例250 During the past generation, the American middle-class family that once could count on hard work and fair play to keep itself financially secure has been transformed by economic risk and new realities.
【結構分析】這句話是個典型的定語從句,句子開頭是個介詞短語做狀語,也就是During the past generation,句子的主語是the American middle-class family,后面加上定語從句that once could count on hard work and fair play to keep itself financially secure,該定語從句是個并列句,動詞是has been transformed by,動詞是被動語態(tài),賓語是economic risk and new realities。
【亮點回放】此句話的亮點在于很長的并列定語從句,而且主干是被動語態(tài),很經典。
【核心詞匯】
count on 依靠
fair play 公平競爭
financially secure 財政收支安全
economic risk 經濟危機
new realities 新的現(xiàn)實
【參考譯文】在過去的20多年時間里,那些曾經依靠辛勤工作和公平競爭就可以保證自己財政收支安全的美國中產階級家庭已經被經濟風險和新的現(xiàn)實所改變。(用定語從句前置的翻譯方法來處理這個句子)