GRE考試閱讀理解長難句解析（15）

　　For instance, early textile-mill entrepreneurs, in justifying women’s employment in wage labor, made much of the assumption that women were by nature skillful at detailed tasks and patient in carrying out repetitive chores; the mill owners thus imported into the new industrial order hoary stereotypes associated with the homemaking activities they presumed to have been the purview of women.

　　【標(biāo)識(shí)】

　　For instance, early textile-mill entrepreneurs, 1[in justifying women’s employment] 2[in wage labor], made much of the assumption 3[that women were by nature skillful at detailed tasks and patient in carrying out repetitive chores]; the mill owners thus imported into the new industrial order 4[hoary stereotypes] 5[associated with the homemaking activities] 6[that they presumed] 7[to have been the purview of women].

　　【難點(diǎn)】

　　1. 介詞結(jié)構(gòu)倒裝。in justifying women’s employment修飾entrepreneurs。2. 介詞結(jié)構(gòu)倒裝。in wage labor修飾women’s employment。3. 同位語從句。that引導(dǎo)的同位語從句進(jìn)一步解釋assumption。4. 賓語倒裝。hoary stereotypes是imported的直接賓語。5. 分詞結(jié)構(gòu)倒裝。associated with the homemaking activities修飾stereotypes。6. 定語從句及省略。that引導(dǎo)的定語從句修飾activities，此處省略引導(dǎo)詞that。7. 介詞結(jié)構(gòu)倒裝。to have been the purview of women修飾activities。

　　【譯文】

　　比如，早期的紡織廠主們?cè)谡f明他們?cè)诠べY勞動(dòng)中雇傭婦女的理由時(shí)，已經(jīng)做了很大程度的假設(shè)，他們認(rèn)為婦女天生就擅長做細(xì)活，并在進(jìn)行重復(fù)性的雜務(wù)時(shí)也更加細(xì)心;因此，早期的紡織廠主們就把這樣的陳詞濫調(diào)引入到了新的工業(yè)秩序中，即認(rèn)為家務(wù)勞動(dòng)是婦女的天職。