20190802长难句 / 四六文摘

【前文回顾：速看速决】

A sacred place of peace, however crude it may be, is a distinctly human need, as opposed to shelter, which is a distinctly animal need.

译文1：一个静谧的圣地，无论它多么简陋，都是人类特有的需求，这不同于避难栖息地，那是明显是动物需要的。

译文2：无论一个地方多么简陋不堪，寻求一片静谧圣土是人类特有的需求，而动物需要的仅是避难栖息之地。

【今日长难句：细读】

This distinction is so much so that where the latter is lacking, as it is for these unlikely gardens, the former becomes all the more urgent.

【结构解析】

1.本句主句为This distinction is so much;

2. so that where the latter is lacking, the former becomes all the more urgent.是so that 引导的结果状语从句，修饰主句，其中where the latter is lacking又是地点状语从句，修饰the former becomes all the more urgent;

3. as it is for these unlikely gardens 是由as引导的方式状语从句，修饰整个句子，同时又由两个逗号隔开作插入语。

【词的处理】

distinction / diˈstiŋkʃn / n. 区别

latter / ˈlætə(r) / adj. 后者

former / ˈfɔ:mə(r); NAmE ˈfɔ:rm- / adj. 前者

all the more 更加

【参考译文】

This distinction is so much so that where the latter is lacking, as it is for these unlikely gardens, the former becomes all the more urgent.

这种区别如此大，以至于在后者缺失的地方前者就会变得愈加迫切。对于这些不寻常的花园来说，情形正是如此。

【明日长难句】

Composure is a state of mind made possible by the structuring of one’s relation to one’s environment. The gardens of the homeless which are in effect homeless gardens introduce from into an urban environment where it either didn’t exist or was not discernible as such.

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