考研英語真題同源難句精選之比較結構

　　七、比較結構

　　【難句40】Keep in mind, though, it’s much more important to be able to show your manager how you contributed to the company’s results (such as incremental revenue or reduced cost) than just a difference in pay between you and someone else. (Business Week Feb. 5, 2007)

　　【結構分析】本句使用了more…than…的比較結構。以副詞though所充當的分詞結構切入，本句為祈使句，keep后的賓語由省略了that的名詞性從句充當。在此從句中，使用了it作形式主語，不定式結構to be able to show your manager…作真正主語的形式，show后是雙賓語結構，than并列了比較的兩端，為(show your manager) how you contributed to the company’s results和just a difference in pay between you and someone else。

　　【參考譯文】盡管如此，要記住向你的上司展示你對公司業績的貢獻(比如，提高收入降低成本)要比僅僅展示你和其他人的工資差別更為重要。

　　【難句41】It’s much better for the manager to offer a pay increase, beaming with pride over his or her good judgment in hiring you, than for you to get the same pay increase by having to ask for it. (Business Week Feb. 5, 2007)

　　【結構分析】本句的比較結構與例(40)同，主干為It’s much better for the manager to…than for you to…注意兩個逗號之間的分詞結構beaming with pride over his or her good judgment in hiring you作前文It’s much better for the manager to offer a pay increase的目的狀語。

　　【參考譯文】上司為你加薪——為他或她錄用你的判斷而自豪高興，要比自己為獲得同樣的加薪而要求更好。

　　【難句42】Women’s control over the number of children they have is an unqualified good—as is the average person’s enjoyment, in rich countries, of ten more years of life than they had in 1960. (The Economist Jun. 5, 2006)

　　【結構分析】本句主句為Women’s control over the number of children they have is an unqualified good，其中they have為省略了關系代詞的定語從句，修飾先行詞children，破折號部分as is the average person’s enjoyment…為as引導的定語從句，修飾先行詞an unqualified good，注意這里good作名詞用;句末的比較結構of ten more years of life than they had in 1960使用了than加從句，整體作從句中表語the average person’s enjoyment的后置定語。

　　【結構分析】女人擁有一種絕對的優勢，那就是對自己生孩子的數量的掌控。在發達國家，對普通人而言，能比六十年代的人多享受十年的生活也同樣是種絕對優勢。

　　【難句43】Moreover, most participants could find an angry face just as quickly when it was mixed in a group of eight photographs as when it was part of a group of four. (The Economist Jun. 8, 2006)

　　【結構分析】本句的比較結構清晰，使用了as…as…形式，比較的兩端為when it was mixed in a group of eight photographs和 when it was part of a group of four。

　　【參考譯文】另外，不管這些圖片是八張一組還是四張一組，參與者都能同樣迅速地辨別出憤怒的表情。