新托福阅读长难句120句（分析+译文）1. Totally without light and subjected to intense pressures hundreds of times greater than at the Earth’s surface，the deep—ocean bottom is a hostile environment to humans，in some ways as forbidding and remote as the void of outer space.(定语后置in some ways…)由于完全没有光，而且承受着比在地球表面大数百倍的极大压力，深海底部对人类而言是一个充满敌意的环境，在某些方面就像外层空间一样险恶和遥远。
分句1：Totally without light and subjected to intense pressures分句2：hundreds of times greater than at the Earth’s surface分句3：the deep—ocean bottom is a hostile environment to humans分句4：in some ways as forbidding and remote as the void of outer space分句2修饰分句1结尾的短语intense pressures，分句1是分句3的原因状语分句3是整个长句子的主句分句4是分句3的后置定语，修饰分句3的a hostile environment to humans整个句子结构是：原因状语+主句+后置定语这是主句前后分别有状语和定语的修饰成分，但是本句其实不是复合句。
句子的核心意思是深海对于人类而言是一个充满敌意的环境。
2.Basic to any understanding of Canada in the 20 years after theSecond World War is the country's impressive population growth．(倒装结构Basic to any understanding…is…)要理解二战之后20年中的加拿大，就必须了解该国惊人的人口增长。
分句1：Basic to any understanding of Canada in the 20 years after theSecond World War分句2：is分句3：the country's impressive population growth分句1，2，3共同构成倒装句，正常的语序应该是3，2，1，即：该句的正常语序是The country's impressivepopulation growth is basic to any understanding of Canada in the 20years after the Second World War．本句是一个简单句，只不过使用了倒装，谓语动词是is.3.As a result，claims that eating a diet consisting entirely oforganically grown foods prevents or cures disease or provides otherbenefits to health have become widely publicized and form the basisfor folklore．(同位语从句claims that…)结果，那些认为只食用绿色食品就能防治疾病或增进健康的观点广为人知，并成为一些民间说法的基础。
分句1：that eating a diet consisting entirely of organically grownfoods prevents or cures disease or provides other benefits to health分句2：claims have become widely publicized and form the basis forfolklore分句2嵌套分句1，分句1作为分句2主语的同位语从句嵌套在分句2中。
因此本句的主句是claims have become widelypublicized and form the basis for folklore.那些观点广为人知，并成为一些民间说法的基础。
同位语从句是that eating a diet consisting entirelyof organically grown foods prevents or cures disease or providesother benefits to health：只食用绿色食品就能防治疾病或增进健康4.There are numerous unsubstantiated reports that natural vitaminsare superior to synthetic ones，that fertilized eggs arenutritionally superior to unfertilized eggs，that untreated grainsare better than fumigated grains and the like．(并列同位语从句reports that…，that…，that…)关于天然维生素优于人造维生素，受精蛋比未受精蛋的营养价值更高，未经熏蒸消毒处理的谷物比经过处理的好等等报道屡见不鲜，但都没有得到证实。
分句1：There are numerous unsubstantiated reports分句2：natural vitamins are superior to synthetic ones分句3：that fertilized eggs are nutritionally superior to unfertilizedeggs分句4：that untreated grains are better than fumigated grains and thelike分句1是整个长句的主句，分句2、分句3和分句4是并列关系，共同构成分句1的同位语从句。
本句的意思是有很多没有经过证实的报道，然后并列了三个未经过证实的报道的从句。
5·The desperate plight of the South has eclipsed the fact thatreconstruction had to be undertaken also in the North，though lessspectacularly．(同位语从句fact that…)南方极为严重的困境使北方同样需要开始重建(尽管不像南方那么引人注目)这一事实显得不太重要。
分句1. The desperate plight of the South has eclipsed the fact分句2. reconstruction had to be undertaken also in the North分句3.though less spectacularly （省略）1和2嵌套1和3并列6·The new accessibility of land around the periphery of almost everymajor city sparked an explosion of real estate development andfueled what we now know as urban sprawl．(宾语从句what we now know as)现在可以获得这些环绕几乎每个大城市边缘地区的土地，这一可能性激发了一场房地产开发的热潮并造成了我们现在称为城区无计划扩展的现象。
分句1：The new accessibility of land around the periphery of almostevery major city sparked an explosion of real estate development andfueled分句2：what we now know as urban sprawl分句1嵌套分句2，即分句1是主句，分句2是宾语从句，主句结构经过精简应该是The new accessibility of landsparked an explosion of real estate development and fueled urbansprawl。
本句的理解困难还来自于抽象词fuel，它作为名词的含义广为人知，是能源、燃料，作为动词的时候的意思就可以引申为促使、造成。
7.But these factors do not account for the interesting question ofhow there came to be such a concentration of pregnant ichthyosaursin a particular place very close to their time of giving birth．(Of结构作定语：of how there came to be such a concentration of pregnantichthyosaurs…)但这些因素并不能解释这个有趣的问题：为何在一个特定的地点会如此集中地出现即将临产的怀孕鱼龙群。
分句1：But these factors do not account for the interesting question分句2：of how there came to be such a concentration of pregnantichthyosaurs in a particular place very close to their time ofgiving birth分句1嵌套分句2.分句2是Of结构作后置定语修饰说明question的内容。
8. Amid rumors that there were prehistoric mammoths wandering aroundthe unknown region and that somewhere in its wilds was a mountain ofrock salt 80 by 45 miles in extent，the two captains set out．(同位语从句rumors that…)当时有一些传言，说有史前的猛犸在这一陌生的区域活动，而且在这一区域的某个地方有一座巨大的盐石山，其面积达80英里长50英里宽。