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1. Most people abhor cruelty to animals.
2. The pain-killer abated his splitting headache.
3. The mountain village is adjacent to a highway.
4. A good student does not need to be admonished about being absent too much.
5. People are much better informed since the advent of television.
6. A good friend will not desert you in time of adversity.
7. The French and Italian languages have many affinities with each other.
8. The young man spends money like water in that he comes from an affluent family.
9. She didn't mention Mr Smith by name, but it was clear she was alluding to him.
10. The little restaurant has a pleasant ambience.
11. Kate Chopin, a great American writer, maintains an ambivalent attitude towards mother-women in her fiction.
12. Parks and a theater are just some of the town's local amenities.
13. Her whole being was filled with a vague anguish, which was like a shadow, like a mist passing across her soul's summer day.
14. The army annihilated the enemy.
15. The people of that tribe are dressed in strange apparel.
16. The aroma of lilacs lingers about the garden.
17. He finds it very difficult to articulate his distress.
18. The police are trying to ascertain exactly who was at the party.
19. The luxurious furniture attests to the family's wealth.
20. His audacious action turned out to be a disaster.
21. He received an avalanche of thank letters.
22. Hester Prynne wears a letter A on her bosom that serves as a badge of shame.
23. Christians believe that God is benevolent.
24. The exotic bazaar seems quite bizarre to me.
25. Brevity is the soul of writing.
26. The drowsing boy didn't even browse the book.
27. The husband failed to catch his wife's capricious mind.
28. The First World War served as a catalyst for major social changes in Europe.
29. Nuclear explosion can be a fatal catastrophe that will cause heavy loss of life.
30. Professor Smith possesses a charisma. That's why he is so popular with his students.
31. The project is not compatible with the company's long-term plans.
32. The two judges concurred with each other on the ruling.
33. His military service was deferred until he finished college.
34. It's hard to cope with that old cranky/eccentric old man.
35. Overeating has made him corpulent/obese.
36. A series of hard experiences has made the diffident man become confident again.
37. He narrated in his book about his doleful experiences in war.
38. Marriage rolled on and their love gradually dwindled away.
39. Overhearing is quite different from eavesdropping.
40. He heard an eerie sound while crossing a dark wood at night.
41. His large hear melted their enmity and hatred.
42. It's an erudite book on the history of the Roman Empire.
43. It's advisable that you eschew bad company and alcoholic drinks.
44. The girl was extremely exasperated at her boyfriend's forgetting her birthday.
45. I could not understand her evasive answer.
46. As she had forgotten her keys, she got into the house by the simple expedient of climbing through a window.
47. He flunked the exam again.
48. His fallacious arguments cannot hold water.
49. Her merits are extolled in the newspaper.
50. Peter handled the meeting with great finesse.
1. He quickly found that children as young as four months would learn to turn their heads to right or left if the movement “switched on”a display of lights—and indeed that they were capable of learning quite complex turns to bring about this result, for instance, two left or two right, or even to make as many three turns to one side.(1993. 閱讀. Text 2)
【譯文】他很快發現，四個月大的嬰兒也能學會左右轉頭——如果之後接通光源，他們也的確能學會很複雜的轉頭動作，比如，左轉兩次或者右轉兩次，甚至能連續三次轉向一側。
【析句】多重複合句，主句He quickly found,再按範圍大小看從句，首先是found後兩個並列的引導的賓語從句，that children would learn……,and that they were capable of……, 中間是if引導條件狀語從句if the movement switched……。
2. Papousek's light display was placed directly in front of the babies and he made the interesting observation that sometimes they would not turn back to watch the lights closely although they would “smile and bubble” when the display came on. (1993. 閱讀. Text 2)
【譯文】巴帕薩克將光源放置在嬰兒的正前方，然後他觀察到一個有趣的現象：嬰兒們有時會“咯咯笑着吐泡泡”，但他們不會轉過頭來緊盯着光源。
【析句】多重複合句，主句爲Papousek's light display was placed……babies and he made the interesting observation,由兩個並列的簡單句構成，observation後that引導同位語從句，同位語從句中，主句they would not turn back……，although they would smile and bubble爲讓步狀語從句，when引導時間狀語從句。
3. Papousek concluded that it was not primarily the sight of the lights which pleased them, it was the success they were achieving in solving the problem, in mastering the skill, and that there exists a fundamental human urge to make sense of the world and bring it under intentional control. (1993. 閱讀. Text 2)
【譯文】巴帕薩克推斷，讓嬰兒們感到愉悅的原因，根本不是看到燈光，而是解決問題、掌握技巧的成功，因而斷定人類具有認識世界和有意識控制世界的基本慾望。
