(25)大学英语四级、考研英语长难句分析
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may have heard some of the fashion industry horror stories: models eating tissues or cotton balls to hold off hunger, and models collapsing from hunger-induced heart attacks just seconds after they step off the runway.
(难点:独立主格结构作同位语)
必背语汇:
collapse v. 倒塌、晕倒
induce v. 引起、导致
heart attack 心脏病发作
may have done 可能已经做过
hold off 抵挡
你的翻译_________
句子分析
本句为复合句中的时间状语从句。
主句为Youmay have heardsome of the fashion industry horror stories(你可能听说过时装行业的一些可怕的事)。Horror stories有两个独立主格结构作其同位语。分别是modelseating tissues or cotton balls [to hold off hunger](模特们吃纸巾或棉球来抵挡饥饿)和modelscollapsing from hunger-induced heart attacks(模特们因饥饿引发心脏病发作而倒下),其后有时间状语从句just seconds after they step off。
句子翻译
你可能听说过一些时装业的恐怖的事:模特们吃纸巾或棉球来抵挡饥饿,模特们在离开T台几秒钟后因饥饿引发心脏病发作而倒下。