GRE的閱讀長難句實例分析

Now we must also examine the culture as we Mexican Americans have experienced it , passing from a sovereign people to compatriots with newly arriving settlers to , finally ,a conquered people a charter minority on our own land.

GRE的閱讀長難句實例分析

現在我們必須也按照我們墨西哥裔的美國人的經歷來審視這個文化,我們的經歷是從一個主權的民族變成了新來的定居者的同胞,在最終淪落成爲一個被征服的'民族在我們自己的土地上的契約的少數民族。

  難句類型:複雜修飾、插入語、固定搭配

解釋:主句中的as we Mexican Americans have experienced it 是examine的狀語,說明審視的角度;後面直至句尾的分詞結構又是experience的狀語,詳述了經歷的具體過程。就是這個分詞有些難懂,因爲我們熟知的結構是fromto沒有見過,也沒有想到過後面居然還有一個to,因此看到這個套了一個插入語的newly arriving settlers to , finally, a conquered people的時候頭腦發生混亂,不明所以、不知所措。這裏的to還是與前面的from搭配的,也就是說,原文的結構是fromtoto

意羣訓練:Now we must also examine the culture as we Mexican Americans have experienced it , passing from a sovereign people to compatriots with newly arriving settlers to , finally ,a conquered people a charter minority on our own land.