托福长难句检测及分析（7）

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长难句自我检测7
Though it may be difficult to imagine from a later perspective, a strain of critical opinion in the 1920 s predicted that sound film would be a technical novelty that would soon fade from sight, just as had many previous attempts, dating well back before the First World War, to link images with recorded sound.

分析：此句无论从句法结构还是从句意理解上，难度都很大，句法结构难理解是因为此句中蕴含了很多的句法成分，句意理解大是因为里面有好多词同学们的理解都存在偏差。此句中含有三个双逗号，我们先来分析双逗号中间的成分，第一个双逗号中间 a strain of critical opinion 是主语，predict 是谓语，that引导了宾语从句，所以第一个双逗号中间是句子，所以不能删；第二个双逗号中间是just as 引导的方式状语，所以可删；第三个双逗号中间是dating 分词形式做的attempts 的后置定语，也可以删减。而余下的部分though引导了让步状语从句可以删，to link 做了目的状语可以删，所以本句的主干是a strain of critical opinion in the 1920s predicted that sound film would be a technical novelty that would soon fade from sight 需注意的词有a strain of 是一系列的意思，novelty是名词，意思是创新，fade from sight 的意思是从视野中消失，所以翻译成20世纪20年代的一系列批判的观点认为有声电影会是一个技术上的创新，但很快会从视野中消失。