12月大学英语六级阅读真题长难句解析（8）

　　1. In our culture, the sources of what we call a sense of masteryfeeling important and worth-while-and the sources of what we call a sense pleasure-finding life enjoyable-are not always identical.

　　【译文】在我们的文化中，我们常说的控制感感觉自己很重要有价值，与快乐感发现生活的乐趣，它们的来源是不尽相同的。

　　【析句】例句1句子看起来很长，但结构并不复杂。句子主干是the sources of... and the sources of...are not always identical,有两个并列的主语the sources of,而两个of后各有一个what引导的宾语从句what we call a sense of...。同时，主语后各有一个现在分词伴随状语，位于破折号后。

　　2. Ironically, those things that keep us from knowing another person too well may be just as important to the development of satisfying relationship as those things that enable us to obtain accurate knowledge about a person .

　　【译文】让人感到讽刺的是，那些阻碍我们了解别人的东西(比如秘密和欺骗)对于培养令人满意的友谊，或许与那些使我们准确了解别人的东西(比如坦白和真话)同样重要。

　　【析句】复合句。主句是those things may be just as important to...as those things，包含了as...to sb/sth as...比较级结构。主语those things后有定语从句that keep us from knowing another person too well,而介词宾语those things后也有that引导的定语从句修饰，这样就使得整个句子的结构前后对称，工整顺口。

　　3. Interestingly, though, the rise of the unattractive overnight successes was attributed more to personal relationships and less to ability than was that of attractive overnight successes.

　　【译文】但是，有趣的是，比起长相漂亮的人，长相不美者的迅速成功更容易归功于个人关系助力，而非能力卓越。

　　【析句】这也是个比较句。比较结构是the rise of the unattractive overnight successes was attributed more to...and less to...than was that of...,比较的对象是the rise of the unattractive overnight success与was that of attractive overnight success,其中that指代the rise。而比较的形式是动词词组attribute to的比较级，且由and连接两个并列的比较级。