考研英语长难句讲解 第57期

 18. It's not surprise that Jennifer Senior's insightful, provocative¹ magazine cover story, "I love my children, I hate my life." is arousing much chatter²—nothing gets people talking like the suggestion that child rearing is anything less than a completely fulfilling. Life-enriching experience.

【分析】复合句。句子主干为 It's not surprise that...，其中 It 是形式主语，that 从句是真正的主语；主语从句的主干为...magazine cover story...is arousing much chatter，引号内的内容可视为 story 的同位语。破折号后的内容是对句子的进一步解释说明，其主干是 nothing，后跟 that 引导的从句作 suggestion 的同位语。

【译文】Jennifer Senior 撰写的《我爱我的孩子，但我讨厌我的生活》是一篇见解独到又极富挑衅性的杂志封面文章，这样一篇引起人们的广泛讨论不足为奇——没有什么观点能让人们如此有兴趣地去讨论、这种观点认为养孩子根本不是一种令人完全满意、使生活充实的经历。

【点拨】1) provocative“煽动性的，刺激性的，挑衅的”。2) rear 在本句中用作动词，是“抚养，养育”的意思。

19. Rather than concluding that children make parents either happy or miserable³. Senior suggests we need to redefine happiness: instead of thinking of it as something that can be measured by moment-to-moment joy, we should consider being happy as a past-tense condition.

【分析】复合句。主句主干为 Senior suggests...，后跟省略引导词的宾语从句 we need to redefine happiness。句首的 Rather than 结构作状语，其中包含 that 引导的宾语从句。冒号后的内容是对主句进一步解释说明，其主干是 we should consider being happy as a past-tense condition 结构作状语，其中又包含 that 引导的定语从句修饰 something。

【译文】Senior 没有断言孩子要么时父母感到幸福要么使它们感到痛苦，而是建议我们重新定义幸福：幸福不是可以用一次次开心来衡量的东西，我们应该把幸福视为过去时态。

1 provocative   

adj.挑衅的，煽动的，刺激的，挑逗的

参考例句：

• She wore a very provocative dress.她穿了一件非常性感的裙子。
• His provocative words only fueled the argument further.他的挑衅性讲话只能使争论进一步激化。

2 chatter   

vi.／n.喋喋不休；短促尖叫；(牙齿)打战

参考例句：

• Her continuous chatter vexes me.她的喋喋不休使我烦透了。
• I've had enough of their continual chatter.我已厌烦了他们喋喋不休的闲谈。

3 miserable   

adj.悲惨的，痛苦的；可怜的，糟糕的

参考例句：

• It was miserable of you to make fun of him.你取笑他，这是可耻的。
• Her past life was miserable.她过去的生活很苦。