考研 ENGLISH长难句
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1) I wonder if, by way of similar extraordinary facts that I cannot predict, I may feel more at home in Europe than on my deeply loved stretches of land in the United States.(2) I sometimes wish that photography were solely the domain of artists who photograph rather than a tool so commonly used for the reproduction of artworks.(3) Reproduction fatally weakens the force of art, reducing its presence to mere information and thus rendering it accessible in way that makes it easy to miss the point of view.(4) Since the eighteenth century ,most of our great moralists have at one time or another turned their attention to the language ,reflecting the conviction that the mastery of polite prose is a moral accomplishment .(5) Obviously, we are not bound to use the language just as it was used a hundred years ago, but neither is it in our interest to change the language willy-nilly.(6) Nevertheless, I would not want to claim that there are no improprieties worth bothering about.(7) Beyond the revision of traditional categories, new social conditions call for attention to aspects of language to which early grammarians were indifferent. (8) In ordinary private conversation, the background of information we have in common is usually rich enough to enable us to fill in what is intended.(9) Just as attention to rules of written usage helps us to read intelligently, so an awareness of abuse of “you know” in public forums makes us better listeners. (11) Only when all of America could see, on the nightly newscasts, the civil disobedience occurring in places like Seima and Montgomery did the issue of civil rights become a national concern rather than a series of isolated local events.(12) “Now …this ”is a phrase commonly used on television newscasts t o indicate that what one has just heard or seen has no relevance to what one is about to hear or see or possibly to anything one is ever likely to hear or see.(14) Huxley realized that the government need not conceal anything from a public that has become insensible to contradiction, that has lost any perspective from which to scrutinize government critically, and that has been rendered passive by technological diversions.(15) In many respects living Native Americans remain as mysterious, exotic and unfathomable to their contemporaries at the end of the twentieth century as they were to the Pilgrim settlers over three hundred fifty years ago.(16) The familiar and reassuring kinds of written documentation found in European societies of equivalent chronological periods do not exist, and the forms of tribal record preservation available ---oral history, tales, mnemonic devices, and religious rituals---strike university-trained academics as inexact, unreliable, and suspect.(17) Every modern observer, whether he or she was schooled in the traditions of the South Pacific or Zaire, of Hanover, New Hampshire or Vienna, Austria, was exposed at an early age to one or another form of folklore about Native Americans.(18) For some, the very impressions about Native American tribes that initially attracted them to the field of American history are aspects most firmly rooted in popular myth and stereotype.(19) It proposed that even though most buyers will never venture into territory any less trampled than the parking lot of the local shopping mall, the important goal of the marketing hype is to plant the image in customers’ minds that they can conquer rugged terrain.(20) Indeed, in an age when many who can afford to do so live in limited-access communities in houses guarded by sophisticated surveillance systems, the SUV isthe perfect transportation shelter to protect us from fears both real and imagined.(21) The belief that it is harmful to the Black community for authors to explore the humanity of our leaders can have troubling effects.(22) Americans have distanced themselves from the ethics and morals of food production, except where it serves them to think nostalgically about family farms as the source of our better values.(23) Little wonder that a poll taken by The New York Times finds a majority of Americans seeing farm life as superior to any other kind of life in this country.(24) That nineteenth-century French novelist Honore de Balzac could be financially wise in his fiction while losing all his money in life was an irony duplicated in other matters.(25) 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.(26) Contemplating the consequences of that will give you a headache, and science fiction writers for decades have delighted in the paradoxes that can arise from traveling through time.(27) The great collector and scholar Richard Payne Knight after discovering that an antique cameo of the Roman goddess Flora might be a modem forgery, told the dealer who had sold it to him that it did not matter whether it was old or new ,since its beauty was unaffected by its age.(28) Yet Van Meegeren was exposed not because he ceased to fool people, but because he was forced to prove himself a forger in order to clear himself of the more serious charge of having sold a national treasure illegally.(29) That each large firm will act with consideration of its own needs and thusavoid selling its products for more than its competitors’ charge is commonly recognized by advocates of free-market economic theories.(30) Balzac’s fiction originally sprang from an intuition he first discovered a s a wretched little school boy locked in a dark closet of his boarding school: life is a prison ,and only imagination can open its doors.。
