导语：2016考研人起步备考已经有一段时间，考生们一定发现，无论是完型、阅读亦或是新题型，长难句的影子无处不在，诚然，长难句的学习成为战争考研英语拦路虎的必经之路。掌握备考方法，无异于获得备考法宝，学起来才能萌萌哒，高分才不是问题。下面都教授就带各位考生来学习一下，如何在长难句中get闪光词汇，从而战胜长难句。

　　【2014年真题】

　　Most archaeological sites have been located by means of careful searching, while many others have been discovered by accident. Olduvai Gorge, fell into its deep valley in 1911.Thousands of Aztec artifacts came to light during the digging of the Mexico City subway in the 1970s. Most archaeological sites , however , are discovered by archaeologists who have set out to look for them. Such searches can take years.

　　●闪光词组

　　通过仔细搜索：by means of careful searching

　　偶然：by accident

　　恰好掉入深谷：literally fall into the deep valley

　　重见光明：come to light

　　开始做某事：set out to do something

　　●考点练兵

　　Olduvai Gorge , an early hominid site in Tanzania , was found by a butterfly hunter who literally into its deep valley in 1911.

　　参考译文：坦桑尼亚早期的原始人遗址——Olduvai 峡谷，就是1911年被一个恰好掉进这个深谷的蝴蝶猎手发现的。

　　Part 2

　　【2012年真题】

　　However , many leading American universities want their undergraduates to have a grounding in the basic canon of ideas that every educated person should posses. But most find it difficult to agree on what a “general education” should look like. At Harvard， Mr Menand notes， “the great books are read because they have been read”--they form a sort of social glue. One reason why it is hard to design and teach such courses is that they can cut across the insistence by top American universities that liberal-arts education and professional education should be kept separate , taught in different schools .

　　●闪光词组

　　基本经典思想：basic canon of ideas

　　形成某种社会粘合剂：from a sort of social glue

　　美国顶级大学：top American universities

　　打破X一贯坚持的原则：cut across the insistence by X

　　文科教育与职业教育：liberal-arts education and professional education

　　●考点练兵

　　At Harvard , Mr Menand notes , “the great books are read because they have been read “---they form a sort of social glue.

　　参考译文：Menand提出，在哈佛大学“人们阅读经典著作的原因是因为这些书一直都在被人们阅读”——这些经典著作形成了一种社会粘合剂。

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