19考研英語:屠屠長難句(二十五)
1、每日一句長難句(27)
NBAC will ask that Clinton's 90-day ban on federal funds for human cloning be extended indefinitely, and possibly that it be made law.
2、【分析】
今天選擇這個句子是爲了理解一個語言現象:虛擬語氣。主語是NBAC,謂語ask後面是兩個並列的賓語從句。在第一個從句中,主語是Clinton's 90-day ban,謂語是be extended,ask表示“要求”,後面是虛擬語氣的用法,即the 90-day ban should be extended,should被省略。在第二個從句中,it指代the ban on federal funds for human cloning, 謂語動詞be前面也被省略should。
3、【詞彙】
ask 要求(後面出現從句,謂語動詞用should+動詞原形,should可以省略)
ban 禁止
federal funds 聯邦資金
indefinitely 無限制地
4、【譯文】
NBAC會要求將克林頓所頒佈的在90天內禁止聯邦基金用於克隆人的禁令無限期地延續下去,還可能要求將之立法。
5、【明日長難句】
In a draft preface to the recommendations, discussed at the 17 May meeting, Shapiro suggested that the panel had found a broad consensus that it would be “morally unacceptable to attempt to create a human child by adult nuclear cloning.”