介绍:
海天考研每日作业
●真题长难句
The United States is the product of two principal forces——the immigrations of European peoples with their varied ideas, customs and national characteristics and the impact of a new country which modified these traits.（2015翻译第二题）
劈树：本句含有两个谓语部分，“is”，“modified”，所以可以切分为 两个分句。
第一分句为：The United States is the product of two principal forces——the immigrations of European peoples with their varied ideas, customs and national characteristics and the impact of a new country；
第二分句为：which modified these traits；
造竹：第一分句为主句，第二分句为定语从句。
难词（词组）及在句中的含义：
principal force （重要力量）
custom （民俗）
impact （影响）
modify （改变）
trait （特征）
第一分句为：The United States is the product of two principal forces——the immigrations of European peoples with their varied ideas, customs and national characteristics and the impact of a new country；
“product”的含义为“产物”；
“principal forces”的含义为“重要力量”；
破折号后的内容是对“two principal forces”的解释说明，“the immigrations of European peoples with their varied ideas, customs and national characteristics and the impact of a new country ”结构可以简化为“the A of B and the C of D”；
“A”为“immigrations”；
“B” 为“European peoples with their varied ideas, customs and national characteristics”；
“C”为“impact”;
“D”为“a new country”；
第一种力量为“the immigrations of European peoples with their varied ideas, customs and national characteristics”，翻译为“具有多元的思想，民俗及民族特色的欧洲移民”；
第二种力量为“the impact of a new country”，翻译为“新国家的影响”；
第一分句翻译为：美国是两股重要力量的产物——具有多元的思想，民俗及民族特色的欧洲移民以及新国家的影响；
第二分句为：which modified these traits；
第二分句是第一分句中“the impact of a new country”的定语从句，翻译为“改变这些特征的”，由于定语从句较短，可以置于所修饰词之前；
第二分句翻译为：改变这些特征的；
原文回顾：
The United States is the product of two principal forces——the immigrations of European peoples with their varied ideas, customs and national characteristics and the impact of a new country which modified these traits.
全句翻译为：美国是两股重要力量的产物——具有多元的思想，民俗及民族特色的欧洲移民以及改变这些特征的新国家的影响。
句式结构考点：破折号引出解释说明；“the A of B and the C of D”；定语从句；
难度级别：
短语背诵：
two principal forces
with their varied ideas, customs and national characteristics
●明日预告
But the force of geographic conditions peculiar to America, the interplay of the varied national groups upon one another, and the sheer difficulty of maintaining old-world ways in a raw, new continent caused significant changes.（2015翻译第三题）

●智慧点滴
An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity; a pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity.
乐观者于每一次灾难中看到机遇；悲观者于每一次机遇中看到灾难。
