SAT 阅读长难句（8）注解版（真题部分）

　　摘要：SAT 阅读长难句（8）注解版（真题部分）

　　8. Authors who make this their motto, in the name of artistic integrity, can hardly be expected

　　to tolerate the attitudes of critically acclaimed nineteenth‐century novelists, who believed

　　that their first duty was to try to seem “pleasant,” and that to do so they must render their

　　meanings “without an effort to the reader.”

　　难句类型：复杂修饰+插入语

　　难词注解：acclaim vt.向…欢呼,为…喝彩

　　render vt.提供

　　语法分析：Authors who make this their motto, in the name of artistic integrity, can hardly be

　　主语 定语 插入语 谓语

　　expected to tolerate the attitudes of critically acclaimed nineteenth‐century novelists, who

　　不定式 定语

　　believed that their first duty was to try to seem “pleasant,” and that to do so they must

　　从句

　　render their meanings “without an effort to the reader.”

　　并列成分

　　意群训练：Authors who make this their motto, in the name of artistic integrity, can hardly be

　　expected to tolerate the attitudes of critically acclaimed nineteenth‐century novelists, who

　　believed that their first duty was to try to seem “pleasant,” and that to do so they must

　　render their meanings “without an effort to the reader.”

　　参考译文：将此奉为箴言的作家，就（作品）艺术的完整性的层面，很难容忍19 世纪受

　　到评论界赞赏的小说家的态度。这些小说家认为自己的首要职责是“愉悦读者”，为实现该

　　职责，他们必须把作品“不费吹灰之力”地展示给读者。