长难句精读丨Vol.09-考研真题实例句子解读

paradox

n.自相矛盾；悖论

recruit

n.新兵；新成员 v.招募（新兵），招收（新成员）

first-generation

第一代的

reproduce

v.复制；繁殖；生育；生殖

widen

v.加宽；拓展

rather than

而不是

gap

n.缺口；差距；隔阂

based on

基于；以...为根据

social class

社会阶层；社会阶级

forthcoming

adj.即将发生的；准备好的；现成的

This has created a "paradox" in that recruiting  first-generation students, but then watching m-any of them fail, means that higher education  has continued to reproduce and widen, rather  than close achievement gap based on social cl-ass, according to the depressing beginning of a paper forthcoming in the journal Psychological Science.

①本句是主从复合句，其中主句部分 This has create-d a "paradox" 为主谓宾结构，表示“这造成了一个矛盾”。"This"是主语，指代前文内容"has created"是谓语动词，使用现在完成时，a "paradox"是宾语。

②in that recruiting first-generation students,   but then watching many of them fail, means t-hat higher education has continued to reprod-uce and widen, rather than close achievement gap based on social class.in that 是复合连词，相当于 because 或者for the reason that，引导原因状语从句，修饰主句谓语has created，说明“为什么”会产生这个悖论。

③according to the depressing beginning of a  paper forthcoming in the journal Psychological Science 是介词短语作状语，说明整个判断的依据来源。核心结构：according to the beginning of a  paper，修饰语：depressing 修饰 beginning；for-thcoming in the journal *Psychological Science* 是形容词短语作后置定语，修饰 paper。

语法成分：This has created a "paradox" in that   recruiting first-generation students, but then watching many of them fail, means that higher education has continued to reproduce and wid-en, rather than close achievement gap based o-n social class, according to the depressing beg-inning of a paper forthcoming in the journal P-sychological Science.

【翻译】：这就产生了一个“悖论”，因为招收第一代大学生，然后看着他们中的大多数人走向失败，这意味着高等教育在“继续复制和扩大，而非缩小”基于社会阶层的成就差距，一篇即将发表在《心理科学》杂志上的论文令人沮丧的开篇这样写道。

It seems most people would be better off if th-ey could shorten their commutes to work, spe-nd more time with friends and family and less of it watching television (something the avera-ge American spends a whopping two months a year doing, and is hardly jollier for it)

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