2014年6月大学英语四级难句解析（五）
Meawhile, most children are vulnerable to the enormous influence exerted by grandchildless parents a
Meawhile, most children are vulnerable to the enormous influence exerted by grandchildless parents aiming to persuade their kids to produce children. (06.1 Passage 1)
主干：...most children are vulnerable (to)
本句是个简单句，谓语部分用了be vulnerable to...短语，to 是介词，后接名词influence作宾语。exerted是过去分词，作influence的后置定语;aiming是现在分词，作parents的后置定语。exert influence“施加影响”。
译文：同时，在他们父母的巨大影响下，绝大部分的子女很容易被说服生育孩子。
This isn't the stuff of gloomy philosophical contemplations, but a fact of Europe's new economic landscape, embraced by sociologists, real-estate developers and ad executives alike. (05. 6 Passage 1)
主干：This isn't the stuff..., but a fact...
not...but...连接两个并列的名词词组，在句中作表语。两个词组都有相应的修饰成分，修饰stuff的是of介词短语;修饰fact的既有of介词短语，还有过去分词短语embraced...。
译文：这并不是悲观的哲学沉思的东西，而是社会学家、房地产开发商和广告主管都欣然接受的欧洲新的经济现象中的一个事实。
