高考长难句经典练习3

高考长难句经典练习3

长难句1：Growing plants indoors has always been taken up as a popular hobby.

译文：室内种植植物一直是人们喜爱从事的业余爱好。

分析：动名词短语作主语。

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take up  对……产生兴趣，(为了消遣) 从事……

长难句2：Their low-water, low-maintenance requirements provide many benefits for indoor gardeners and make them especially appeal to people on the go.

译文：它们(多肉植物) 不喜水，易于养护的特性给室内园丁带来了很多便利，这使得它们尤其受到繁忙人士的喜爱。

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provide manybenefits for：为……提供许多益处

appeal to：吸引；attract/interest

on the go：忙碌的

长难句3：If anyone had told me three years ago that I would be spending most of my weekends camping, I would have laughed heartily.

译文：三年前如果有人告诉我以后我大部分的周末都会在露营，我会放声大笑。

分析：该句是一个虚拟条件句。if引导的虚拟条件句，表示与过去事实相反的假设。(虚拟语气影响句意理解)

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laugh heartily：开怀大笑

长难句4：This brief visit with Mother Nature cost me two days off from work, recovering from a bad case of sunburn and the doctor’s bill for my son’s food poisoning.

译文：这次对大自然的短暂造访害我请了两天假，以使严重晒伤的皮肤得以康复，同时，我还要支付儿子食物中毒的医疗费。

分析：recovering ... 为现在分词短语作状语，表示伴随情况或附加说明。

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a brief visit：短期旅行

recover from：从……中恢复过来

a bad case of：严重的……病(由基本义“例子”到衍生义“病例”)

food poisoning：食物中毒

长难句5：There was not one night that I don’t remember mom reading me a story book by my bedside.

译文：在我的记忆里，没有一个夜晚，妈妈不坐在床边给我读故事的。

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bedside: 床边

长难句6：It wasn’tuntil I learned about Thomas Edison, though, that I really became excited about inventing.

译文：不过，直到我了解了托马斯·爱迪生，我才真正地热爱发明了。

分析：这是一个强调句，其句型为It is / was not until …that …，意为“直到……才……”。

长难句7：His guiding hands, combined with my interest in inventing, led me to become an engineer and an inventor.

译文：他对我的指导，加之我对发明的兴趣，使我成为一名工程师和发明家。

分析：combined with my interest in inventing 为过去分词短语作非限制性定语，修饰hands，句子主干是Hisguiding hands led me to …要学会句式结构，进行仿写。

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a guiding hand：指导

lead sb to do：促使某人做某事