每日長難句 196

原句：

Even if we converted all the suitable land to fields of fruit and veg—/ which would involve taking out all the nature reserves and removing thousands of people from their homes/—we would achieve only a 30 per cent boost in crop production.

【2021 英語二 Text2】

單詞：

?convert v. 轉(zhuǎn)變，改變

?reserves 自然保護(hù)區(qū)

?boost n. 增長，提高

分析：

??找謂語動詞

Even if we converted all the suitable land to fields of fruit and veg—which would involve taking out all the nature reserves and removing thousands of people from their homes—we would achieve only a 30 per cent boost in crop production.

??斷開長難句

①讓步狀語從句：Even if we converted all the suitable land to fields of fruit and veg

• 簡化：Even if we converted land to fields

②定語從句：which would involve taking out all the nature reserves and removing thousands of people from their homes

• 簡化：which would involve taking out nature reserves removing thousands of people

③主句：we would achieve only a 30 per cent boost in crop production

• 簡化：we would achieve boost

??平行結(jié)構(gòu)

①fruit and veg

②taking out all the nature reserves and removing thousands of people from their homes

譯文：

即使我們將所有（條件）適合的土地都改造成果園和蔬菜地——這將涉及清除所有自然保護(hù)區(qū)并使成千上萬人搬離家園——我們也只能將作物產(chǎn)量提高30%。