2016考研英語：閱讀必背的經典長難句

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俗話說：熟能生巧，2016考研英語閱讀長難句的復習，方法之一就是多背多看多總結，通過多讀多看，大家能夠提升語感和遣詞造句的能力，下面分享50個經典考研英語長難句子，希望考生多讀多看幾遍。

1、It is difficult to the point ofimpossibility for the average reader under theage of forty to imagine a time when high- quality arts criticism could be found in most big-citynewspapers. (2010 T1 P2)

對于平均年齡40歲以下的讀者而言, 他們很難想象在大多數大城市的主流報紙上可以讀到高質量的藝術評論的那一年代。

2. To read such books today is tomarvel at the fact that their learned contents were once deemed suitable for publication in general- circulation dailies. (2010 T1 P2)

今天我們閱讀這樣的書籍,會驚訝于這樣的一個事實:這些學術性文藝評論曾經被認為適合刊登在面向大眾發行的日報上。

3. In those far-off days, it was taken for granted that the critics of major papers wouldwrite in detail and at length about the events they covered. (2010 T1 P3)

在那些遠去的日子里,主流報刊的評論家們詳盡地評論所報道的事件,認為是理所當然的。

4. Curbs on business-method claimswould be a dramaticabout-face,because it was the Federal Circuit itself that introduced such patents with its1998 decision in the so- called State Street Bank case, approving a patent on a way of poolingmutual-fund assets. (2010 T2 P3)

對于商業方法專利授予的限制將會出現巨大的轉變,因為正是聯邦巡回法院在1998年被稱為“州街銀行案”的決議中引入了這類專利,其中的共有資產投資的管理方法被授予了專利。

5. The Federal Circuit issued an unusual order stating that the case would be heard byall 12 of the court’s judges, rather than a typical panel of three, and thatone issue it wants to evaluate iswhether it should “reconsider” its State Street Bank ruling. (2010 T2 P4)

聯邦巡回法院發布了一項不尋常的法令,即這個案件將由法院全部的12名法官共同聽審, 而不是典型的三人聽審團。法令還宣布法院希望評估是否要“重新考慮”州街銀行案的裁決。

6. In his book The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell argues that “social epidemics” are driven in large part by the actions of a tinyminority of special individuals, often called influentials, who are unusually-informed, persuasive, or well connected. (2010 T3 P1)

Malcolm Gladwell在他的《引爆點》一書中指出,“社會流行潮”主要是由一少部分特殊個體的行為引領的,這些人通常被稱為有影響力的人,他們博聞強識, 有說服力,并且有很好的人脈。

7. For a social epidemic to occur,however, each person so affected must then influence his or her ownacquaintances, who must in turn influence theirs,and so on; and just how many others pay attention to each of these people haslittle to do with the initial influential. (2010T3 P4)

但是對于社會流行潮的形成來說,每一個受影響的人必須接著去影響他們的熟人,這些人還要繼續影響他們的熟人,如此循環下去; 然而處于中間層級的人能得到被影響者的多少關注往往與最初的有影響力的人沒多大關系。

8. The details may be unknowable, butthe independence of standard-setters, essential to the proper functioning of capital markets, is being compromised. (2010 T4 P2)

細節也許不得而知,但是對于資本市場正常運轉至關重要的準則制定者的獨立性正在面臨妥協(被弱化)。

9. And dead markets partly reflect the paralysis of bankswhich will not sell assets for fear of booking losses, yet are reluctant to buyall those supposed bargains. (2010 T4 P5)

而且, 不流動的市場(交易量萎靡)一定程度上反映了銀行系統的癱瘓。銀行因為害怕(報告)其賬面損失而不愿出售(有毒)資產, 同時也不愿收購那些(別人持有的)所謂的廉價資產。

10. The decision of the New YorkPhilharmonic to hire Alan Gilbert asits next musicdirector has been the talk of the classical-music world ever sincethe sudden announcementof his appointment in 2009. (2011 T1 P1)

紐約愛樂樂團決定聘請Alan Gilbert 作為其下一任指揮,這一決定自2009年突然宣布以來就一直是古典音樂界熱議的話題。

11. For the time, attention, and moneyof the art- loving public, classical instrumentalists must compete not only with opera houses, dance troupes, theater companies, and museums, butalso with the recorded performances ofthe great classical musicians of the 20th century. (2011 T1 P4)

出于對于藝術愛好者的時間、精力和金錢角度的考量,古典音樂演奏家們不僅要和歌劇院、舞蹈團、劇團和博物館競爭,而且還得與那些20世紀偉大的古典音樂大師的作品唱片進行競爭。

12. Rather than cloaking his exit inthe usual vague excuses, he came rightout and said he was leaving “to pursue my goal of runninga company.” (2011 T2 P1)

他并沒有用通常含糊不清的理由來掩飾自己的離職,他很坦白地說他離開就是“為了去追求經營一家公司的目標”。

13. Says Korn /Ferry senior partnerDennis Carey: “I can’t think of a single search I’ve done where a board has notinstructed me to look at sitting CEOs first.” (2011 T2 P4)

Dennis Carey 的高級合伙人Korn Ferry 說:“在我所做的每一次招聘當中,董事會都要求我從那些在任的CEO 中去尋找。

14. The way consumers now approach theprocess of making purchase decisions means that marketings impact stems from a broad range of factorsbeyondconventionalpaid media. (2011 T3 P1)

如今消費者做出購買決定的過程表明:市場營銷的影響(效果) 源自于除了傳統付費媒體之外的很多因素。

15. The same dramatic technological changes that haveprovided marketers with more (and more diverse) communications choices havealso increased the risk that passionate consumers will voice their opinions in quicker, more visible, and much more damaging ways. (2011 T3 P3)

同樣劇烈的技術變革在給營銷人員提供更多交流選擇的同時,也帶來了更高的風險,因為充滿激情的消費者會以更快、更明顯且更具破壞力的方式來發表他們的觀點。

16. It’s no surprise that JenniferSenior’s insightful,provocative magazine coverstory, “I Love My Children, I Hate My Life”, is arousing much chatter—nothing gets people talking like the suggestion thatchild rearing is anything less than a completely fulfilling, life-enrichingexperience.(2011 T4 P1)

Jennifer Senior 在一片具有煽動意味的雜志封面故事中表達了她的深刻見解, 《我愛我的孩子們,我討厭我的生活》引發了人們的熱烈討論,這并不奇怪——養兒育女不完全是自我實現的過程。

17. But it’s interesting to wonder ifthe images we see every week of stress-free, happiness-enhancing parenthoodaren’t in some small, subconscious waycontributing to our own dissatisfactions with the actual experience, in the sameway that a small part of us hoped getting “the Rachel” might make us look justa little bit like Jennifer Aniston. (2011 T4 P5)

但是, 這確實有趣:想想我們每周都能在雜志上看到的無憂無慮、幸福的父母形象是否以某種細微的、不為人所感知的方式加劇了我們自己對現實生活的不滿? 這就好比我們中有一少部分人希望能夠成為(《老友記》中的)Rachel, (這樣)使自己看起來有一點像Jennifer Aniston 吧。

18. But in her new book Join the Club, Tina Rosenberg contends that peer pressure can also be apositive force through what she calls the social cure, in which organizationsand officials use the power of group dynamics to help individuals improve theirlives and possibly the world. (2012 T1 P1)

但是Tina Rosenberg 在她的新書《加入俱樂部》中主張,通過她所謂的社會治療, 同儕壓力也可以成為一種積極的力量。在社會治療中一些組織和官方(機構)利用團體動態力量來幫助個人提升他們的生活, 甚至改善整個世界。

19. “Dare to be different, please dontsmoke!” pleadsone billboard campaign aimed at reducing smokingamong teenagers- teenagers, who desire nothing more than fitting in. (2012 T1 P3)

一場旨在減少青少年吸煙的廣告牌上寫到“勇于與眾不同,請不要吸煙”。然而,這些青少年卻是最渴望融入(與他人行為一樣)。

20. Instead, the company has done precisely what it had long promised it would notchallenge the constitutionality of Vermont’s rules in the federal court, as part of a desperate effort to keep its Vermont Yankeenuclear power plant running. (2012 T2 P2)

然而,就是這家公司,一直以來都承諾:不會在聯邦法院質疑佛蒙特州的規則的符憲性。現在的做法(質疑佛蒙特州規則的符憲性)是為了使其佛蒙特Yankee 核電站能夠繼續經營做出的孤注一擲的行為。

21. The legal issues in the case areobscure: whereas the Supreme Court has ruled that states do have someregulatory authorityover nuclearpower, legal scholars say that Vermont case will offer a precedent-setting testof how far those powers extend. (2012 T2 P5)

此案件中的法律問題還不清楚:盡管最高法院規定州政府在核問題監管方面也有一些權力,然而法律學者說佛蒙特州案件將會給州政府權力究竟有多大這一問題提供一個先例。

22. In the idealized version of how science is done, factsabout the world are waiting to be observed and collected by objective researchers who use thescientific method to carry out their work. (2012 T3 P1)

在科學是如何展開的理想化版本中, 關于世界的真相有待于客觀的研究者使用科學的方法去觀察和收集。

23. As a discovery claim works its waythrough the community, the interaction and confrontation between shared andcompeting beliefs about the science and the technology involved transforms an individual’s discovery claim into the community’s credible discovery. (2012T3 P3)

在發現聲明通過科學界的逐級審查過程中,與該發現相容或相悖的理論會相互作用或相互對抗,(最終),個人的發現聲明轉化為(被)整個科學界所認可的科學發現。

24. Politicians have repeatedly“backloaded” public-sector pay deals, keeping the pay increases modest but adding to holidays and especiallypensions that are already generous. (2012 T4 P4)

政治家們不斷變相提高公共部門員工的收入, 使工資增幅看起來不大, 但卻增加了節假日和本來就已經不菲的養老金。

25. Even though there is plenty ofevidence that the quality of the teachers is the most important variable, teachers’ unions have fought against getting rid of bad ones and promoting good ones. (2012T4 P5)

雖然有大量證據表明教師的質量是最重要的因素, 然而教師工會仍然反對去晉升表現優異的教師, 開除那些教學質量差的教師。

26. Priestly explains how the deep bluecolor of the assistant’s sweater descended over the years from fashion shows todepartment stores and to the bargain bin in which the poor girl doubtless foundher garment.(2013 T1 P1)

翻譯：Priestly解釋了她的女助理身穿的那件毛衣的深藍色多年來是怎樣從T臺淪落到百貨商店,又如何從百貨商店淪落到打折區中, 毫無疑問,這個可憐的姑娘最后在這里(打折區)淘到了它。(2013 T1 P1)

27. This top-down conception of thefashion business couldn’t be more out of date or at odds with the feverishworld described in Overdressed, Elizabeth Cline’s three-year indictment of“fast fashion”. (2013 T1 P2)

翻譯：這個時尚業自上而下的概念太過時了,或者說它和Elizabeth Cline在《過度著裝》(Elizabeth Cline用三年時間所寫的對于“快時尚”的控訴)一書中所描述的狂熱世界大相徑庭。(2013 T1 P2)

28.In December 2010 America’s FederalTrade Commission (FTC) proposed adding a “do not track” (DNT) option tointernet browsers, so that users could tell advertisers that they did not wantto be followed.(2013 T2 P3)

翻譯：2010年12月,美國聯邦貿易委員會提議在互聯網瀏覽器中添加一個“禁止追蹤”的選項,這樣用戶可以告知廣告商們他們不想被追蹤。(2013 T2 P3)

29. Unable to tell whether someonereally objects to behavioural ads or whether they are sticking with Microsoft’sdefault, some may ignore a DNT signal and press on anyway. (2013 T2 P6)

翻譯：由于無法判斷人們是真的反對行為廣告還是他們堅持使用微軟瀏覽器的默認設置,一些廣告商可能會忽視“禁止追蹤” 的標簽,繼續追蹤(人們的網上痕跡)。(2013 T2 P6)

30. If it is trying to upset Google, which relies almost wholly on advertising, ithas chosen an indirect method: There is no guarantee that DNT by default willbecome the norm. (2013 T2 P7)

翻譯：如果微軟試圖擊敗幾乎完全依靠廣告業務的谷歌,那么它選擇了一個并不直接的方法: 我們無法保證把“禁止追蹤”作為默認設置會成為行業準則。(2013 T2 P7)

31. Look up Homo sapiens in the “Red List” of threatenedspecies of the International Union for the Conversation of Nature (IUCN) andyou will read: “Listed as Least Concern as the species is very widelydistributed, adaptable, currently increasing, and there are no major threatsresulting in an overall population decline.”(2013 T3 P3)

翻譯：在國際自然保護聯盟的“瀕危物種紅色名單”中查閱“智人” 這一條目,你會看到:“因為此物種分布廣泛,適應性強,目前數量正在不斷增加, 并且沒有導致該物種數量下降的主要威脅, 因此該物種被列為了無危物種。”(2013 T3 P3)

32. As so often, the past holds the key to the future: wehave now identified enough of the long-term patterns shaping the history of theplanet, and our species, to make evidence-based forecasts about the situationsin which our descendants will find themselves.(2013 T3 P6)

翻譯：正如很多時候,過去掌握著通往未來的鑰匙:我們現在已經對塑造地球和歷史的長期模式有了很充分的認識,我們可以以此為依據來預測我們子孫后代的生存環境。(2013 T3 P6)

33. The Constitutional principles that Washington alonehas the power to “establish a uniform Rule of Naturalization” and that federallaws precede state laws are noncontroversial.(2013 T4 P2)

翻譯：憲法規定只有華盛頓政府有權利去“制定統一的入籍規則”,以及聯邦法律優先于州法律,這兩項都是毋庸置疑的。(2013 T4 P2)

34. The Administration was in essence asserting thatbecause it didn’t want to carry out Congress’s immigration wishes, no stateshould be allowed to do so either. (2013 T4 P7)

翻譯：政府實質上一直聲稱因為自己并不想執行國會的移民意愿,所以它(政府)也不允許任何州這樣做。(2013 T4 P7)

35. On first hearing, this was the socially concernedchancellor, trying to change lives for the better, complete with “reforms” toan obviously indulgent system that demands too little effort from the newlyunemployed to find work, and subsidises laziness. (2014 T1 P2)

翻譯：乍一聽,這是一位關心民生的財政大臣正試著去幫人們改善生活,包括去“改革”一個明顯縱容的社會(福利)系統, 它對新失業者要求甚少并且還滋生懶惰。(2014 T1 P2)

36. What motivated him, we were to understand, was hiszeal for “fundamental fairness”— protecting the taxpayer, controlling spendingand ensuring that only the most deserving claimants received their benefits. (2014 T1 P2)

翻譯：然而我們要明白,他的動機是源自于對 “基本公平”的熱情—保護納稅人,控制開銷并且確保只有那些最應得的救濟的申請者才能申領救濟金。(2014 T1 P2)

37. There is pressure for change from within theprofession, but opponents of change among the regulators insist that keepingoutsiders out of a law firm isolates lawyers from the pressure to make moneyrather than serve clients ethically. (2014 T2 P5)

翻譯：行業內部也有改革的壓力,但是反對改革的管理者堅持認為禁止外人(外部資金) 進入律師事務所使得律師遠離賺錢的壓力, 而按照職業道德更好地為客戶服務。(2014 T2 P5)

38. In fact, allowing non-lawyers to own shares in lawfirms would reduce costs and improve services to customers, by encouraging lawfirms to use technology and to employ professional managers to focus onimproving firms’ efficiency. (2014 T2 P6)

翻譯：實際上,通過律所運用新的技術, 招募致力于提升公司效率的職業經理人, 允許非律師擁有律師事務所的股份,將會降低成本,提升服務(質量)。(2014 T2 P6)

39. There is just one path for a lawyer in most Americanstates: a four-year undergraduate degree in some unrelated subject, then athree- year law degree at one of 200 law schools authorized by the American BarAssociation and an expensive preparation for the bar exam. (2014 T2 P3)

翻譯：在美國的絕大多數州想成為律師只有一條途徑: 首先在(與法律專業)不相關的專業讀四年本科,然后在經過美國律師協會授權的200所法學院中讀 3 年的法學學位,并且再花巨資準備律師資格考試。(2014 T2 P3)

40. But the Nobel Foundation’s limit of three recipientsper prize, each of whom must still be living, has long been outgrown by thecollaborative nature of modern research—as will be demonstrated by theinevitable row over who is ignored when it comes to acknowledging the discoveryof the Higgs boson. (2014 T3 P4)

翻譯：但是諾貝爾學獎關于每個獎項限三名獲獎者,而且他們必須在世的限制已經因為現代科學的合作方式而變得不再適用,并將會在承認希格斯玻色子的發現時被證明,因為到時會不可避免的出現哪位科學家被忽視了這樣的爭論。(2014 T3 P4)

41. Among the commission’s 51 members are top-tier-university presidents, scholars, lawyers, judges, and business executives, aswell as prominent figures from diplomacy, filmmaking, music and journalism. (2014 T4 P2)

翻譯：該委員會由51名委員組成,在他們當中,有頂級高等學校的校長、學者、律師、法官以及企業經理,還包括了外交、電影、音樂和新聞界的杰出的人物。(2014 T4 P2)

42. The commission ignores that for several decadesAmerica’s colleges and universities have produced graduates who don’t know thecontent and character of liberal education and are thus deprived of itsbenefits. (2014 T4 P4)

翻譯：委員會忽略了數十年來存在的問題,美國大學所培養出來的畢業生并未真正了解人文教育的內容和特點,因此并沒有從中獲益。(2014 T4 P4)

43 At a time when Thomas Piketty and other economistsare warning of rising inequality and the increasing power of inherited wealth,it is bizarre that wealthy aristocratic families should still be the symbolicheart of modern democratic states. (2015 T1 P4)

翻譯：當 ThomasPiketty和其他經濟學家開始對于日益加劇的不公和繼承財富的權利發出警告時,那些富有的貴族家庭依然被看做是現代民主國家象征就顯得令人費解了。(2015 T1 P4)

44. While Europe’s monarchies will no doubt be smartenough to survive for some time to come, it is the British royals who have mostto fear from the Spanish example. (2015 T1 P6)

翻譯：查爾斯應該明白:正如英國歷史所示,共和黨并非君主制最大的敵人,國王(本身的言行) 才是君主制最大的敵人。(2015 T1 P6)

45. The Supreme Court will now consider whether policecan search the contents of a mobile phone without a warrant if the phone is onor around a person during an arrest. (2015 T2 P1)

翻譯：現在,最高法院將要考慮的是警察是否可以在沒有搜查令的情況下搜查在逮捕期間的嫌疑人的手機內容。(2015 T2 P1)

46. They could still invalidate Fourth Amendmentprotections when facing severe, urgent circumstances, and they could takereasonable measures to ensure that phone data are not erased or altered while awarrant is pending. (2015 T2 P6)

翻譯：當面臨嚴重緊急情況時他們仍然會違反第四修正法案的保護條例,他們需要采取合理的措施來確保在沒有拿到搜查令的時候手機數據不會被刪除或修改。(2015 T2 P6)

47. Asked whether any particular papers had impelled thechange, McNutt said: “The creation of the ‘statistics board’ was motivated byconcerns broadly with the application of statistics and data analysis inscientific research and is part of Science’s overall drive to increasereproducibility in the research we publish.” (2015 T3 P3)

翻譯：當被問及是否是某篇特定的出版物促使了這個變化,McNutt回答道:“統計委員會的設立是受對科學調查的統計應用和數據分析的廣泛擔憂所驅使的,并且它是雜志整體趨勢的一部分,用以增加出版文章的可復制性。” (2015 T3 P3)

48. Researchers should improve their standards, he wrotein 2012, but journals should also take a tougher line, “engaging reviewers whoare statistically literate and editors who can verify the process”. (2015 T3 P6)

翻譯：他在2012年寫到研究者應該提升他們的標準,而雜志也應該采取一個更加嚴格的路線“參與的審查者應該具有統計學知識,并且編輯應該核實這一流程”。(2015 T3 P6)

49. One of the astonishing revelations was how littleRebekah Brooks knew of what went on in her newsroom, how little she thought toask and the fact that she never inquired how the stories arrived. (2015 T4 P4)

翻譯：其中一個令人驚訝的事實是Rebekah Brooks竟不知道她的編輯部所發生的事,也沒想到自己會被審問,事實上,她也從未過問事情是怎樣發生的。(2015 T4 P4)

50. Ms Brooks may or may not have had suspicions abouthow her journalists got their stories, but she asked no questions, gave noinstructions—nor received traceable, recorded answers. (2015 T4 P6)

翻譯：Brooks女士可能懷疑或可能沒懷疑過她的記者們是如何得到他們所寫的故事的, 但是她沒有詢問,沒有做出指示,即沒有得到可追溯的記錄下來的回答。(2015 T4 P6)