新托福阅读长难句120 句(分析+译文) 1
Totally without light and subjected to intense pressures hundreds of times greater than at the Earth’s surface ,the deep—ocean bottom is a hostile environment to humans,in some ways as forbidding and remote as the void of outer space
(定语后置in some ways…) 由于完全没有光,而且承受着比在地球表面大数百倍的极大压力,深海底部对人类而言是一个充满敌意的环境,在某些方面就像外层空间一样险恶和遥远
分句1:Totally without light and subjected to intense pressures 分句2:hundreds of times greater than at the Earth’s surface 分句3:the deep—ocean bottom is a hostile environment to humans 分句4:in some ways as forbidding and remote as the void of outer space 分句2 修饰分句1 结尾的短语intense pressures, 分句1 是分句3 的原因状语 分句3 是整个长句子的主句 分句4 是分句3 的后置定语,修饰分句3 的a hostile environment to humans 整个句子结构是: 原因状语+主句+后置定语 这是主句前后分别有状语和定语的修饰成分,但是本句其实不是复合句
句子的核心意思是深海对于人类而言是一个充满敌意的环境