考研英語長難句|Day27

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今日長難句

Her identification of a U-shaped curve in women’s labour participation over 200 years, published in her 1990 book Understanding the Gender Gap, demolished the notion of a simplistic link to economic growth..

她在1990年出版的《理解性別差距》一書中指出,在過去200年裡,女性的勞動參與率呈U型曲線,推翻了將其與經濟增長簡單聯繫在一起的觀念。

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詞彙解析

derive /dɪˈraɪv/ v. 得到,獲得,常用句型derive...from...

insight /ˈɪnsaɪt/ n. 洞見,洞悉

it 文中指代“生活經歷”

wisdom /ˈwɪzdəm/ n. 智慧

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結構分析

✔句子主幹:

even the worst things can become gifts and sources

✔定語從句:

that happen to us

✔定語:

of strength and wisdom

✔狀語:

over time

✔狀語從句:

As long as we derive learning, meaning, understanding, and insight from it

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參考譯文

As long as we derive learning, meaning, understanding, and insight from it, even the worst things that happen to us can become gifts and sources of strength and wisdom over time.

只要我們能從中獲得學習、意義、理解和洞見,隨着時間的推移,即使發生在我們身上的最糟糕的事情也會成爲禮物,變成力量和智慧的源泉。