每日長(zhǎng)難句 27

Hofstadter says our country’s educational system is in the grips of people who “joyfully and militantly proclaim their hostility to intellect and their eagerness to identify with children who show the least intellectual promise.”

【2004 Text 4】

單詞：

?educational system 教育體制

?in the grips of... 受……的控制

?grip n. 掌握，控制

?militantly adv. 強(qiáng)硬地；好戰(zhàn)地

?proclaim v. 宣布，宣告；明確顯示

?hostility n. 敵意，敵對(duì)；戰(zhàn)斗行動(dòng)

?intellect n. 才智，智力

?eagerness n. 急切，渴望

?identify v. 認(rèn)同，認(rèn)出，識(shí)別；支持

?intellectual promise 才智上的前途?

分析長(zhǎng)難句：

找謂語(yǔ)動(dòng)詞：

Hofstadter says our country’s educational system is in the grips of people who “joyfully and militantly proclaim their hostility to intellect and their eagerness to identify with children who show the least intellectual promise.”

斷開長(zhǎng)難句：

Hofstadter says / our country’s educational system is in the grips of people / who “joyfully and militantly proclaim their hostility to intellect and their eagerness to identify with children / who show the least intellectual promise.”

①主句：Hofstadter says

②賓語(yǔ)從句：our country’s educational system is in the grips of people

③定語(yǔ)從句：who “joyfully and militantly proclaim their hostility to intellect and their eagerness to identify with children

④定語(yǔ)從句：who show the least intellectual promise

??平行結(jié)構(gòu)

① joyfully and militantly

② their hostility to intellect and their eagerness to identify with children

譯文：

霍夫斯坦特說，我們國(guó)家的教育體制掌握在這樣一群人手里，他們“沾沾自喜地、強(qiáng)硬地宣布自己對(duì)才智的敵意，并且急切地對(duì)那些在才智上沒什么前途的孩子表示認(rèn)同”。