考研英语疑难长句200句WORD版.doc

考研英语疑难长句解析 1. Punishment is based on the idea that many people have a barely controlled desire to act in forbidden ways. 惩罚基于这样一种理念：许多人具有难以约束的欲望，想越轨行事。 2. The main problem is not the first offender or the petty thief but the repeated offender who commits increasingly serious crimes. 主要的问题不是来自于初犯者或小偷小摸，而是来自于犯罪行为越来越严重的那些惯犯。 3. Rehabilitation of criminals could probably be improved greatly if experts could provide the right kind of program for different types of offenders. 假如专家们能针对不同的罪犯提供合适的改造方案，也许能大大地改进对罪犯的改造。 4. In the early 1990s, there were about 1,300,000 criminals in U.S. city, county, state, and federal correctional institutions, and about 500,000 more were out on parole. 在20世纪90年代初，在美国各城市、县、州和联邦监狱接受改造的罪犯大约有130万人，其中有50万为狱外假释人员。 5. Society spent more than $15 billion to operate prisons and related institutions yearly, but only a small part of this sum went to provide treatment. 社会每年花150亿美元来管理监狱和其他相关机构，但是只有其中一小部分用于改造罪犯。 6. Capital punishments have been used more frequently since the U.S. Supreme Court lifted a death penalty ban in 1976. 在1976年，美国最高法院取缔了禁止死刑的规定，此后，死刑的使用更加频繁。 7. More than 80 percent of all households own passenger cars or light trucks and each of these is driven an average of more than 11,000 miles each year. 超过80%的家庭拥有小轿车或轻型卡车，每辆车每年平均行驶1.1万英里。 8. Almost one half of fatally injured drivers have a blood alcohol concentration (BAC) of 0.1 percent or higher. 在使驾车人致命的车祸中，几乎有一半的驾驶员血液中酒精含量（简称BAC）达到或超过0.1%。 9. For the average adult, over five ounces of 80 proof spirits would have to be consumed over a short period of time to attain these levels. 对一般的成人来说，在短期内喝超过5盎司标准度数的酒，才能达到这种含量。 10. Based on the observation that excessive consumption correlates with the total alcohol consumption of a country’s population, it has been suggested that higher taxes on alcohol would reduce both. 人们注意到，过量饮酒与一个国家人口的总饮酒量相关，基于此，有人提出：对酒征收高税将减少这两类人的数量。 11. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration estimates, however, that even with increased arrests, there are ab