拎清楚这些常见的语法现象

名词+介词短语

The increasein the numbers of married women employed outside the home in the twentieth century had less to do with the mechanization of housework andan increasein leisure timefor these women than it did with their own economic necessity and with high marriage rates that shrank the available pool of single women workers, previously, in many cases, the only women employers would hire.

在这个句子当中，of married women 做后置定语修饰numbers，in the numbers做后置定语修饰increase，同样的道理，in leisure time做后置定语修饰increase，在翻译的时候，需要将定语部分放到名词前面。

02

名词+形容词短语

The history of film reflects the paradoxes inherent in the medium itself: film combines still photographs to represent continuous motion and while seeming to present life itself, can also offer impossible and dreamlike unrealities.

在这个句子当中，inherent in the medium itself这个形容词短语做名词paradoxes的后置定语。

03

名词+不定式

The unique human ability to rethink and reviseour social arrangements is a weird blessing, allowing us to create systems that are as likely to ______ us as to liberate us.

A. cheer

B. shackle

C. admonish

D. educate

E. stifle

F. enliven

此题答案为BE，题干当中的to rethink and revise是不定式做后置定语修饰前面的ability。

The ______ nature of the approval process for new drugs suggests thatincentivesto promote more expeditious decision making may be necessary.

A. pecuniary

B. commercial

C. arbitrary

D. sluggish

E. capricious

F. dilatory

此题答案为DF，注意题干中不定式to promote more expeditious decision making做后置定语修饰前面的名词incentives。

韩成芳 北京新东方学校GRE填空讲师

清华大学法学博士，北京师范大学法学硕士，思维严谨，拥有丰富的GRE授课经历和研发经验。课程安排上，由浅入深，对于课程难点，逐步拆分，并带领学员各个击破，轻松搞定GRE考试。

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