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　　句子一：

　　Arguing from the view that humans are different from animals in every relevant respect, extremists of this kind think that animals lie outside the area of moral choice.

　　句子分析：

　　第一、句子可以拆分为三段：

　　Arguing from the view that humans are different from animals in every relevant

　　respect, / extremists of this kind think / that animals lie outside the area of

　　moral choice.

　　第二、句子的结构：

　　1)主干结构是extremists of this kind think that… 其中that引导宾语从句，Arguing from.。.是现在分词短语作状语。

　　2) the view和后面的从句that.。.是同位语关系

　　第三、词的处理：

　　Arguing from the view 从……观点看，持……观点

　　different from... 与……不同

　　in every relevant respect 在各相关方面

　　extremists 极端主义者，持极端观点的人

　　lie outside the area of moral choice 不在道德问题范围，与道德取舍无关

　　参考译文：

　　这类人持极端看法，认为人与动物在各相关方面都不相同，对待动物无须考虑道德问题。

　　句子二：

　　But even more important, it was the farthest that scientists had been able to looks into the past, for what they were seeing were the patterns and structures that existed 15 billion years ago.

　　句子分析：

　　第一、句子可以拆分为三段：

　　But even more important, it was the farthest that scientists had been able to looks into the past, / for what they were seeing were the patterns and structures / that existed 15 billion years ago.

　　第二、句子主干结构是：主句+ for +原因状语从句。

　　主句是强调句it was... that.。.被强调部分the farthest是后面句子的状语，可以理解为scientists had been able to look the farthest into the past

　　2) for.。.引导的原因状语从句是一个系表结构，what they were seeing是从句中的主语，that引导定语从句修饰the patterns and structures。

　　第三、词的处理：

　　even more important 更为重要的是

　　he patterns and structures (宇宙云的)形状和结构

　　15 billion years ago 150亿年前

　　参考译文：

　　更为重要的是，这是科学家们所能观测到的最遥远的过去的景象，因为他们看到的是150亿年前宇宙云的形状和结构。

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