医学英语考博冲刺培训

医学考博英语长难句型解析（六）

22. Towns like Bournemouth Eastbourne sprang up to house large "comfortable" classes who had retired on their incomes, who had no relation to the rest of the community except that of drawing dividends occasionally attending a shareholders’ meeting to dictate their orders to the management.

　　【词汇】

　　have no relation to: 与......没有关系

　　draw dividends: 分红

　　shareholder: 股东

　　【句式分析】

　　① 句子主干：Towns sprang up to house large “comfortable”classes;

　　② 定语从句：两个 who 引导两个并列的定语从句，修饰先行词 classes;

　　③ except 为介词，其后的 that 指代 relation，except that of 相当于 except the relation of;

　　④ 不定式作目的状语：to dictate their orders to the management。

　　【翻译】

　　像伯恩茅斯和伊斯特本这样的城镇的涌现是为了给那些数量很多的"舒适"阶级提供居住场所。这些人依赖于其丰厚收入而不工作，他们除了分红和偶尔参加一下股东大会，向管理层口授一下自己的命令之外，跟社会的其他阶层毫无瓜葛。