2018考研英語長難句分析每日一句(744)

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"Instead of intimate shops catering to a knowledgeable elite," these were stores "anyone could enter, regardless of class or background."
    【分析】復合句。句子主干為these were stores。介詞結(jié)構(gòu) instead of …作狀語,其中 catering to...作 intimate shops的后置定語;anyone could…又是省略引導詞的定語從句修飾stores。
    【譯文】與那些只滿足有品位的精英人士需求的精品店鋪不同,這些商店“無論階層背景,人人皆可踏足其間。
    【點撥】intimate常用意為“親密的,密切的”,本句中意為“精致的,優(yōu)雅的”。