剖析英语六级阅读真题长难句(9)

　　下面剖析英语六级阅读真题长难句，希望考生在练习同时思考长难句的句子结构。

　　1. To provide such proof, TT therapists would have to sit down for independent testingsomething they havent been eager to do, even though James Randi has offered more than $1 million to anyone who can demonstrate the existence of a human energy field.

　　【译文】要提供此类证据，通过治疗性碰触治疗病人的理疗师必须要参加独立的测试这是他们所不愿意做的，即使詹姆斯兰迪悬赏100多万美元寻找能展示人体精神领域存在的人。

　　【析句】主句To provide such proof,TT therapists would have to sit down for independent testing,动词不定式在主句中作目的状语。破折号后，something是independent testing的同位语，同时they havent been eager to do是省略了引导词that的定语从句修饰something。

　　2. Problem solving is a useful help to your happiness, but if you know that given your inability to resolve a particular concern you can still choose happiness for yourself, or at a minimum refuse to choose unhappiness, then you are intelligent.

　　【译文】解决问题的能力有助于获得幸福感，但是如果你明白，即使不能解决某个你担心的问题，你仍然可以选择快乐，或是至少尽可能地拒绝选择不快乐，那么你就是聪明的。

　　【析句】复合句。主句由but连接具有转折关系的并列句构成。第一句是Problem solving is a useful help to your happiness，简单句。第二句的主句是then you are intelligent。主句前,if you know that...作条件状语从句。而条件状语从句中，know后是that引导的宾语从句。宾语从句中，主句是you can still choose happiness for yourself,or at...choose unhappiness，given your inability to resolven a particular concern中，given是连词，相当于considering。

　　3. Second, heels are quite functional for defense against oncoming enemies, who can easily be scared away by threatening them with a pair of these sharp, deadly fashion accessories.

　　【译文】其次，高跟鞋在面对坏人时是一个很有用的工具。如果你脱下高跟鞋吓唬他们，他们很容易被这双尖锐、危险的时尚装饰物吓走。

　　【析句】这句话不难理解，但有种含蓄的幽默，看起来像描述高跟鞋的优点，实际上是对它的调侃。具体来看，主句是heels are quite functional for defense against oncoming enemies,who can be scared away by threatening theme with a pair of these...accessories作定语从句修饰enemies。定语从句中，by threatening...是介词短语作方式状语。