警惕考研中的熟词僻义（1115）
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【昨日回顾】
He believes that this very difficulty may have had the compensating advantage of forcing him to think long and intently about every sentence, and thus enabling him to detect errors in reasoning and in his own observations.
他认为，或许正是这种困难使得他具有了某种优势（0.5分）：他不得不长时间仔细思考每个句子（0.5分），因此他能够检查出自己在推理和观察之中的错误（0.5分）。这也算一种补偿吧（0.5分）。
【今日长难句】
2008年47题
He asserted, also, that his power to follow a long and purely abstract train of thought was very limited, for which reason he felt certain that he never could have succeeded with mathematics.
本句中含有的熟词僻义词汇：power, follow, train ...
【词的处理】
assert v. 表示“宣称， 断言， 声明；维护， 坚持”等。
如：assert one’s rights (维护自己的权利)，
assert sth. to be true(断言某事是真实的)，
assert national independence (维护民族独立)。
train n.表示“列车， 行列， 后果， 顺序”等。如：a train of events (一连串/一系列的事件)。
train v. 表示“培养，教导，训练”。
如：Mr. Sky has trained thousands of students through his online courses.
(玉皇大帝先生通过网络课程已经培训了很多学生。)
limit n.表示“界限， 限度， 限制”。
例如：There is a limit to the amount of money I can afford. (我能付得起的钱数是有限的。)
limit vt.表示“减少，限制， 限定(常与to搭配)”。
例如：To control my weight, I must limit the amount of food that I eat. (为了控制体重，我必须减少我吃的食物的数量。)
follow v.表示“跟随， 追随，追求；理解； 遵循”等等。
如：I am so pure that I cannot follow his dirty jokes. (纯洁的我搞不懂他讲的荤段子。)
【参考译文及解析】
He asserted, also, that his powerto follow a long and purely abstract train of thoughtwas very limited, for which reason he felt certain that he never could have succeeded with mathematics.
他还认为，在理解一系列冗长且完全抽象的观点方面（05.分），自己的能力非常有限（05.分）；因此，他深信自己（05.分）在数学方面不可能获得成功（05.分）。
(1)本句是一个主从复合句，主句的主干是he asserted that (his power was very limited)，还有两个that引导的宾语从句、一个for引导的原因状语从句，。
(2)主句所含的宾语从句中，主干是his power was very limited; to follow a long and purely abstract train of thought是不定式作后置定语修饰his power。
(3)for引导的原因（状语）中所含的宾语从句是he never could have succeeded with mathematics，由于太长，将其放在宾补certain之后。
没懂？那就把he feels certain that 从句，当一个固定搭配来记吧，译为：他确信……
【明日预告】
2008年(48)
On the other hand, he did not accept as well founded the charge made by some of his critics that, while he was a good observer, he had no power of reasoning.