雅思必背的长句100句(带分析)

雅思必背的长句100句（带分析）

1. Typical of the grassland dwellers of the continent is the American antelope, or pronghorn.

（“主-系-表”结构，倒装句。）

2. Of the millions who saw Haley's comet in 1986, how many people will live long enough to see it return in the twenty-first century?

（of 介词短语提前到句首，起强调作用，“常规位置”应在主谓之间，即people与will live之间。）

3. Anthropologists have discovered that fear, happiness, sadness and surprise are universally reflected in facial expressions.

（含有宾语从句的主从复合句，主句为现在完成时，从句为一般现在时被动语态。）

4. Because of its irritating effect on humans, the use of phenol as a general antiseptic has been largely discontinued.

（简单句，现在完成时，被动语态，because of 介词短语作原因状语。）

5. In order to remain in existence, a profit-making organization must, in the long run, produce something consumers consider useful or desirable.

（含有定语从句的主从复合句，定语从句的引导词that在从句中作consider的宾语，故省略，useful or desirable 是形容词作宾语补足语；in order to do sth. 是不定式短语作目的状语的强调形式；in the long run 意为“长远看来”/“最终”。）

6. The greater the population there is in a locality, the greater the need there is for water, transportation, and disposal of refuse.

（"The more..., the more... " 特殊句型，通常译为“越……，越……”；there be 句型；refuse 在此不是“拒绝”的意思，而是“废物, 垃圾”。）

7. It is more difficult to write simply, directly and effectively than to employ flowery but vague expressions that only obscure one's meaning.

（含有比较状语从句和定语从句的复合句，than 引导的比较状语从句为避免重复省略了谓语部分"it is difficult"；此句的重点是it 代替不定式短语作“形式主句”，原因是避免“头重脚轻”；that 引导的定语从句是普通的“主谓宾”结构，obscure作动词，被从句修饰/

限定的“先行词”是expressions。）

8. With modern offices becoming more mechanized, designers are attempting to personalize them with warmer, less severe interiors.

（简单句；典型的"with + n. + 分词短语" 独立主格结构，作状语；attempt 要求用不定

式作宾语；形容词的比较级；interiors在此是名词，意为“内部装饰”。）

9. The difference between libel and slander is that libel is printed while slander is spoken.

（含有表语从句的主从复合句，主句为“主-系-表”结构，从句是并列句；该句是表述区别的典型句式：The difference between A and B is that A ... while B .... ；between 介词短语作后置定语。）

10. The knee is the joint where the thigh bone meets the large bone of the lower leg.

（含有定语从句的主从复合句，从句引导词是关系副词where，相当于at which，从句是“主-谓-宾”结构，一般现在时；主句是“主-系-表”结构，一般现在时。）

11. Acids are chemical compounds that, in water solution, have a sharp taste, a corrosive action on metals, and the ability to turn certain blue vegetable dyes red.

（“主-系-表”结构，名词性表语带有一个由that引导的限制性定语从句，从句是“主-谓-宾”结构，宾语是三个并列的名词a taste, an action and the ability；其中ability后跟不定式短语作定语，该短语中的red是宾语补足语。）

12. Billie Holiday's reputation as a great jazz-blues singer rests on her ability to give emotional depth to her songs.