托福閱讀長難句100句:肥沃土地的雜草

　　A fertile, plowed field is rapidly invaded by a large variety of weeds, whereas a neighboring construction site from which the soil has been compacted or removed to expose a coarse, infertile parent material may remain virtually free of vegetation for many months or even years despite receiving the same input of seeds as the plowed field. (TPO32, 56)

　　fertile /'f??ta?l/ adj. (指土地)肥沃的, 富饒的;(指動植物)能結(jié)果實的, 能生育的;(指人的頭腦)主意多的, 有創(chuàng)造力的

　　plow /plau/ v. 犁<地>，用犁耕<地>

　　compact /k?m'pækt/ v. 將(某物)緊壓在一起

　　coarse /k??s/ adj. 粗糙的;(指食物﹑ 酒等)低劣的, 粗劣的;不高雅的，粗俗的;

　　大家自己先讀，不回讀，看一遍是否能理解

　　A fertile, plowed field is rapidly invaded (by a large variety of weeds), whereas a neighboring construction site (from which the soil has been compacted or removed to expose a coarse, infertile parent material) may remain virtually free of vegetation (for many months or even years) (despite receiving the same input of seeds as the plowed field.) (TPO32, 56)

　　托福閱讀長難句分析：

　　這個句子的主干部分是：

　　A fertile, plowed field is rapidly invaded whereas a neighboring construction site may remain virtually free of vegetation

　　whereas然而，表示對比，對比兩種情況

　　修飾一：(by a large variety of weeds) ，介詞短語

　　中文：被各種各樣的雜草

　　修飾二：(from which the soil has been compacted or removed to expose a coarse, infertile parent material) ，從句，修飾a neighboring construction site

　　這個句子理解的難點應該就在這里了，這個從句把a neighboringconstruction site和may remain virtually free ofvegetation分開了，注意斷句不要出問題，這種現(xiàn)象之前我們碰到很多了。

　　中文：這里的土壤被緊壓或移除過以至于露出母質(zhì)層(不要去理解啥是parent material，學術(shù)名詞)

　　修飾三：(for many months or even years) ，介詞短語

　　中文：幾個月偶然甚至是幾年

　　修飾四：(despite receiving the same inputof seeds as the plowed field.) ，介詞短語

　　中文：盡管得到了和這塊翻耕地同樣多的種子

　　托福閱讀長難句參考翻譯：

　　一塊肥沃且被翻耕過的土地會被各種各樣的雜草迅速入侵，然而一個鄰近的建筑工地(這里的土壤被緊壓或移除過以至于露出母質(zhì)層)可能幾個月甚至幾年都幾乎沒有植被覆蓋，盡管得到了和這塊翻耕地同樣多的種子。

　　這個句子的主要修飾成分就是從句、介詞短語，大家務必想清楚，每一個修飾成分修飾的是什么，才能看清楚這個句子的結(jié)構(gòu)。