2021考研英語長難句復習（三十四）

　　

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　　The southern states would not have signed the Constitution without protections for the “peculiar institution,” including a clause that counted a slave as three fifths of a man for purposes of congressional representation.

　　【長難句分析圖解】

　　篇章超精讀

　?、貴or one thing, the South could not afford to part with its slaves.

　?、贠wning slaves was “l(fā)ike having a large bank account,” says Wiencek, author of An Imperfect God: George Washington, His Slaves, and the Creation of America.

　?、跿he southern states would not have signed the Constitution without protections for the “peculiar institution,” including a clause that counted a slave as three fifths of a man for purposes of congressional representation.

　　參考譯文

　?、僖环矫?，南方不能沒有奴隸。

　?、凇恫煌昝赖纳系?喬治·華盛頓，他的奴隸和他創(chuàng)造的美利堅》一書的作者 溫瑟柯稱:擁有奴隸就如同“擁有一筆巨額存款”。

　?、廴绻麤]有對這種“奇特的制度”的保護性條款(其中一項規(guī) 定黑奴按 3/5 人口計算以保證國會代表權)，南方各州是不會簽署憲法的。