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长难句分析40题

例子1．Economists have been particularly surprised by favorable inflation figures

in Britain and the United States, since conventional measures suggest that both

economies, and especiallyAmerica's, have little productive slack.

结构分析：句子主干是Economists have been…surprised。主句用现在完成时have been…。Since

引导的是表原因的状语从句。

译文：特别让经济学家感到诧异的是，英美两国的通货膨胀带来的是良性的结果。因为传统的分析方

法表明，两国尤其是美国的经济生产,几乎没有闲置的生产资源。

2．Actually it isn't, because it assumes that there is an agreed account of human

rights, which is something the world does not have.

3．Some philosophers argue that rights exist only within a social contract, as part

of an exchange of duties and entitlements.

4．Arguing from the view that humans are different from animals in every relevant

respect, extremists of this kind think that animals lie outside the area of moral

choice.

5．When that happens, it is not a mistake: it is mankind's instinct for moral reasoning

in action, an instinct that should be encouraged rather than laughed at.

6．The Aswan Dam, for example，stopped the Nile flooding but deprived Egypt of the

fertile silt that floods left - all in return for a giant reservoir of disease which

is now so full of silt that it barely generates electricity.

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7．The trouble is that part of the recent acceleration is due to the usual rebound

that occurs at this point in a business cycle, and so is not conclusive evidence of

a revival in the underlying trend.

8．New ways of organizing the workplace all that reengineering and downsizing - are

only one contribution to the overall productivity of an economy, which is driven by

many other factors such as joint investment in equipment and machinery, new technology,

and investment in education and training.

9．His colleague, Michael Beer, says that far too many companies have applied

reengineering in a mechanistic fashion, chopping out costs without giving sufficient

thought to long term profitability.

10. Levi Strauss persuaded the court that, by selling its jeans cheaply alongside

soap powder and bananas, Tesco was destroying the image and so the value of its

brands--which could only lead to less innovation and, in the long run, would reduce

consumer choice.

11. We assumed that there were forces of attraction between molecules which varied

rapidly with the distance so that the attraction between molecules that were more

than a few ten millionths of a millimeter apart was very small but became considerable

when the molecules approached more closely.

12. This need is enshrined in the concept of sustainable development，which means

that we must，for the benefit of coming generations，leave enough environmental space

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