復(fù)雜的并列句的拆分和理解 例260

例260　The individual now has more information available than any generation, and the task of finding the piece of information relevant to his or her specific problem is complicated, time-consuming.

【結(jié)構(gòu)分析】這是兩個(gè)并列句組成，第一個(gè)并列句子主干是The individual now has more information，后面是形容詞短語available than any generation做定語，修飾前面的名詞information，第二個(gè)并列句的主干是the task is complicated, time-consuming, of finding the piece of information relevant to his or her specific problem是個(gè)介詞短語，修飾前面的名詞the task，這個(gè)of短語中relevant to his or her specific problem這個(gè)形容詞短語修飾前面的information。

【亮點(diǎn)回放】此句話的亮點(diǎn)在于定語很復(fù)雜，很長，有形容詞短語，有介詞短語，很有延展性。

【核心詞匯】

individual　個(gè)體

available　可獲得的

task　任務(wù)

relevant to　相關(guān)

specific problem　特定問題

complicated　復(fù)雜的

time-consuming　耗時(shí)的

【參考譯文】一個(gè)人現(xiàn)在擁有的信息比任何一代人擁有的信息都多，所以尋找和他或她特定問題相關(guān)的信息這個(gè)任務(wù)并不輕松，而且很耗時(shí)。