考研英语

2019考研英语二text 4选自2018年6月HuffPost 中一篇名为Let's Stop Pretending Quitting Straws Will Solve Plastic Pollution。本篇文章紧密联系实际，谈论的是环境保护，属于18年的热点话题，符合当下形势，难度中等偏上。

While the conversation around our environment and our responsibility toward it remains centered on shopping bags and straws, we’re ignoring the balance of power that implies that as “consumers” we must shop sustain ably, rather than as “ citizens” hole our governments and industries to account to push for real systemic change.

词汇精解

straw [strɔː] n. 吸管

sustain ably [səˈsteɪnəbli] adv.可持续地

citizen [ˈsɪtɪzn] n. 公民;市民

account [əˈkaʊnt] n. 账户;解释;账目，账单;理由;描述

vi. 解释;导致;报账

vt. 认为;把…视为

常用搭配

center on 以…为中心

account to 对…作出解释

长难句解析

主干:we’re ignoring the balance of power 主干为主谓宾结构，含义为我们忽视了权利的平衡。但主干后包含了两个从句，第 一个that引导的是定语从句，被修饰的是前面的句子，第二个that引导的是宾语从句，告诉读者前面主干部分所暗含的真正含义。其中，第二个从句较难些，需要进一步解读。 在as “consumers” we must shop sustain ably, rather than as “ citizens” hole our governments and industries to account to push for real systemic change中as “consumers”和as “ citizens”在句子中属于同位语，是解释说明we的身份，告诉读者we是消费者，是市民，公民。去掉同位语后的句子形式为we must shop sustain ably, rather than hole our governments and industries to account to push for real systemic change. Rather than在句子中算并列连词，是前者而不是后者。整个后半部分含义为我们应该可持续购物，而不是让我们的政府和企业对推动真正的系统改革做出解释。

修饰成分：在While the conversation around our environment and our responsibility toward it remains centered on shopping bags and straws这个让步状语从句中，由while引导整个从句，后面是一个结构相对复杂的主谓宾结构。经过分析，发现本句中真正的谓语是remains centered on，所以该句主语是 the conversation around our environment and our responsibility toward it， 主语部分比较长是因为conversation后有定语around our environment and our responsibility修饰，说的是围绕我们的环境和责任感的谈话，而宾语是shopping bags and straws。

段落译文：虽然围绕我们的环境和责任的谈话仍集中在购物袋和吸管上,但是我们忽略的权力平衡,意味着作为消费者,我们必须可持续购物,而不是作为公民而不是让我们的政府和企业对推动真正的系统改革做出解释。