長(zhǎng)難句練習(xí)：
1.They were fined a total of just over £116 million as part of a leniency deal offered by the watchdog to companies that owned up quickly to anti-competitive behaviour.
2.The National Consumer Council gave warning that the admissions would dent consumer confidence in leading high street names and that people would become sceptical of their claims.
3.But then， in 1963， Sylvia Plath， a young American poet whom he had first met at Cambridge University in 1956， and who became his wife in the summer of that year， committed suicide.
長(zhǎng)難句解析：
1.主體句式：They were fined a total of just over £116 million as part of a leniency deal…
結(jié)構(gòu)分析： 這是一個(gè)復(fù)合句，其成分比較復(fù)雜。offered by the watchdog to companies作為一個(gè)分詞短語(yǔ)來(lái)修飾前面的deal， 而后面that引導(dǎo)的定語(yǔ)從句又修飾companies。
句子譯文：他們總共的罰金只有差不多一億一千六百萬(wàn)，這是監(jiān)察部門(mén)對(duì)積極坦白反競(jìng)爭(zhēng)行為公司的一種寬大處理。
2.主體句式： The National Consumer Council gave warning…
結(jié)構(gòu)分析： 這是一個(gè)復(fù)合句，句子的賓語(yǔ)warning 帶著兩個(gè)同位語(yǔ)從句，以that 引導(dǎo);第一個(gè)同位語(yǔ)從句中，confidence in 后面是一個(gè)分詞短語(yǔ)作介詞的賓語(yǔ)。
句子譯文：全國(guó)消費(fèi)者委員會(huì)警告說(shuō)長(zhǎng)此以往會(huì)損害消費(fèi)者的信心，人們也會(huì)逐漸懷疑委員會(huì)的聲明。
3.主體句式：But then Sylvia Plath committed suicide.
結(jié)構(gòu)分析：這是一個(gè)同位語(yǔ)帶有定語(yǔ)從句的復(fù)合句。whom和who引導(dǎo)的兩個(gè)定語(yǔ)從句修飾a young American poet，整體作為Sylvia Plath的同位語(yǔ)。
句子譯文：但是在1963年，西爾維亞·普拉斯自殺了，這個(gè)美國(guó)年輕詩(shī)人與他第一次見(jiàn)面是在1956年的劍橋大學(xué)，而當(dāng)年夏天又成為了他妻子。
附：經(jīng)典寫(xiě)作佳句背誦：
No invention has received more praise and abuse than Internet.
沒(méi)有一項(xiàng)發(fā)明像互聯(lián)網(wǎng)一樣同時(shí)受到如此多的贊揚(yáng)和批評(píng)。
People seem to fail to take into account the fact that education does not end with graduation.
人們似乎忽視了教育不應(yīng)該隨著畢業(yè)而結(jié)束這一事實(shí)。
