🔍 真题长难句精析

We tend to think of the decades immediately following World War II as a time of prosperity and growth, with soldiers returning home by the millions, going off to college on the G. I. Bill and lining up at the marriage bureaus.——2011 年英语二 Text3

✏️ 生词及短语

tend to do sth：倾向于做某事

following

常见义：adj. 其次的；n. 追随者句中义：prep. 在…… 以后

prosperity：n. 繁荣，成功

go off：离开（去做某事）

the G.I. Bill：《退伍军人权利法案》

line up：排成一行，排队

bureau

常见义：局，处；办公桌句中义：n. 办事处

📊 句子结构拆解

主干

：We（主语）+ tend to think of（谓语）+ the decades（宾语）+ as a time of prosperity and growth（宾补）

语法点：

①介词following+名词构成介宾结构作后置定语，限定the decades；

②as+名词短语在此处作宾语the decades的补足语，补充说明其形式；

③with+名词+分词结构，为独立主格结构作伴随状语，它所表示的动作和谓语表示的动作或状态是同时发生的，其中returning home by the millions, going off to college on the G.I. Bill和lining up atthe marriage是三个并列的现在分词结构，由and连接。

📖 参考译文

📋 今日熟词僻义（10 个）

💡 今日预习

The phrase “less is more” was actually first popularized by a German, the architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe,who like other people associated with the Bauhaus,a school of design, emigrated to the United States before World War II and took up posts at American architecture schools.——2011 年英语二 Text3