如果期待对方的诚实表现，你是否会通过时间上的压力迫使他作出仓促的决定。这篇文章就是关于“欺骗冲动”的研究结果呈现——时间上的仓促常常会迫使行为人选择说谎。今天，文都考研英语老师就来给2018考研考生分析一下《Time to be honest》中所涉及的考研英语长难句。

　　Is sin original? That is the question addressed by Shaul Shalvi, a psychologist at the University of Amsterdam, in a paper just published in Psychological Science. Dr. Shalvi and his colleagues, Ori Eldar and Yoella Bereby-Meyer of Ben-Gurion. University in Israel, wanted to know if the impulse to cheat is something that grows or diminishes when the potential cheater has time for reflection on his actions. Is cheating, in other words, instinctive or calculating?

　　(1)Is sin original?

　　(2) That is the question addressed by Shaul Shalvi, a psychologist at the University of Amsterdam, in a paper just published in Psychological Science.

　　(3)Dr. Shalvi and his colleagues, Ori Eldar and Yoella Bereby-Meyer of Ben-Gurion University in Israel, wanted to know if the impulse to cheat is something that grows or diminishes when the potential cheater has time for reflection on his actions.

　　(4)Is cheating, in other words, instinctive or calculating?

　　第一个句子中， Is sin original?(罪恶是天生的么?)，这句话很像中国古代非常著名的教育家荀子提出的“人性本恶”;荀子曾说过“生之所以然者谓之性”，性，是天赋的且与生俱来的原始质朴的自然属性，是不待后天学习而成的自然本能;

　　第二个句子的句子主干是这样的：That is the question;在question后面的“addressed by Shaul Shalvi, a psychologist at the University of Amsterdam, in a paper just published in Psychological Science” .是question一词的后置定语，且在其中还包含着Shaul Shalvi的同位语结构;in a paper 为状语，且后面的“just published in Psychological Science”为paper的后置定语;

　　第三个句子的主干为Dr. Shalvi and his colleagues wanted to know if...;在这个句子中， Ori Eldar and Yoella Bereby-Meyer of Ben-Gurion University in Israel为his colleagues的同位语结构;know后为该句的宾语从句“if the impulse to cheat is something that grows or diminishes when the potential cheater has time for reflection on his actions”;这个宾语从句中的结构为if the impulse to cheat is something，后面为以something为先行词的定语从句及when引导的时间状语从句;

　　第四个句子中，“ in other words”(换言之) 为插入语结构;

　　“人性本恶?” 这是由阿姆斯特丹大学的一位心理学家-Shaul Shalvi，在《心理科学》杂志上发表的一篇论文中所提出的问题。Shalvi博士和他的两位同事-以色列Ben-Gurion大学的Ori Eldar 和 Yoella Bereby-Meyer，希望知道如果那些潜在的骗子有时间对他们的行为作出充分考虑，他们撒谎的冲动会否因此增强或减弱呢?换句话说，撒谎究竟是人的一种本能行为，还是经过仔细分析后所作出的选择呢?

　　以上就是文都网校考研频道为大家带来的考研英语长难句分析，希望能够对各位同学在复习中有所帮助。

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