【英语】2012年英语真题文本精讲138期
2012年text2 第三段
①I had not realized how profoundly marketing trends dictated our perception of what is natural to kids, including our core beliefs about their psychological development. ②Take the toddler.③ I assumed that phase was something experts developed after years of research into children’s behaviour: wrong. ④Turns out, according to Daniel Cook, a historian of childhood consumerism, it was popularized as a marketing trick by clothing manufacturers in the 1930s.
句子切分:
第一句:
1. I had not realized
2. how profoundly marketing trends dictated our perception
3. ( perception) of what is natural to kids, including our core beliefs about their psychological development.
翻译解析:我原来(时态翻译出来)没有意识到,我们对孩子天性的看法会深受市场营销的趋势的影响(主动被动翻),包括他们的心理发展这个核心观念。
第二句:
Take the toddler.
以学步期儿童为例。
第三句:
1. I assumed
2. that phase was something
3. (something) experts developed after years of research into children’s behaviour:
4. (it’s) wrong.
翻译解析:我本以为该阶段(学步期)是专家们经过多年研究儿童行为后发展出来的词汇:错。
第四句:
1. (it)Turns out(that)
2. it was popularized as a marketing trick by clothing manufacturers in the 1930s.
3. , according to Daniel Cook, a historian of childhood consumerism,
翻译解析:根据儿童消费史学家Daniel Cook的观点(插入语前置),它(学步期)事实上从20世纪30年代(时间状前置)才开始流行,是服装制造商的营销伎俩。
动词及短语(重点):
dictate:命令,指示,这里表示决定,相当于decide;真题重要义项;
perceive(动词,认知)-perception(名词,认识,看法)
take:在这里表示以什么为例;完整的应该是take sth for example;
assume:这里表示假设,设想,料想;在这里直接翻译成认为便可;assume在我们真题中还考察过其他义项:如采取和承担的义项,也非常重要;
popular-popularize(动词,使流行)
其他相关词汇:
toddle(蹒跚学步)-toddler(学步儿童)
phase:阶段,相当于stage;注意与phrase短语,表达2011年text3相区别;
consumer消费者-consumerism消费者主义(用户至上主义)
trick:花招,骗局;
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