This development--and its strong implication for US politics and economy in years ahead--has enthroned the South as America’s most densely populated region for the first time in the history of the nation’s head counting.
【詞匯突破】enthrone: 使……成為…….(其同近義詞為entitle)
densely:密集的
nation’s head counting:全國人口普查(同census)
implication 重要意義和重要性,影響
【主干識別】this deelopment has enthroned the South as America’s most densely populated region.
【其他成分】and its strong implication for US politics and economy in years ahead插入語;in years ahead在未來的幾年中(還有一個表達:in the years to come);for the first time:介詞短語作狀語,可換為firsly;in the history of the nation’s head counting時間狀語。
【微觀解析】這個句子中值得積累的句型為 sth has enthroned sth as… (某物使某物成為……)