5-2:并列平行结构真题难句荟萃
1.Crippling health care bills,long emergency-room waits and the inability to find a primary care physician just scratch the surface of the problems that patients face daily.
分析:主干:...bills,...waits and the inability...scratch the surface...主语是三个并列的名词词组,三个中心词都有各自的修饰语,其中the inability的后置修饰语是个不定式短语。句末that引导的定语从句修饰the problems。scratch the surface of...:仅触及问题的表面。
译文:巨额的医疗保健费用、急诊室里的久候、找不到一个初级护理医生,这些还只是触及病人们每天面对的问题的表面。
2.In time,Italians,Romanians and members of other so-called inferior races became exemplary Americans and contributed greatly,in ways too numerous to detail,to the building of this magnificent nation.
主干:...Italians,Romanians and members... became Americans and contributed...to the building of...
①本句是个含有复合谓语的简单句,由and并列连接两个谓语动词became和contributed。主语较长,是含三个名词的并列结构。在第二个谓语中,两个逗号间的内容是插入语,把contribute...to...短语分隔开了。②in time 及时;过一段时间,迟早 ;exemplary 典范的 ;contribute... to... 为 做贡献 。
译文:只要假以时日,意大利人、罗马尼亚人以及其他被称作 劣等民族 的人最后成为了美国人中的典范之士,以各种各样的方式为建设伟大的美国而贡献良多。