雅思考试小技巧——雅思阅读长难句分析

长难句中最常见的就是修饰性成分过多的长难句。对于这种句子，我们要做的就是找出主谓宾，省去修饰性成分。常见的修饰性成分有：从句、状语、补足语等。下面我们来举个例子：

For instance, the very women who had been drawn to him by the penetrating intuition of the female heart that he showed in his novels were appalled to discover how insensitive and awkward the real man could be.

大家都能够很容易的找出本句的主语应该是the very women，接下来我们要去找谓语动词。在读的过程中需要省略修饰性成分，因此，要把who开始的部分省略。who had been drawn to him by the penetrating intuition of the female heart均是用来修饰women的，而之后的that部分修饰就近的名词intuition（intuition of the female heart的中心词是intuition）。忽略掉这两个从句部分我们就能够看到这句的谓语动词were了。之后的how部分又是一个从句，解释说明discover的内容。所以可以很清楚的找出本句的主干：the very women were appalled to discover。

参考译文：例如，那些被他在小说中展现出来的对女人心灵的敏锐直觉所吸引的女人们，非常震惊地发现，他在现实生活中是多么愚笨。
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