托福閱讀高難度文章長難句實例解析：中國造紙技術向西方傳播

　　It has been said that Chinese papermakers were among the prisoners captured in a battle fought near Samarqand between the Chineseand the Muslims in 751, and the technique of papermaking - in which cellulosepulp extracted from any of several plants is first suspended in water, caught on a fine screen, and then dried into flexible sheets - slowly spread westward.

　　詞匯講解：

　　cellulose /'selj?l??z/ n. 纖維素

　　pulp /p?lp/ n. 果肉;紙漿

　　extract /?k'strækt/ vt. 取出，拔出;壓出, 榨出(汁液等);選錄，摘錄

　　suspend /s?'spend/ vt. 懸掛或吊起某物;使(某物)懸浮;使(某事物)暫停

　　screen n. (篩煤﹑ 礫石等的)篩子

　　flexible /'fl?ks?bl/ adj. 易彎曲的，柔韌的， 有彈性的

　　結構劃分：

　　It has been said that Chinese papermakers were among the prisoners (capturedin a battle)(fought near Samarqand)(between the Chinese and the Muslims in 751), and the technique of papermaking - (in which cellulose pulp extracted from any of several plants is first suspended in water, caught on a fine screen, and then dried into flexible sheets) - slowly spread westward.

　　深度分析：

　　這個句子的主干是：

　　It has been said that + 從句

　　從句的主干是：

　　Chinese papermakers were among the prisoners and the technique of papermaking slowly spread westward

　　修飾一：(captured in a battle)，非謂語動詞，相當于形容詞，修飾the prisoners

　　中文：在戰(zhàn)爭中被俘

　　修飾二：(fought near Samarqand)，非謂語動詞，相當于形容詞，修飾battle

　　中文：在撒馬爾罕附近

　　修飾三：(between the Chinese and the Muslims in 751)，介詞短語

　　中文：在751年，在中國和穆斯林之間

　　修飾四：(in which cellulose pulp extracted from any of severalplants is first suspended in water, caught on a fine screen, and then dried into flexible sheets)，從句，修飾the technique of papermaking

　　注意：從句里面還有一個非謂語動詞修飾cellulosepulp

　　cellulose pulp (extracted from any ofseveral plants) is first suspended in water

　　中文：首先從幾顆植物中提取纖維素紙漿懸浮在水中，在精致的篩子上過濾，然后烘干成有韌性的紙張

　　參考翻譯：

　　據(jù)說在751年，在中國和穆斯林之間，在撒馬爾罕附近的一場戰(zhàn)役中，中國的造紙匠被虜成為囚犯，這樣造紙術(首先從幾顆植物中提取纖維素紙漿懸浮在水中，在精致的篩子上過濾，然后烘干成有韌性的紙張)才緩慢向西方傳播。