2018年考研英語(yǔ)長(zhǎng)難句分析每日一句(762)

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If you were to examine the birth certificates ofevery soccer player in 2006's World Cuptournament, you would most likely find anoteworthy quirk:elite soccer players are mostlikely to have been born in the earlier months of theyear than in the later months.
    【分析】復(fù)合句。if引導(dǎo)的條件句用了虛擬語(yǔ)氣 (were);主句中冒號(hào)后的內(nèi)容是對(duì)quirk的補(bǔ)充說(shuō)明。
    【譯文】如果仔細(xì)查看一下2006年世界杯聯(lián)賽每個(gè)足球運(yùn)動(dòng)員的出生證明,你很可能會(huì)發(fā)現(xiàn)一個(gè)值得注意的奇怪現(xiàn)象:出色的足球運(yùn)動(dòng)員大都在一年的頭幾個(gè)月出生而不是后幾個(gè)月。
    【點(diǎn)撥】certificate意為“證書(shū);證明書(shū);憑證”,birth certificate意為“出生證”。