復雜的主語從句的拆分和理解 例42

例42　No one is in the least interested in the marks a little child gets on his test; what we are interested in is whether we can conclude from his mark on the test that the child will do better or worse than other children of his age at tasks which we think require "general intelligence".

【結構分析】這句話是個有分號的并列句，其中后半句很復雜，分號前面句子的主語是No one，動詞是is interested in，中間有個插入語表示否定，是in the least，賓語是the marks，后面是省略that的定語從句，也就是a little child gets on his test，分號后面的句子的主語是個主語從句，也就是what we are interested in，系動詞是is，表語是個表語從句，是whether...，表語從句里面有賓語從句，也就是we can conclude that...，賓語從句中間有個插入語，也就是from his mark on the test，賓語從句的主干是the child will do better or worse than other children of his age，后面是介詞短語at tasks做狀語，后面是定語從句which we think require "general intelligence"，修飾前面的tasks。

【亮點回放】此句話的亮點在于表語從句套上賓語從句，賓語從句又套上定語從句，三大從句層層相套，很經(jīng)典。

【核心詞匯】

in the least interested in　一點不感興趣

the marks a little child gets on his test　一個小孩在測驗中取得的分數(shù)

what we are interested in　我們所關心的是

conclude from　得出結論

general intelligence　一般智力

【參考譯文】沒有人會對一個小孩在測驗中取得的分數(shù)發(fā)生任何興趣。我們所關心的是我們能否從他的測驗分數(shù)中得出結論：他在我們認為需要一般智力的各項所干的事情中比他同齡的孩子干得好還是差。