托福聽力長難句分析(十二)

 同學(xué)們在學(xué)習(xí)托福聽力的過程中，最頭疼的就是句子的理解，尤其是長難句。但是相對于閱讀文本來說，托福聽力的問題其實(shí)是比較簡單的，我們在理解句子的時(shí)候基本只要考劃分句子的主干成分，配合一些短語搭配就可以了，但是關(guān)鍵是要求我們的反應(yīng)速度要非常的快，我們現(xiàn)在就具體以TPO中的句子為例，來分析一下長難句。(TPO2-L2)

That, if they start at one end of the bridge and they work to the other end, by the time they finish, it’s already time to go back and start painting the beginning of the bridge again, because the bridge was built with steel cables, and steel cables can’t take the salt air unless they’re treated repeatedly with a zinc-based paint.

如果工人們從一頭開始一直安裝到另一頭，到他們完工的時(shí)候就要回來重新油漆一遍了，因?yàn)榻痖T大橋是由鋼絲建成的，鋼絲在咸性的空氣中非常容易腐蝕，除非反復(fù)給鋼絲涂上顏料。

On the other hand, plant products like Manila hemp, you can drag through the ocean for weeks on end.

但是像馬尼拉麻這樣的植物產(chǎn)品，你可以持續(xù)好幾個(gè)禮拜拖著他們穿過海洋。

If you wanna tie your anchor to it and drop it right into the ocean, that’s no problem, because plant fibers can stand up for months, even years, in direct contact with salt water.

如果你想綁上船錨然后把船錨扔進(jìn)海里，這是一點(diǎn)問題都沒有的，因?yàn)橹苯雍扰c咸水接觸的時(shí)候，植物纖維能夠堅(jiān)持好幾個(gè)月甚至好幾年。

OK. So how do you take plant fibers that individually you could break with your hands and turn them into a rope that’s strong enough to moor a ship that weighs thousands of tons?

那么你是如何將只手可以拉斷的植物纖維做成強(qiáng)韌的能夠泊上萬噸船的繩子的?

Well, what you do is you extract these long fibers from the Manila hemp plant, and then you take several of these fibers, and you group them into a bundle, because by grouping the fibers you greatly increase their breaking strength—that bundle of fibers is much stronger than any of the individual fibers that compose it.

你需要做的是從馬尼拉麻里抽出這些長纖維，然后從中拿出幾縷揉成一根，通過這樣的揉搓可以極大的加強(qiáng)這些纖維的強(qiáng)韌度，這一根的強(qiáng)度比其中任何一縷纖維都要強(qiáng)得多。

And then you take that bundle of fibers and you twist it a little bit, because by twisting it, you increase its breaking strength even more.

之后，再拿揉搓好的那根，再次的捻一下，這樣能讓其強(qiáng)度變的更大。

And then you take several of these little bundles, and you group and twist them into bigger bundles, which you then group and twist into even bigger bundles, and so on, until eventually, you end up with a very, very strong rope.

再后來，將揉搓好的這些纖維編織成更粗的繩子，一直重復(fù)這個(gè)過程，知道做出很粗的纜繩。

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