考研英语经典长难句背诵

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1. Those forced to exercise their smiling muscles reacted more enthusiastically to funny cartoons than did those whose mouths were contracted in a frown , suggesting that expressions may influence emotions rather than just the other way around . ( 2011 知识运用)

那些被迫锻炼他们微笑肌肉的人比那些嘴型收缩得犹如紧皱的眉毛般的人对滑稽的卡通画册反应更为强烈；这表明表情也可以影响情绪而非只能是情绪影响表情。

2. As boards scrutinize succession plans in response to shareholder pressure , executives who do not get the nod also may wish to move on . ( 2011 Text 2 )

当董事会处于股东的压力仔细审查继任计划时，没有资格继任的高管们也可能想要跳槽。

3. Toyota Motor , for example , alleviated some of the damage from its recall crisis earlier this year with a relatively quick and well-orchestrated social-media response campaign , which included efforts to engage with consumers directly on sites such as Twitter and the social-news site Digg . ( 2011 Text 3 )

例如，丰田汽车以相对快速和精心策划的社会传媒响应活动，包括直接与用户在推特和新闻网Digg上互动等，缓解了年初因召回危机而引发的某些损失。

4. The same dramatic technological changes that have provided marketers with more ( and more diverse ) communications choices have also increased the risk that passionate consumers will voice their opinions in quicker , more visible , and much more damaging ways . ( 2011 Text 3 )

同样是这些重大的技术变革，在它给营销人员带来更多（以及更多样化）沟通选择的同时，也增大了风险，那就是一些充满激情的消费者会以更快捷、更明显和更有破坏性的方式表达他们的观点。

5. It's no surprise that Senior's insightful , provocative magazine cover story , "I love My Children , I Hate My Life ," is arousing much chatter——nothing gets people talking like the suggestion that child rearing is anything less than a completely fulfilling , life-enriching experience . ( 2011 Text 4 )

毫不惊奇，Senior具有深刻见解和煽动性的杂志封面故事《我爱我的孩子，但我讨厌我的生活》正在引起人们的一片热议，——从来没有像“育儿绝不完全是实现自我、丰富生活的体验”的建议一样能引发人的讨论。

6. It turns out that the peculiar way of conducting the experiments may have led to misleading interpretation of what happened . ( 2010 知识运用)

结果发现可能是做实验的特殊方式导致了对实验事实的误导性的解释。

7.Of all the changes that have taken place in English-language newspapers during the past quarter-century , perhaps the most far-reaching has been the inexorable decline in the scope and seriousness of their arts coverage . ( 2010 Text 1 )

注：@inexorable /in'?ks?r?b/ a. 无法改变的；不可阻挡的；无动于衷的；毫不宽容的；不为所动的过去25年在英文报刊发生的所有变化中，影响最为深远的或许就是其艺术报道的范围在不断缩小、严肃性也持续减弱、势头不可遏止。

8. We are even farther removed from the unfocused newspaper reviews published in England between the turn of the 20th century and the eve of World War II , at a time when newsprint was dirt-cheap and stylish arts criticism was considered an ornament to the publications in which it appeared . ( 2010 Text 1 )

20世纪初至二战前夕英国包罗万象的报刊评论和现在更是截然不同。当时，新闻用纸相当便宜，时髦的艺术评论被看作是刊登它的出版物的（一种）装饰。

9. There was a serious business , and even those reviewers who wore their learning lightly , like George Bernard Shaw and Ernest Newman , could be trusted to know what they were about . ( 2010 Text 1 )

他们所从事的是严肃的工作，即便是像萧伯纳和欧内斯特·纽曼一样不夸耀自己学问的评论家也知道自己在做什么，这点足以让人信任。

10. " So few authors have brains enough or literary gift enough to keep their own end up in journalism ," Newman wrote ,"that I am tempted to define ' journalism ' as ' a term of contempt applied by writers who are not read to writers who are .' " ( 2010 Text 1 )

“能够拥有足够的智力或文学天赋来坚持新闻写作的作家是如此之少”，纽曼写道，“以至于我想要把‘新闻写作’定义成不受读者欢迎的作家拿来嘲笑拥有大批读者的作家的‘轻蔑的称呼’”。

11. Curbs on business-method claims would be a dramatic about-face , because it was the Federal Circuit itself that introduced such patents with its 1998 decision in the so-called State Street Bank case , approving a parent on a way of pooling mutual-fund assets . ( 2010 Text 2 )

对商业方法专利权的限制表明法庭态度突然发生了180度转变，因为正是联邦巡回法院在1998年被称为“州街银行案”的决议中引入了这类专利，当时法庭对一种共同投资基金资产的管理方法授予了专利。

12. The Federal Circuit issued an unusual order stating that the case would be heard by all 12 of the court's judges , rather than a typical panel of three , and that one issue it wants to evaluate is whether it should " reconsider " its State Street Bank ruling . ( 2010 Text 2 )

联邦巡回法院发布了一向不同寻常的法令。法令宣布这个案子将由法院的全部12名法官共同听审而不是典型的三人听审团；法令还宣布法院希望评估是否需要“重新考虑”对州街银行案的判决。

13. The IASB says it does not want to ace without overall planning , but the pressure to fold when it completes its reconstruction of rules later this year is strong . ( 2010 Text 4 )

IASB表示不愿意在没有总体规划的情况下有所行动，但在今年晚些时候完成自身规则的改造时，其屈服的压力会非常大。

14. All in all , this clearly seems to be a market in which big retailers could profitably apply their gigantic scale , existing infrastructure , and proven skills in the management of product ranges , logistics , and marketing intelligence . ( 2010 阅读Part B )

注：@scale / skeil / v.(down)缩减，缩小；n.刻度，标度；天平，磅秤，比例尺；规模；

on a large scale大规模的// in ( out of ) scale（不）成比例，（不）相称

派：upscale：a. 高消费阶层的

总的说来，这看来显然是一个大型零售商可以获利的市场。他们利用自己庞大的规模、现有的基础设施、产品系列、物流、营销情报方面成熟的管理技能来获得经济利润。

15. Demand comes mainly from two sources : independent mom-and-pop grocery stores , which unlike large retail chains are too small to buy straight from producers , and food service operators that cater to consumers when they don't eat at home . ( 2010 阅读Part B )

市场需要有两个主要来源：一是私营夫妻杂货店，与大型零售连锁店不同，他们规模太小，不能直接从生产商那里进货；二是餐饮服务经营者，他们满足消费者不在家就餐的需求。

16. Instead of casting a wistful glance backward at all the species we've left in the dust I.Q.-wise , it implicitly asks what the real costs of our own intelligence might be . ( 2009 知识运用)

这个研究不是要回顾那些人类的智力已经远远超过的物种，而是隐含地探索我们自己智力的真正代价

是什么。

17. More recently , while examining housing construction , the researchers discovered that illiterate , non-English-speaking Mexican workers in Houston , Texas , consistently met best-practice labor productivity standards despite the complexity of the building industry's work . ( 2009 Text 3 )

近期，研究者在调查房屋建筑也是发现，尽管建筑业的工作很复杂，但是在德克萨斯州休斯顿市附近的那些不识字、不会说英语的墨西哥工人却能一直达到劳动生产率最佳标准。

18. Besides the ninety or so learned ministers who who came to Massachusetts churches in the decade after 1629 , there were political leaders like John Winthrop , an educated gentleman , lawyer , and official of the Crown before he journeyed to Boston . ( 2009 Text 4 ) [ O(∩_∩)O 背下来]

除1629年之后十年内来到马萨诸塞教会的约90位博学的牧师之外，还有像约翰·文斯洛普（一位受过良好教育的绅士、律师、远航到波士顿之前曾担任王室官员）这样的政治领袖。

19. Meanwhile , many settlers had slighter religious commitments than Dane's , as one clergyman learned in confronting folk along the coast who mocked that they had not come to the New Would for religion . ( 2009 Text 4 )

此外，很多移民并没有丹奈这么虔诚的宗教信仰，正如一位牧师在与沿海地区渔民相遇时所了解到的：他们嘲弄地说来新大陆不是为了宗教。

20. He argued that human evolution was characterized by a struggle he called the " survival of the fittest ," in which weaker races and societies must eventually be replaced by stronger , more advanced races and societies . ( 2009 阅读Part B ) [ 挺好的一定背下来]

他认为人类进化得特点是他称之为“适者生存”的斗争。在这场斗争中，弱小的种族和社会终将被更强大、更先进的种族和社会所取代。

21. This group generally do well in IQ test , scoring 12-15 points above the mean value of 100 , and have contributed disproportionately to the intellectual and cultural life of the West , as the careers of their elites , including several world-renowned scientists , affirm . ( 2008 知识运用)

受试人群在智商测试中普遍表现良好，得分比平均值高12-15分，并且为西方知识和文化界做出了巨大的贡献，他们中的精英——其中包括数位闻名世界的科学家——所从事的职业足以证明这一点。

22. The kinds of interpersonal violence that women are exposed to tend to be in domestic situations , by , unfortunately , parents or other family members , and they tend not to be one-shot deals . ( 2008 Text 1 )

而女性遭受的人际间暴力却多发生在家庭内部，不幸的是这种暴力是家庭暴力，来自于父母或其他家庭成员，而且通常都不是一次性的。

23. Other models exist that are hybrids of these three , such as delayed open-access , where journals allow only subscribers to read a paper for the first six months , before making it freely available to everyone who wishes to see it . ( 2008 Text 2 )

还有一些模式是这三种的混合，如延迟开放存取，即一些刊物前六个月只允许付费订阅者阅读论文，然后才免费提供给所有想阅读的人。

24. They have been spurred in part by DNA evidence made available in 1998 , which almost certainly proved Thomas Jefferson had fathered at least one child with his slave Sally Hemings . ( 2008 Text 4 )

他们的兴趣部分源自1998年的DNA证据，它几乎肯定的证明了托马斯·杰斐逊曾与其奴隶萨利·郝明斯育有至少一个孩子。

25. This success , coupled with later research showing that memory itself is not genetically determined , led Ericson to conclude that the act of memorizing is more of a cognitive exercise than intuitive . ( 2007 Text 1 ) 这次实验的成功以及后来的研究都表明，记忆力本身并不是由遗传决定的。埃里克森得出结论：记忆行为与其说是一种直觉行为，不如说是一种认知活动。[ 句式结构]

26. Anyone who has toiled through SAT will testify that test-taking skill also matters , whether it's knowing when to guess or what questions to skip . ( 2007 Text 2 )

任何参加过“学术评估测验”的人都可以证明，应试技能也很重要，无论是知道何时应该猜测还是什么题目可以略过不答。

27. As a result , they have lost the parachute they once had in times of financial setback——a backup earner ( usually Mom ) who could go into the workforce if the primary earner got laid off or fell sick . (2007 Text 3) 结果，他们失去了经济困难那时起的“保护伞”——当家庭主要经济支柱失业或生病时还有候补者（通常是母亲）可以出去工作。

28. Just as bosses and boards have finally sorted out their worst accounting and compliance troubles , and improved their feeble corporation governance , a new problem threatens to earn them——especially in America——the sort of nasty headlines that inevitably lead to heads rolling in the executive suite : data insecurity . ( 2007 Text 4 ) [ 小复杂]

当老板和董事会终于解决了最糟糕的财务和规章问题并加强了企业管理力度之后，一个新的问题——数据安全问题——正威胁着他们，使他们出现在令人讨厌的（尤其是美国的）头版头条新闻中，企业管理层进而不可避免的受到惩罚。

29. Surely it should be obvious to the dimmest executive that trust , that most valuable of economic assets , is easily destroyed and hugely expensive to restore——and that few things are more likely to destroy trust than a company letting sensitive personal data get into the wrong hands . ( 2007 Text 4 )

甚至最愚笨的管理人员也必定清楚地知道：信任，这个经济资产中最有价值的东西，很容易遭到破坏而恢复起来则代价高昂；没有什么比企业任由机密个人信息落入别有用心的人手中更能破坏信任了。

30. Meanwhile , the theft of information about some 40 million credit-card accounts in America , disclosed on June 17th , overshadowed a hugely important decision a day earlier by America's Federal Trance Commission ( FTC ) that put corporate America on notice that regulators will act if firms fail to provide adequate data security . ( 2007 Text 4 ) [ 也是很好的]

与此同时，6月16日美国联邦贸易委员会作出重大决定，通知美国商界如果公司不能充分保障数据的安全，那么监督机构就会采取措施。但是17日披露的美国大约四千万信用卡账户信息失窃案件却使得上述决定黯然失色。

31. People are absorbed into " a culture of consumption " launched by the 19th-century department stores that offered " vast arrays of goods in an elegant atmosphere ." ( 2006 Text 1 )

你们沉迷于一种19世纪的百货商店掀起的“消费文化”中。这些商店“在优雅的环境中供应琳琅满目的商品”。

32. They all seem to look alike ( though they come from all over )——lean , pointed , dedicated faces , wearing jeans and sandals , eating their buns and bedding down for the night on the flagstones outside the theatre to buy the 20 seats and 80 standing-roon tickets held for the sleepers and sold to them when the box office opens at 10:30 a.m . ( 2006 Text 2 )

他们来这里就是为了欣赏戏剧，而不是观光。他们虽然来自世界各地，看起来却都很像——身材消瘦，语言直率、神情执着，穿着牛仔裤和凉鞋，啃着圆面包，躺在剧院外的石板上过夜，等着买20张座位

票和80张站票。这些票是为露宿者准备的，在上午10点半售票处开门时他们就可以买到。

33. That means a higher proportion of what is in the sea is being caught , so the real difference between present and past is likely to be worse than the one recorded by changes in catch sizes . ( 2006 Text 6 )

这就意味着更高比例的海洋物种正在被捕捞，因此现在和过去之间的真正差异可能比用捕捞规模变化记录的要更糟糕。

34. That matters because theory suggests that the maximum sustainable yield that can be cropped from a fishery comes when the biomass of a target species is about 50% of its original levels . ( 2006 Text 3 )

而这很重要，因为理论认为当目标物种的生物量达到原始数基的50%左右时，从渔场中能够获得最大的可持续产量。

35. Today , surrounded by promises of easy happiness , we need art to tell us , as religion once did , Memento mori : remember that you will die , that everything ends , and that happiness comes not in denying this but in living with it . ( 2006 Text 4 )

如今，我们的周围充斥着唾手可得的幸福的承诺，我们需要艺术来告诉我们，正如宗教曾经告诉过我们的：记得你终将死亡，一切都会结束，幸福的到来不是因为否认这一点，而是对其加以忍受。

36. Noting the " medical/psychological " nature of problem gambling behavior , the letter said that before being readmitted to the casino he would have to present medical/psychological information demonstrating that patronizing the casino would pose no threat to his safety or well-being . ( 2006 阅读Part B ) [ 很好]

在说明不良赌博行为对人生理和心理的危害的同时，书信也提到他在获准再次光顾赌场前，他必须出示生理和心理状况相关信息，以证明光顾赌场不会对他的安全和健康造成任何威胁。

37. Pushed by science , or what claims to be science , society is reclassifying what once were considered character flaws or moral failings as personality disorders akin to physical disabilities . ( 2006 阅读Part B ) 在科学或所谓“科学”的推动下，社会将从前我们认为的性格缺陷、道德过失重新划分为类似于生理障碍的“人格疾病”。

38. It is worrisome that society is medicalizing more and more behavioral problems , often defining as addictions what earlier , sterner generations explained as weakness of will . ( 2006 阅读Part B )

令人不安的是，社会现在将越来越多的行为问题医学化，过去被更为严厉的上一代解释为意志薄弱的行为现在常常被定义为“沉溺症”。

39. The explanation for insensitivity to smell seems to be that the brain finds it inefficient to keep all smell receptors working all the time but can create new receptors if necessary . ( 2005 知识运用) [ 翻译]

对气味不敏感的解释似乎是大脑发现让所有的气体感受器一直工作效率太低，但是在必要时大脑人可以产生新的感受器。

40. The brain is as active during REM( rapid eye movement ) sleep——when most vivid dreams occur——as it is when fully awake , says Dr. Eric at the University of Pittsburgh . ( 2005 Text 3 )

匹兹堡大学的艾瑞克博士说，大脑在出现清晰梦境的快速动眼睡眠中和完全清醒时一样活跃。

41. Most people seem to have bad dreams early in the night , progressing toward happier ones before awakening , suggesting that they are working through negative feelings generated during the day . (05 Text 3) 大多数人似乎在晚上入睡的较早阶段做更多不好的梦，而在快醒来前会逐渐做开心一些的梦，这说明人们在梦里渐渐克服了白天的不良情绪。[ 留意翻译]