考研英语中的长难句还是比较难的，为了帮大家拿下英语长难句，文都考研英语老师就给大家举例统一分析一下，看看如何来分析长难句，今天就以选自《经济学人》的文章《Ranchers v. bison-huggers》的句子来给大家分析，希望能够对各位2018考研考生的英语复习有所助益。

　　这个段落选自《经济学人》的文章《Ranchers v. bison-huggers》(牧民与拥抱野牛的人),主要是关于以《黄石的战争》一文中提到的黄石公园周遭的争议展开。专家和当地牧民就黄石公园的两种动物争论不休，看似纯经济纯科学的研究报告也好，法庭争论也罢，实际潜藏的乃是正反两方各自复杂的道德立场和利益考量。与其为了把自己的真理塞进别人的喉咙而费劲气力，不如多些体谅，求同存异。

　　It is nearly half a century since biologists first asked Congress to re-introduce wolves into Yellowstone, so that they might usefully eat some of the elk then lumbering about in over-large herds. Getting to the point of releasing wolves in the mid-1990s involved executive actions and directives from six presidents, debates in dozens of congressional committees, 120 public hearings, more than 160,000 public submissions to federal wildlife bosses and at least $12m-worth of scientific research. Pro- and anti-wolf types drew up competing technical reports about the value of wolves as “apex predators”, economic costs to cattle ranchers, tourism benefits and elk ecology. This techno-rationalist arms race bought no peace: the wolf-wars blaze as fiercely as ever.

　　这个段落包含四个小句，同时在这四个小句中，一些语法知识也是大家要注意到的!(加粗加黑部分)

　　(1)It is nearly half a century since biologists first asked Congress to re-introduce wolves into Yellowstone, so that they might usefully eat some of the elk then lumbering about in over-large herds.

　　(2)Getting to the point of releasing wolves in the mid-1990s involved executive actions and directives from six presidents, debates in dozens of congressional committees, 120 public hearings, more than 160,000 public submissions to federal wildlife bosses and at least $12m-worth of scientific research.

　　(3)Pro- and anti-wolf types drew up competing technical reports about the value of wolves as “apex predators”, economic costs to cattle ranchers, tourism benefits and elk ecology.

　　(4) This techno-rationalist arms race bought no peace: the wolf-wars blaze as fiercely as ever.

　　competing technical reports 针锋相对的技术报告

　　第一个句子中，标黑的部分“since”和“so that”是连接整个句子的关键，且该句的主干为“It is nearly half a century”，即“已经近半个世纪了”;而since在此处引导了时间状语从句(生物学家首次要求国会再次为黄石公园引进狼群)，so that则引导结果状语从句(让它们吃掉马鹿，以有效减少这个过于庞大的群体);

　　第二个句子的主语为“Getting to the point of releasing wolves in the mid-1990s”，动名词短语作主语;谓语动词包含“involved”， “executive actions and directives, debate”为谓语后的宾语成分;more than 和 at least 则是用来表示数量的“神助攻”;

　　第三个句子中，“Pro- and anti-”为“支持和反对”的前缀;而competing technical reports则为“针锋相对的技术报告” 的意思;

　　第四个句子中的“blaze”是关键，其意思为“火焰，光辉，烈火”的意思;the wolf-wars blaze的意思为“狼群之争一如既往地激烈”;

　　下面为该段的汉语意思(各位同学可以作为参考)：

　　近半个世纪以前，生物学家首次要求国会再次为黄石公园引进狼群，让它们吃掉马鹿，以有效减少这个过于庞大的群体。在20世纪90年代中期，释放狼群这个决定牵扯了行政措施以及六名总统的指令，国会委员会进行了多次争辩，召开了120场公众听证会，野生生物管理局官员们收到了超过160,000篇公众意见书，政府投入了至少一亿两千万去进行科学研究。支持引入狼群和反对者们竞相起草各种科技报告，如关于狼群作为“顶端捕食者”的价值，养牛场场主的经济成本，旅游收益以及马鹿生态。这种技术武装的理论者竞争闹得没有宁日：狼群之争一如既往地激烈。

　　以上就是文都考研英语老师为大家带来的知识分享，希望能够对各位同学有所帮助。

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