2021考研英語：英語二長難句分析（七）

例句：

This has created “a paradox” in that recruiting first-generation students, but then watching many of them fail, means that higher education has “continued to reproduce and widen, rather than close” an achievement gap based on social class,according to the depressing beginning of a paper forthcoming in the journal Psychological Science.
 

1. 斷句

前面兩個逗號涉及到并列，不宜斷開，可在第三個逗號后面斷句;而in和than是引導原因狀語從句的從屬連詞，可在其前面斷句，因此，從句可分為四個部分：

①　This has created “a paradox”

②　in that recruiting first-generation students, but then watching many of them fail, means

③　that higher education has “continued to reproduce and widen, rather than close” an achievement gap based on social class

④　according to the depressing beginning of a paper forthcoming in the journal Psychological Science
 

2. 找主干，識修飾

結構一是主句，整體結構為“主+謂+賓”; in that引導的原因狀語從句(并列主語+謂語+賓語);based on social class V-ed短語做后置定語，修飾賓語an achievement gap; in the journal Psychological Science介詞短語做狀語。
 

3. 翻譯整句

例句譯文：根據《心理科學》期刊中所出現的這篇令人沮喪的論文所說，這就創造出一種悖論。因為招收這些第一批學生然后看著他們很多人失敗就意味著較高等的教育繼續復制和擴大，而并非消除了這種基于社會階級形成的成就差距。