This week Wal-Mart is set to announce a major initiative aimed at helping cotton farmers go organic: it will buy transitional (过渡型的) cotton at higher prices, thus helping to expand the supply of a key sustainable material. (09.6 Passage 1)
分析主干:Wal-Mart is set to announce a (major) initiative: it will buy (transitional)cotton...
1.本句冒号后的内容是对前文initiative 的详细阐述,相当于一个同位语从句。
2.冒号前的分句中,谓语动词用了be set to do 结构,过去分词短语aimed to...是initiatives 的后置定语,相当于一个定语从句。
3.冒号后的分句中,结构简单,其中helping to...是现在分词短语,作谓语动词buy 的状语,表示目的。
译文:本周沃尔玛超市准备出台一项重大举措,目的在于帮助棉农种植有机棉:沃尔玛将以更高的价格收购过渡型的棉花,以此帮助扩大一种重要有机原材料的供应。
Telling myself that I was merely an experienced writer guiding the young writer across the hall, I offered suggestions for characters, conflicts and endings for her tales. (07.12 Passage 2)
分析主干:I offered suggestions (for...)
句首的Telling 是现在分词,作状语,表示伴随动作:它带了一个宾语从句,从句的表语writer 后接了一个作定语的现在分词guiding...。主句部分的介词for 带有三个名词作宾语,与suggestion 连用,表示“对.......的建议”。
译文:我对自己说,我只是一个有经验的作家,在指导身边的一位年轻作家。我对她的那些故事中的人物尧冲突及结局提出建议。