【英语】2014年真题文本精讲163期
2014年text1 第三段
①This slim volume is packed with tips to help wage slaves as well as lottery winners get the most “happiness bang for your buck.”② It seems most people would be better off if they could shorten their commutes to work, spend more time with friends and family and less of it watching television (something the average American spends a whopping two months a year doing, and is hardly jollier for it).③Buying gifts or giving to charity is often more pleasurable than purchasing things for oneself, and luxuries are most enjoyable when they are consumed sparingly. ④This is apparently the reason MacDonald's restricts the availability of its popular McRib — a marketing trick that has turned the pork sandwich into an object of obsession.
句子切分:
第一句:
1. This slim volume is packed with tips
2. to help wage slaves as well as lottery winners get the most “happiness bang for your buck.”(help sb do sth)
翻译解析:这本薄薄的书给工薪阶层以及彩票中奖者大量的建议,以帮助他们从消费中获得最大的幸福。
第二句:
1. It seems most people would be better off
2. if they could shorten their commutes to work, spend more time with friends and family and less of it watching television
3. (something the average American spends a whopping two months a year doing, and is hardly jollier for it).
翻译解析:对于大多数人来说,如果能缩短上下班的时间,多与家人和朋友相处,少看电视(美国人每年整整花掉两个月的时间来看电视,却并不会因此感到快乐)(状语从句提前翻),他们会感到更幸福。
第三句:
1. Buying gifts or giving to charity is often more pleasurable than purchasing things for oneself,
2. and luxuries are most enjoyable when they are consumed sparingly.
翻译解析:买礼物或者行善比给自己买东西更快乐;有节制地进行奢饰品消费(状语从句前置)也会让人感觉更愉悦。
第四句:
1. This is apparently the reason
2. MacDonald's restricts the availability of its popular McRib (省略that的定语从句)
3. — a marketing trick that has turned the pork sandwich into an object of obsession.(句末插入语)
翻译解析:这显然是麦当劳限量出售其广受欢迎的(定语从句前置)烤汁猪排堡的原因——一种营销手段,可以把猪肉三明治变成人们着迷的对象。(定语从句信息过大,分开翻译)
动词及短语(重点):
be packed with sth:挤满,塞满;在真题2012-3中也考察了该词的用法,而且就该义项设置了题目;重点表达;
be jolly for :因。。而愉快
purchase:前面该词被用做名词,第二出现用做动词,表示购买,消费,就相当于buy/consume;
spare(在这里用作动词,节约)-sparingly(由动词变成现在分词,加ly形成副词,表示节俭地)
其他相关词汇:
slim:薄的;瘦的;前面真题有出现过slimmer product更少的(报纸)内容;
tip:本文表示小建议;该词还可用来表示小费;
wage(工资) slave(s)(奴隶)
commute:通勤;重要词汇,真题翻译中有考察过该单词;
whopping:巨大的,很大的;
charity(慈善)-charitable(慈善的,2011-2)
pleasure(名词,愉快,快乐)-pleasurable(愉快的)-enjoyable(愉悦的):本文中这几个词可以做近义词替换;
luxury:奢侈的;
apparently-evidently-clearly:这三个单词都可以表示明显的,可以相互替换;
available(可获得的,可购买到的)-availability(可用性,可得到性)
trick:伎俩,诡计;
object:本文用作名词表示目标;真题中还考察过其作为动词表示拒绝;其形容词objective表示客观的意思在态度题中频繁出现;
obsession:着迷,上瘾;
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