,表示“相對(duì)而言地”,與“comparatively”和“correspondingly”意思相近。
    >>>>句子翻譯
    然而,令人吃驚的并不是荷蘭受到銷量和產(chǎn)量下降等危險(xiǎn)現(xiàn)象的影響,而是這樣的事實(shí):這些危機(jī)在荷蘭農(nóng)業(yè)中出現(xiàn)地相對(duì)比較晚。