例1:What is harder to establish is whether the productivity revolution that businessmen assume they are presiding over is for real.
| 谓语动词:5个
| 从句引导词:3个
| 按顺序写:What is is whether that assume (that) are is
| 5-3=2,判断:引导词找少了,哪里谓语动词一堆,没从句管,哪里就省略了
| 补充后:| What is harder to establish is whether the productivity revolution that businessmen assume(that) they are presiding over is for real.
| 就近配对:[What is] is 【whether [that assume] [that are] is】嵌套从句结构
例2:Many European schools introduce the concept of professional training early on in order to make sure children are properly equipped for the professions they want to join.
| 谓语动词:3个
| 从句引导词:0
| 判断:省略了2个从句引导词,加that
| 按顺序:introduce [ (that) are] [ (that)want]
| 补充后:| Many European schools introduce the concept of professional training early on in order to make sure (that) children are properly equipped for the professions (that) they want to join.
Many European schools introduce the concept of professional training early on in order to make sure .许多欧洲学校(前些日子)引入了职业培训的概念,目的是确保...
| 主句明显不完整,意味着that从句中有名从,需要翻译后放在主句里。
Many European schools introduce the concept of professional training early onin order to make sure (that) children are properly equipped for the professions 许多欧洲学校前些日子引入了职业培训的概念,目的是确保(孩子们为...的职业做好了准备)
| 至此主句意思完整,剩下的that应该是定从,翻译中留下占位符即可。
例3:For a while it looked as though the making of semiconductors, which America had invented and which sat at the heart of thenew computer age, was going to be the next casualty.
谓语动词:4个
从句引导词:4个
判断:4-4=0,引导词找多了, For a while:有段时间,做名词,去掉
按顺序写,就近匹配:looked 【as though (which had) (which sat) was】嵌套从句
主干:For a while it looked as though the making of semiconductors, (which.….) ,was going to be the next casualty.
有段时间似乎(...的)半导体制作将会是下一个受害者。