2018屠屠考研英語長難句 一日一句(62)

每日一句：

62. It was refreshing, across the age groups of the children I met, to see how quickly they grasped the whole idea of human rights and how, with a little bit of prompting from their teachers and me, they saw how relevant they were to their daily lives.

【分析】

 across the age groups of the children I met是插入語。去掉可以得到It was refreshing to see…是主句，see後面的賓語是and連接的兩個how引導的句子充當：how quickly they grasped the whole idea of human rights and how…。其中with a little bit of prompting from their teachers and me作插入語，也是句子的伴隨狀語。將插入語去除完整的句子是It was refreshing to see how quickly they grasped the whole idea of human rights and how they saw how relevant they were to their daily lives。第二個從句中，謂語say後仍然是由how引導的名詞性從句how relevant they were to their daily lives充當賓語。

【詞彙】

 refreshing提神的，涼爽的(在此處理解爲“讓人高興的”)

prompting 促進，激勵（此處是“提示”的含義）

be relevant to與…有關

【參考譯文】  看到我遇到的同年齡段孩子們那麼迅速地領會人權的整體觀念，並且在我和他們的老師只給了一點兒提示的情況下，認識到人權與他們的生活如何密切相關，這讓人感到興奮。