帮你轻松搞定考研英语长难句（十二）

Most careers in conservative politics, where purity is highly valued, would not survive a public declaration of love for the president, let alone a professed willingness to raise taxes to plug the deficit.

【词汇突破】

1.politics政见，政治活动

What are your politics?你的政见如何? conservative politics保守派的政治活动

2.purity 纯洁性

3. survive : continue to live or exist in spite of (an accident or ordeal) (事故或折磨后)存活，坚持，存在

4. let alone 更不用说

5. a public declaration of love for 公开声称爱

6. a professed willingness to 公开声称愿意 Professed :公开声称的;

7. plug the deficit 弥补赤字

Plug ：本意是塞子，在这里就是弥补的意思了。 Deficit: 赤字

【句子解析】

【句子主干】Most careers would not survive A ，let alone B.

A = a public declaration of love for the president

B= a professed willingness to raise taxes to plug the deficit.

in conservative politics, 定语修饰careers

where purity is highly valued, 定语从句修饰conservative politics

翻译的过程中还是注意语序按照中文的习惯调整： 先翻译定语从句，在翻译其他。

【参考译文】在保守派的政治活动中，纯洁性是被高度看重的，所以很多其中的职业是承受不起公开表达爱总统的，更不用说公开声称愿意通过增加税收来弥补赤字。

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