新东方考研英语必背500句
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this accounts for our reaction to seemingly simple innovations like plastic garbage bags and suitcases on wheels that make life more convenient:"how come nobody thought of tbat before?"
译文:这解释了我们看到诸如塑料垃圾袋和带轮箱包之类看似简单却令生活更便利的发明时的反应:“怎么过去就没有人想到这办法呢?”
点睛:本句的主干就是this accounts for our reaction。最后的引语是our reaction的同位语,而reaction后面介词to的宾语比较繁杂,核心词是innovations, like plastic garbage bags and suitcases on wheels是介词短语作后置定语。定语从句that make life more convenient用来修饰核心词innovations。
考点归纳:本句有两个重点:account和how come。
*account for有“解释;说明;占”的意思,在本句中意为“解释”。例如:
philip was seized with a restlessness he could not account for。
菲利普被一种莫名的不安所笼罩,但他就是说不出为什么。
还要注意固定用法:
there is no accounting for tastes.
人各有所好。
与account相关的短语还有:
on no account/nor on any account决不
take sth. into account/take account of sth.考虑
on account of由于
*how come?在口语中特别常用,相当于why。
如果你觉得什么事很奇怪,就可以用这个句子来问对方。例如,有人告诉你他周一不用上班,你就可以问他how come?又如,你今天迟到了,老板就会问你you were an hour late this morning,how come?(今天早晨你迟到了一小时,怎么回事?)另外,当别人问你—个问题而你不想回答时,也可以说how come?这时就当于why do you ask that?