英语主语部分讲解

2021年1月25日发(作者：jem)
Lecture 1 Subject(
主语部分）

Unit 1
名词短语充当主语



1. Proper
，
scientific study of the impacts of dams and of the costs and benefits of
controlling water can help to resolve these conflicts. (1998-1-6)


针对大坝的影响和治水的耗资与收益进行合理科学的研究能有助于解决这些冲突。

2. As a result, the support for ambition as a healthy impulse, a quality to be admired and fixed in
the mind of the young is probably lower than it has ever been in the United States. (2000-5-3)





其结果，
对雄心壮志的支持，
支持它作为一种健康的

冲动，
一种受人尊重并扎根于年

轻
人心中的品德，也许低于美国

以往的任何时期。


3.
The
coming
of
age
of
the
postwar
baby
boom
and
an
entry
of
women
into
the
male-dominated
job
market
have
limited
the
opportunities
of
teen-agers
who
are
already
questioning the heavy personal sacrifices involved in climbing Japan ' s rigid social ladder to
good schools and jobs.
(2000-4-2)





战后生育高峰年代的到来，
以及女性进入男性为主 的劳动力市场，
已经限制了年轻人的
机会。
他们已经对攀登日本严格的社会阶梯以获得 较好的教育和工作所付出的巨大个人代价
提出质疑。


4.
Energy
conservation,
a
shift
to
other
fuels
and
a
decline
in
the
importance
of
heavy,
energy-intensive industries has reduced oil consumption.
(2002-3-4)





能源节约、燃料替代和能耗大的重工业重要性的衰减都减少了石油的消耗量。


5. Now a pink slip, a bad diagnosis, or a disappearing spouse can reduce a family from solidly
middle class to newly poor in a few months. (2007-3-1)





目前 ，
一次解雇、
一个不祥的医学诊断或者配偶的去世都能够在几个月里把一个家庭从
殷实 的中产阶级降低为新的贫困阶层。

Unit 2
动名词短语充当主语


1.
issue, not a technical one, he says. (2007-4-
3) ”





他说：

“
为信息的安全、
冗余以及恢复确定适当的投资水平是一个 管理问题而不是一个
技术问题。

”

2. With thousands of career-related sites on the Internet, finding promising openings can be
time- consuming and inefficient. (2004-1-2)





由于互联网上有成千上万个与求职相关的网站，寻

找可能的职位空缺费时且无效率。


3. Working with a personal search agent means having another set of eyes looking out for you.





拥有一个个人搜索代理意味着有另外一双眼睛为你

巡视。


4. And, of course, speaking a language does not necessarily mean that someone understands social
and cultural patterns. (1997-2-5)





当然说一种语言并不一定意味着某人能理解其社会及文化模式。


5.
Getting a table at Manhattan’s hot new Alain Ducasse restaurant
used to be impossible.
(2004-3-4)





过去在曼哈顿的新艾伦杜可斯饭店找个餐位是不可能的。


6. Narrowing your criteria, for example
，
may work against you. “Every time you answer a
question you eliminate a possibility
，，
says one expert. (2004-1-2)
，






比如缩小你的要求条件就有可能对你不利。
一位专家说：

“
每回答一个问题，
你就失去

一个机会。

”

7.
Strengthening economic growth, at the same time as winter grips the northern hemisphere,
could push the price higher still in the short term.
(2002-3-2)





强劲的经济增长，加上冬季笼罩了北半球，可能在短期内使价格涨得更高。


Unit 3
动词不定式短语充当主语

1. But to be fascinated is also, sometimes, to be blind. (1998-1-1)




但是痴迷有时也意味着盲目。

2. It is not possible to determine whether both continents are moving in opposite directions
or whether one continent is stationary and the other is drifting away from it.
(1998-5-2)





无法 断定是否两个大陆是都向相反的方向移动，
还是一个大陆没有运动，
另一个大陆正
在漂 离它而去。


3. It is, however, presumptuous to insist that there will only be so many jobs for so many scientists,
so many businessmen, so many accountants. (1999-3-3)





但是坚持未来科学家、商人、会计师职位的固定数量

是武断的。