大学英语四级长难句 并列平行结构（三）

　　Exercise

　　Dying patients especiallywho are easiest to mislead and most often kept in the darkcan then not make decisions about the end of life: about whether or not they should enter a hospital, or to have surgery; about where and with whom they should spend their remaining time; about how they should bring their affairs to a close and take leave.

　　Computer crime, a phrase denoting illegal and surreptitious attempts to invade data banks in order to steal or modify records, or to release over computer networks software called a virus that corrupts data and programs, has grown at an alarming rate since the development of computer communications.

　　Hence, though the normal child masters some 80,000 words in sixteen years about fourteen per day little of this learning takes place in school.

　　要点分析和参考译文

　　要点：要点该句中破折号内得成分是插入语。介词about 之后三个分别由whether or notwhere and with whomhow引起得从句做其宾语。动词短语to bring to a close意为to cause to come to an end to take leave意为say goodbye to sb.

　　参考译文：特别是濒临死亡的病人他们最容易受骗，也最会被蒙在鼓里从而不能做出临终前的有关抉择：是否要住院，是否要进行手术，在何处与何人度过剩下的一点时光，以及如何处理完自己的事后再告别人世。

　　要点：本句的主句是Computer crime grams, has grown at an alarming rate逗号之间的插入结构a phraseprograms是主句主语Computer crime的同位语。

　　参考译文：随着计算机通信的迅速发展，计算机犯罪以令人震惊的速度增长。计算机犯罪这个术语指的是用非法的，秘密的手段入侵数据库，以便偷取或修改数据库资料，或是在计算机网络中散布病毒软件，这些病毒能毁坏数据和程序。

　　要点：hence，就这样，副词表示结果。Though引导让步状语从句，从句的主语为the normal child, 谓语为master, about fourteen per day为插入语，起补充说明的作用，主句的主语为little of this learning; 主句的谓语是takes place

　　参考译文：这样，尽管正常的孩子在16年里能掌握大约8万个单词，大约一天学14个，但只有很少一部分是在学校里学来得。