1.It seems to me a very difficult thing to put into words the beliefs we hold and what they make you do in your life.
【难句释义】我的信念是什么,它在我的人生中起到了什么作用------这些问题我觉得很难用言语解释清楚。
【难句解析】句中"it"指"to put into words the beliefs we hold and what they make you do in your life",其中"put into word"意思是“用语言表达”,"they"指"beliefs "。
2. But as I grew older I questioned a great many of the things that I knew very well my grandmother who had brought me up had taken for granted.
【难句释义】我是在祖母身边长大的。随着年龄的增长,我对许多祖母视作理所当然的事产生了怀疑。
【难句解析】句子得主干是"I questioned many things",“ I knew very well my grandmother who had brought me up had taken for granted”是定语从句,修饰"things"。
3.But how, that I don’t know. And I came to feel that it didn’t really matter very much because whatever the future held you’d have to face it when you came to it, just as whatever life holds you have to face it exactly the same way.
【难句释义】但它会怎样降临。我不知道,然而着一点,我渐渐感到并不重要。因为无论未来如何,我们到时候总得面对,正如无论生活中发生了什么,我们都必须面对一样。
【难句解析】"how"是"how it happens"的省略形式,“whatever the future held”意思是“无论未来如何”。