20180522长难句

你们随时开始，我随时都陪着你们！多练一句算一句，每天蹲坑时、坐车时、睡前都可以搞定一个长难句。

＃长难句每日一句＃是一道配菜，建议你首先消化课程所讲内容之后，再每天来一个长难句来填满碎片时间。切不可不听，每天只练一个长难句，那就本末倒置了。

长难句的正确打开方式：先尝试自己分析，然后看下面的解析；如有任何问题（学习情感职场）可以直接分解提问

【昨日回顾】

If circumstances always determined the life and prospects of people, then humanity would never have progressed. In fact, circumstances seem to be designed to bring out the best in us and if we feel that we have been "wronged" then we are unlikely to begin a conscious effort to escape from our situation.

如果环境总是决定人的生活和前途，那么人类将永远不会进步。事实上，环境仿佛就是为了激发我们的最大潜能而设的，如果我们觉得自己遭受了“不公”，就不太可能有意识地去努力摆脱自己的处境。

【今日句子】

Nevertheless, as any biographer knows, a person's early life and its conditions are often the greatest gift to an individual. The sobering aspect of Allen's book is that we have no one else to blame for our present condition except ourselves.

【结构解析】

1. 首句较为简单，句子主干为“主系表”结构，即：a person’s early life and its conditions/ are often/ the greatest gift.

2. nevertheless 在写作中可以替换however; as any biographer knows 类似as we know, 译为：正如任何一位传记作家所知道的那样。

3. 二句主干为“主+系+表从”结构，即：The sobering aspect of Allen’s book/ is/ that …

【词的处理】

nevertheless / ˌnevəðəˈles/ adv. 然而

biographer  / baiˈɔɡrəfə(r)/ n. 传记作家

individual  / ˌindiˈvidʒuəl / n. 个人

sobring / ˈsəubəriŋ; NAmE ˈsou- / adj. 令人警醒的；使人冷静的

blame / bleim / vt. 指责，责备

【参考译文】

Nevertheless, as any biographer knows, a person's early life and its conditions are often the greatest gift to an individual. The sobering aspect of Allen's book is that we have no one else to blame for our present condition except ourselves.

然而，正如任何一位传记作家所知道的那样，一个人的早期生活和生活环境通常是他/她获得的最好礼物。艾伦这本书中令人警醒之处在于它提出：对于我们的现状，除了自己，我们不能责怪任何人。

【明日预告】

The upside is the possibilities contained in knowing that everything is up to us; where before we were experts in the array of limitations, now we become authorities of what is possible.