2023考研英語長難句考試模擬題詳細分析（13）

There is a good reason why the UK is dominated by animal husbandry: most of its terrain doesn’t have the right soil or climate to grow crops on a commercial basis. (2021年英語二閱讀理解text2)

結構劃分：① There is a good reason

② why the UK is dominated by animal husbandry

③ most of its terrain doesn’t have the right soil or climate

④ to grow crops on a commercial basis.

重點詞匯：

dominate v. 占據統治地位

animal husbandry 畜牧業

terrain n. 地形;地勢;地帶

crop n. 農作物;莊稼

on a commercial basis 商業性地

語法分析：本句主干為：There is a good reason，采用了there be句型;后面接著的why從句為定語從句，修飾前面reason，譯為“英國由畜牧業主導是有原因的”。而后用冒號隔開，冒號之后的內容用于解釋前面的內容。后半句的主干是most of its terrain doesn’t have the right soil or climate，用了主謂賓結構;后面的to grow crops on a commercial basis則為to do 短語做修飾，翻譯時可前置。

參考譯文：英國由畜牧業主導是有原因的：它的大多數地帶都沒有適合用作商業化種植的土壤和氣候。