英语是考研的重点
句子是英语的难点
我们通过对考研英语历年考题中出现过的句子进行结构化分析和学习,可以有效提升句子理解的准确性和效率。请按顺序阅读以下句子,并思考:
many in the medical community acknowledge that the assisted-suicide debate has been fueled in part by the despair of patients for whom modern medicine has prolonged the physical agony of dying. (2002 text 4)
fuel:给……加燃料,供给……燃料。文中为比喻的用法。
in part:部分地prolong:延长agony:巨大痛苦
(1)句子结构为:many in the medical community acknowledge that…;
(2)that引导宾语从句,在宾语从句中嵌套了由介词for和关系代词whom引导的定语从句,修饰名词patients。
许多医学界医生承认,致使医助自杀这场争论升温的部分原因是病人们的绝望情绪,对这些病人来说,现代医学延长了他们临终时肉体的痛苦
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