考研英语经典长难句

1.

Surely it should be obvious to the dimmest executive that trust, that most valuable

of economic assets, is easily destroyed and hugely expensive to restore

—

and that few

things are more likely to destroy trust than a company letting sensitive personal data

get into the wrong hands. (2007, T4)

2.

Foreigners

who

understand

the

degree

to

which

Americans

are

imbued

with

the

notion

that the

free,

self-reliant

individual

is

the

ideal

kind

of

human

being

will

be

able

to

understand

many

aspects

of

American

behavior

and

thinking

that

otherwise

might not make sense.

3.

As families move away from their stable community, their friends of many years,

their extended family relationships, the informal flow of information

is

cut

off, and

with it the confidence that information will be available when needed and will be trust

worthy and reliable.(1995, T3)

4.

Although it ruled that there is no constitutional right to physician -assisted

suicide,

the Court in effect supported the medical principle of

effect”,

a

centuries-old

moral principle holding that an action having two effects-a good

o

ne that is intended

and

a harmful

one that is

foreseen-is

permissible if

the actor intends

only

the

good

effect. (2002, Text

4)

5. Meanwhile, the theft of information about some 40 million credit-card accounts

in

America

disclosed

on

June

17th,

overshadowed

a

hugely important decision

a

day

earlier by America’s Federal Trade Commission (FTC) that puts

corporate America on

notice that regulators will act if firms fail to provide adequate data

s

ecurity. (2007, T4)

6. He points out that he always expected much difficulty in expressing himself clearly

and concisely, but he believes that this very difficulty may have had the compensating

advantage

of

forcing

him

to

think

long

and

intently

about

every sentence,

and

thus

enabling

him

to

detect

errors

in

reasoning

and

in

his

own

observations.

(2008,

Translation)

7. There is no doubt that gardens evidence an impossible urge to create, express,

f

ashion,

and beautify and that self-expression is a basic human urge; yet when one looks at the

photographs of the gardens created by the homeless, it

strikes one that, for

all their

diversity

of

styles,

these

gardens

speak

of various

other

fundamental

urges,

beyond

that of decoration and creative expression.

(2013, Translation)

8. Left, until now, to odd, low level IT staff to put right, and seen as a concern only of

data-rich industries such as banking, telecoms and air travel, information protection is

now high in the boss’s agenda

in businesses of every variety.

9.

Arguing

from

the

view

that

humans

are

different

from

animals

in

every

relevant

respect, extremists of this kind are of the idea holding that animals lie outside the area

of moral choice.(1997, Translation 34)

10.

He

elected

as

his

primary

duty

and

pleasure

in

life

the

thinking

activity

in

a

Socratic way about the moral problem.