2018考研英语：何凯文每日一句第16句

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　　今天的句子：

　　Grand trade deals, never very high on governments’ agendas, have in recent decades aimed more at locking in existing practice than at winning important new concessions. The TFA reflects curtailed ambition, after plans for agreements in areas such as intellectual property and trade in services were abandoned.

　　句子的解析：

　　Grand trade deals, never very high on governments’ agendas, have in recent decades aimed more at locking in existing practice than at winning important new concessions.

　　词汇突破：1. Concessions 让步

　　2. Grand trade deals 大规模的贸易协定

　　3. high on governments’ agendas 政府议程的重点

　　4. existing practice 现行惯例

　　5. new concessions 新的让步

　　确定主干：Grand trade deals have aimed more at A than at B.

　　大规模的贸易协议更关注A不是B

　　A= locking in existing practice

　　B= winning important new concessions

　　切分成分：never very high on governments’ agendas 定语

　　in recent decades 状语

　　参考译文：大规模的贸易协议从来不是政府议程的重点，近几十年来它们更关注于锁定现行惯例，而不是争取重要的新让步。

　　The TFA reflects curtailed ambition, after plans for agreements in areas such as intellectual property and trade in services were abandoned.

　　词汇突破：1.curtail 限制，减缩，缩短

　　Spending on books has been severely curtailed.

　　购书的开支已经被大大削减

　　2. curtailed ambition

　　被削减的雄心 (壮志难酬)

　　3. intellectual property

　　知识产权

　　确定主干： The TFA reflects curtailed ambition

　　直接翻译：TFA反映了缩减的雄心

　　这样肯定不通顺，所以可以修改为：TFA正是壮志难酬的体现。

　　切分成分： after plans for agreements in areas such as intellectual property and trade in services were abandoned. 状语从句

　　Plans for agreements were abandoned. 状语从句的主干

　　in areas such as intellectual property and trade in services 状语从句中 的定语

　　参考译文：在知识产权和服务业贸易等领域的协议计划被放弃之后，《贸易便利化协议》正是壮志难酬的体现。