例248 Among the many shaping factors, I would single out the country's excellent elementary schools; a labor force that welcomed the new technology; the practice of giving premiums to inventors; and above all, the American genius for nonverbal, "spatial" thinking about things technological.
【結(jié)構(gòu)分析】Among the many shaping factors是個介詞短語做狀語,修飾整個句子,主語是I,動詞是would single out,賓語是個四個并列名詞短語,第一個賓語是the country's excellent elementary schools,第二個賓語是a labor force that welcomed the new technology,第三個賓語是the practice of giving premiums to inventors,第四個賓語是the American genius for nonverbal, "spatial" thinking about things technological。
【亮點回放】此句話的亮點在于四個名詞短語做賓語,很壯觀,第一個賓語是個名詞修飾結(jié)構(gòu),第二個賓語里面有定語從句,第三個賓語里面有of結(jié)構(gòu),第四個賓語里面有分詞結(jié)構(gòu)。
【核心詞匯】
many shaping factors 許多形成因素
elementary schools 小學教育
labor force 勞動者們
giving premiums to inventors 獎勵發(fā)明者
genius 天賦
nonverbal, "spatial" thinking 非言語的、“空間性的”思考
【參考譯文】在許多形成因素當中,我將挑選出這些:這個國家優(yōu)秀的小學教育;歡迎新技術的勞動者們;獎勵發(fā)明者的做法;而且最重要的是美國人在對那些技術性事物的非言語的、“空間性的”思考方面的天賦。