Day 24

英文重现

I found most of the works that I read unreal to my own experience;yet,because I hungered for some kind of connection between myself and the South,I read them anyhow.But I did not care for the language of this writing-I found it too oratorical,and the dialects,especially those of Black people,quite untrue.

——SAT 2009年5月题，Section 7

解析

1.“find sb./sth.to be +adj.”结构中的“to be”可以省略掉，直接用“find sb./sth.+adj.”，意思是“发现（觉得）某人/某事如何”，构成“find+宾语+宾补”这一结构，该结构中的宾语补足语可以由现在分词、过去分词、名词、形容词、副词、介词短语以及不定式等来充当。第一个句子中形容词“unreal”充当宾补；第二个句子中，“I found it too oratorical”从意思上说等于“I found it is too oratorical”，但是从习惯用法的角度来说，一般不用加“is”，“it”作“find”的宾语，“oratorical”作宾语补足语，补充说明“it”的情况。如果是不定式充当宾补，经常用“it”作形式宾语，构成“find+it+形容词+to do sth.”这一结构，与前面说的一样，在习惯上这句话也不用加“is”。例如：“She finds it not too hard to study English”（她发现学英语不太难）。

2.“that I read”是“that”引导的定语从句修饰“works”。

3.第二个句子的破折号的作用是引出对前面内容进行解释说明的句子。

词意辨析

参考翻译

我发现我读过的大部分作品中的内容与我自己的经历并不相符；但是，出于对自己和南部地区之间的某种联系的渴望，我还是把这些作品都读了一遍。但是我不喜欢这些作品中的语言——我觉得它们太做作了，而且那些方言，尤其是黑人方言，很不真实。

实战演练

I read many novels,short stories,and plays about the South-all written by White writers,because there was such a limited number of works by Black writers in a place like Vallejo,California,in 1948.I found most of the works that I read unreal to my own experience;yet,because I hungered for some kind of connection between myself and the South,I read them anyhow.But I did not care for the language of this writing-I found it too oratorical,and the dialects,especially those of Black people,quite untrue.

The author indicates that he“did not care for the language of this writing”in part because of its____.

(A)inflated style

(B)insincere sentiments

(C)old-fashioned vocabulary

(D)inflammatory tone

(E)obscure allusions

答案：A

答案解析

作者“did not care for the language of this writing”的原因是破折号后面的解释“I found it too oratorical,and the dialects,especially those of Black people,quite untrue”（觉得太做作了，而且那些方言，尤其是黑人方言，很不真实）。选项A是“华而不实的风格”，选项B是“不真诚的感情”，选项C是“老式的词汇”，选项D是“煽动性的语气”，选项E是“晦涩的暗喻”，与“oratorical”意思相近的应该是选项A。