2009年考研英语阅读理解精读100篇（高分版）TEXT 4

难句突破：

(1)    In this edition of his later poems, a substantial gathering of verses selected from six volumes published over the past 20 years, his poetry does not so much consist of themes to be explored as comic routines to be improvised.

[主体结构] His poetry does not so much consist of ...

[结构分析] 本句为简单句，作状语的介词短语成分比较复杂，a substantial gathering of verses是edition的同位语，该同位语是带有作定语的分词短语。在主句中，不定式短语to be explored...用来修饰themes, 而不定式短语to be improvised 又用来修饰comic routines.

[句子译文] 他这本晚些出版的诗集选编了过去20年间出版的六本诗集中的诗歌，其主题不再是象那种临时准备的老套滑稽节目，他戏谑诗歌本身具有严肃性这个话题

(2) This is often the poet's stock-in-trade, but he seems to single them out in order to send up the very idea of the simile in poetry, as in "Violets blossomed loudly/ like a swear word in an empty tank".

[主体句式] This is ... but he ...

[结构分析] 这是一个并列句，后面分句成份较为复杂，带有一个不定式短语作目的状语，as 引导成分修饰的是整个分句。

[句子译文] 虽然这是诗人的惯用手法，但他却把这些比喻单独挑出来，以突出诗里面明喻这个概念。比如"紫罗兰纵声开放/ 宛如空桶里的一句毒誓"。

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