考研英语备考：翻译题型练习及详细分析 Day_04

This same absence of moral purpose was wounding companies such as News International , she thought ,making it more likely that it would lose its way as it had with widespread illegal telephone hacking .

首先，解句子第一步先解决掉里面的生词

Moral a. 道德的

widespread a.普遍的

hacking n.窃听

那接下来咱们第二步该做什么呢?对于这种长难句，难点之一就在于它太长了，所以为了方便理解，接下来我们就应该去对它进行断句，当然断句并不是按照我们想当然来断句的而是有一定得标志，所以第一步即是找标志，段长句，其中存在的非常天然的一个标志即是标点，然后连词，最后短语，并且断句还等满足一个长度适中，结构完整的原则，先看我们这句子里面有两个逗号，在第一个逗号处断句，那么接下来就跟着老师的脚步来分析一下这个句子，所以可以断句为：

①This same absence of moral purpose was wounding companies such as News International ,/ ② she thought ,making it more likely that it would lose its way as it had with widespread illegal telephone hacking

接下来就要。抓主干，识从句。She thought两个逗号括起来，作为插入语，理解的时候提到句子前，这样下来这个句子就变成了 she thought，this same absence of moral purpose was wounding companies such as News International making it more likely that it would lose its way as it had with widespread illegal telephone hacking.主语是this same absence of moral purpose ，谓语动词was wounding，宾语companies such as News International ，making.......到最后是作为一个状语，但最后这个状语比价复杂，因为里面包含了一个形式宾语it，真正的宾语是后面的that从句，因为真正宾语太长，为了保证句子结构不头重脚轻，就采用了it来代替，这里可以翻译为“让....成为可能”另外包含了一个as引导的比较状语从句，as翻译为“正如”，整个句子顺译即可，就到了第三步，调语序，这句话的意思就是：