托福阅读长难句精讲每日一句 第32期
日期:2014-08-31 16:47

(单词翻译:单击)

32.Legend has it thatsometime toward the end of the CivilWar(1861--1865)a government train carrying oxen traveling through the northernplains of eastern Wyoming was caught in a snowstormandhad to be abandoned

(特殊结构Legend has it that…=There is a legend that…)

传说在内战(1861--1865)快结束的某个时候,一列载着牛群的政府的火车在穿过怀俄明州东部的北部平原时遇到了暴风雪,因此不得不被遗弃。

分句1:Legend has it that

分句2:sometime toward the end of theCivil War(1861--1865)a government train carrying oxen traveling through thenorthern plains of eastern Wyoming was caught in a snowstorm

分句3:and had to be abandoned

分句1是整个长句子的形式主句

分句2是分句1的具体解释,也是真正的主句。这里出现了几个分词形式,如“carrying oxen” “traveling through……”等,完全可以换成“that/which carries……”,但这里都作为修饰成分,从简分析

分句3是2的并列

1和2、3嵌套

2和3并列


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