新视角研究生英语第四单元句子分析.pptVIP

Sentence structure SENTENCE STRUCTURE The idea ’happiness’, to be sure, will not sit still for easy definition: the best one can do is to try to set some extremes to the idea and then work in toward the middle. 1st 句法分析: 主干:The idea …will not… The best…is to… to be sure 是插入语 句子翻译:诚然，给“幸福”这一概念下定义远非易事：最好是尽量为这一概念确立一些极限，然后将他们折中。 2nd Posssession for its own sake or in competiton with the rest of the neighborhood would have been Thoureau’s idea of the low levels. 句子结构: Possession…would have been… 句中的 for its own sake 和 in the competition with…并列修饰 possession for its own sake 为了sb’s自身的利益 句子翻译: 梭罗所理解的“低层次”，即为自己而去拥有，或与邻里明争暗斗而致的拥有。 3rd The active discipline of heightening one’s perception of what is enduring in nature would havebeen his idea of the high. 句子结构:The active discipline(主) of heightening one’s perception(定语) of what is enduring in nature (定语) would have been(系) his idea of the high(表). heighten [hait?n] vt. 提高；加强；增高；使更显著 perception [p?‘sep??n] n. 感觉；知觉；洞察力；看法 enduring [in‘dju?ri?] adj. 持久的 句子翻译: 他心目中的“高层次”，则是这样一种积极的人生戒律，即要使自己对自己界永恒之物的感悟臻于完美。 4th What the Founding Fathers declared for us as inherent right,we should do well to remember, was not happiness but the pursuit of happiness. 句子结构: What the Founding Fathers declared for us as inherent right (what引导的主语从句),we should do well to remember (插入语) ,was not happiness but the pursuit of happiness. 系 表 句子翻译: 我们应该牢记：开国元勋们为我们所宣布的与生俱来的权利，不是享受幸福而是追求幸福。 6th What they might have underlined, could they have forseen the happiness market , is the cardinal fact that happiness is in the pursuit itself,in the meaningful pursuit of what is life-engaging and life-revealing, which is to say, in the idea of becoming. 句子结构: (What引导的主语从句) is …. could they …是插入语 that 引导定语从句 修饰 fact which is to say 也是插入语 句子翻译: 假如他们当初预见到现在出现的幸福市场，他们就会强调指出这样一个基本事实：幸福在于为之奋斗的过程，在于我们终生为之努力并从中获得启迪的有意义的追求，也就是说在于追求。 5th A nation is not measured by what it possesses or wants to posse