2014年6月大学英语四级难句解析(三)
The digital bread crumbs (碎屑) you leave everywhere make it easy for strangers to reconstruct who y
The digital bread crumbs (碎屑) you leave everywhere make it easy for strangers to reconstruct who you are, where you are and what you like. (08.6 Passage 2)
主干:The crumbs make it easy to reconstruce...
you leave everywhere 是定语从句,省略了关系代词that,修饰crumbs; make it easy for...to do...结构中,it 是形式宾语,真正的宾语是不定式 to reconstruct...。easy是宾语补语,for引导出不定式的逻辑主语strangers。句末who, where和what引导的三个名词性从句都是reconstruct的宾语。
译文:你处处留下的“数字面包碎屑”很容易让陌生人推想出你是谁,你在哪里,你对什么感兴趣。
Privacy economist Alessandro Acquisti has run a series of tests that reveal people will surrender personal information like Social Security numbers just to get their hands on a pitiful 50-cents-off coupon (优惠券).
主干:Alessandro Acquisti has run a series of tests...
Privacy economist 和 Alessandro Acquisti 是同位语。tests后的that从句作tests的定语,该从句的谓语动词reveal带有一个宾语从句people will surrender...。
译文:隐私经济学家Alessandro Acquisti 进行了一系列的测试,这些测试表明人们会透露像社保卡号这样的个人信息,就只是为了能拿到微不足道的便宜50美分的优惠券。