2018考研英語長難句解析（16）

To those who are unaware that animal research was needed to produce these treatments，as well as new treatments and vaccines，animal research seems wasteful at best and cruel at worst.
    詞匯突破：
    unaware 未認(rèn)識到的，未覺察到的
    Vaccine 疫苗
    Cruel 殘忍
    結(jié)構(gòu)分析：
    句子切分：To those/who are unaware that animal research was needed to produce these treatments，as well as new treatments and vaccines，/animal research seems wasteful at best and cruel at worst.
    簡化： To A, animal research seems wasteful and cruel.
    A= those who are unaware that animal research was needed to produce these treatments，as well as new treatments and vaccines
    其他成分： who are unaware that animal research was needed to produce these treatments，as well as new treatments and vaccines (those的定語從句)
    狀語：at best 至多，充其量;頂多
    at worst adv.在最壞的情況下 (這兩個短語的翻譯是需要在語境中來 完成的)
    翻譯點(diǎn)撥：可以將任何一個較長的部分單獨(dú)成句。再翻其他部分;一般將英文的被動可改譯為中文的主動;
    參考譯文： 有些人不了解生產(chǎn)這些治療手段以及新的一些治療手段和疫苗是需要動物研究的。對于他們而言，動物研究說的好聽是浪費(fèi)，說的難聽是殘忍。