2018屠屠考研英語長難句 一日一句(82)

 82. Call me incredulous but I find that very difficult to believe, which means we are back to the wrongheaded kind of political correctness that mulishly refuses to identify excellence in some children and in doing so damages them and robs them of any chance to better themselves or feel any pride in their achievements—all in the name of head teachers’ “ideology”.

【結構分析】 

 以連詞but爲切入點，主句由兩個並列分句構成。第一個分句Call me incredulous是祈使句，第二個並列分句I find that very difficult to believe，後面是一個由which引導的非限制性定語從句which means…，關係代詞which在從句中作主語。在此從句中，又包含一個that引導的定語從句修飾先行詞the wrongheaded kind of political correctness。that從句中謂語動詞refuses，damages和robs由兩個and並列，in doing so是狀語to better themselves or feel any pride in their achievements是不定式修飾前面的any chance。句末破折號後是對前文的補充說明。

【詞彙】

 incredulous 表示懷疑的，不相信的

mulish 固執的，執拗的

identify 識別，認出

excellence 優秀，成就

robs them of 剝奪

in the name of 以…的名義

ideology 思想意識

【參考譯文】 你可以說我多疑，但我還是覺得難以讓人相信，這意味着我們在政治正確性上又出現錯誤的判斷——固執地拒絕承認某些孩子的優秀品質，這樣做的結果傷害了他們，剝奪了他們提升自己、或爲自己取得的成績感到驕傲的機會——所有這一切就是校長們所謂的“思想觀念”。