GRE考试阅读辅导：长难句实例分析33

　　1. More probable is bird transport，either externally，by accidental attachment of the seeds to feathers，or internally，by the swallowing of fruit and subsequent　excretion of the seeds.

　　更有可能的是鸟类运输：或者是通过外部途径，即由于种籽偶然粘附在羽毛上;或者是通过内部方式，即由于鸟类吞食果子并随后将种籽排泄出来。

　　难句类型：复杂修饰、插入语、倒装

　　解释：句首有一个倒装，正常语序是bird transport is more probable.后面的句子中由于插入部分的频繁出现使句子显得十分凌乱。

　　意群训练：More probable is bird transport，either externally，by accidental attachment of the seeds to feathers，or internally，by the swallowing of fruit and subsequent　excretion of the seeds.

　　2. A long-held view of the history of English colonies that became the United States has been that Englands policy toward these colonies before 1763 was dictated by commercial interests and that a change to a more imperial policy ， dominated by expansionist militarist objectives ， generated the tensions that ultimately led to the American Revolution .

　　一个对于后来成了美国的英国殖民地的历史的长久以来的观点，认为英国在1763年以前对于这些殖民地的政策被经济利益所支配，而且认为一种向着更大程度帝国制度的政策上的转变――为扩张主义的军事目标所左右――产生了最终导致美国革命的紧张气氛。

　　难句类型：复杂修饰、插入语

　　解释：主架构简单，可是主语和表语从句都不让人省心。句子的主干其实就是：A long-held view has been that。但是主语A long-held view之后却是修饰它的一个三层的定语：of the history of the english colonies that became the United States.系动词has been之后所接的表语从句其实不止一个，其实原句是用了and来连接两个并列的表语从句，has been thatand has been that。后面的has been照例被省略。

　　意群训练：A long-held view of the history of English colonies that became the United States has been that Englands policy toward these colonies before 1763 was dictated by commercial interests and that a change to a more imperial policy ， dominated by expansionist militarist objectives ， generated the tensions that ultimately led to the American Revolution .

　　gre阅读长难句的并不是一天两天就能解决的，需要考生的坚持和日常的积累。