英语长句、难句和复杂句集萃

1. He finds that students who were easy to teach because they succeeded in putting everything they had been taught into practice, hesitate when faced with the huge untouched area of English vocabulary and usage which falls outside his textbooks. 他发现原来比较容易教的学生现在踌躇不前：原来比较容易教是因为他们能把教给他们的东西付诸实践；现在踌躇是因为他们面对大量的教科书上没有接触过的英语单词和习惯用语。

2.We know that a cat, whose eyes can take in many more rays of light than our eyes, can see clearly in the night. 我们知道，与我们的眼睛相比，猫的眼睛能吸收更多的光线，所以猫在黑夜里看得更清楚.

3. What would doctors say, for example, to a 46-year-old man coming in for a physical check up just before going on vacation with his family who,though he feels in good health,is found to have a form of disease that will cause him to die within six months. 举例说吧：一个46岁的男子，在与家人外出度假之前进行体检。虽然他自我感觉良好，但医生发现他患了某种形式的疾病，不超过6个月就会死去,这时，医生该怎样对他讲呢？

4. So my chances of getting to revolutionary China are pretty little, although I have not given up my efforts to get a passport that will enable me to visit the countries of Socialism. 因此，我到革命的中国来的希望相当小了，然而我并没有放弃努力来争取一本护照，使我得以访问社会主义国家。 5.Someone traveling alone, if hungry, injury, or ill, often had nowhere to turn except to the nearest cottage. 独自旅行的人,要是饿了,受伤了或生病了,除了最近的小屋,常无处求援。

6.In their hearts, women think it is men’s business to earn money and theirs to spend it------if possible, during their husband’s life, but, at any rate, after his death. 女人们从内心里认为，挣钱是男人的事情，她们只管花，可能的话，丈夫在世时就花，不行的话，在丈夫去世后花。

7.One can perhaps get a clearer picture of Japan’s serous population pressure by imaging what Switzerland would be like if that small and mountainous county were lived by 28 million people instead of the 5.7 million as at present. 只要设想一下，如果多山的小国瑞士居住的人口不是现在的570万，而是 2800万，瑞士会是什么情景，人们便会理解日本所面临的人口压力有多大。

8.When a good private school recently closed,some thoughtful citizens suggested that it be taken over by the public school system and used for boys and girls of high ability,that it have entrance requirements and give an advanced program of studies to excellent students who were invited and able to take it . 当一所私立学校关门的时候，一些有识之士认为，公立学校系统应该接管这所学校并将其用于培养才智高的学生；这些人士还主张，该校应该规定若干入学要求，为既有兴趣而接受能力又强的学生提供高标准的教学大纲。

9. Having never operated a computer,Mr 9.Having never operated a computer,Mr.Johnson met with a lot of difficulties at first. 约翰逊先生从未操作过计算机，所以最初遇到了许多困难。 10.Invented fewer than 20 years ago,it has already become one of the greatest things of the 70-year-old electronics. 尽管发明还不到20年，可是它已成为已有70年历史的电子学领域的一个壮举。

11.All flights having been canceled because of the snowstorm,many passengers could do nothing but take the train. 由于所有航班都因暴风雪而取消，许多旅客只好改乘火车。 12.Being very short of money and wanting to do something useful,I applied,fearing as I did so,that without a degree and with no experience in teaching,my chances of getting the job were little. 我因手头很拮据，同时也想干点有用的事，于是便提出了申请，但在提出申请的同时我也担心，自己一无学位，二无教学经验，得到这份工作的可能性是微乎其微。

13.Finally he had saved $50,which some Hening people living in Chicago,who were back home visiting,had assured him was enough to see him eat and sleep long enough to find himself a job that would put him on his feet. 他终于积攒了50美圆，作为住在芝加哥回到汉宁的人来说，这笔钱足够他在芝加哥支付食宿，从容觅职独立谋生。 14.New forms of thought,as well as new subjects for thought,must arise in the future as they have in the past,giving rise to new standard of elegance. 同过去一样,将来必然会出现新的思维对象和思维方式,给完美以新的标准。

15.Not daring to glance at them,I went out of the library,fearing that the woman would call me back for further questioning. 我看都不敢看他们一眼,就走出了图书馆,生怕这个女人把我叫回去再行盘问。 16.So,compared to what used to be,society is way ahead;compared to what might be,it is behind. 因此，比起过去的状况，现实社会已大大进步了；然而与可能达到的目标相比，则又远远落后了。

17.Having met,as a society,the basic survival and security needs,people simply don’t need each other anymore to fight Indians or spin yard or wash dishes or repair electrical plugs for that matter. 作为一个社会群体，人们在满足了基本的生存和安全需要之后，再也不必互相依赖，以便征战印第安人或者说为了纺线或洗盘子和修理电插头等区区小事而必须如此。 18.Green,hilly,with countless trees,it was a beautiful country,the Virginia-Kentucky border area-or would have been,except for the mines. 一片翠绿，丘陵起伏，林木茂盛，弗吉尼亚州和肯特基州接界的地区是一片美丽的山野-----要不是有煤矿的话。

19.If I went abroad,I’d travel round the country as much as I could and try to find as many people as possible,not only to practice the language on but to have discussions with,and I’d hope to make some real friends. 我要是出国，我会尽量地周游这个国家，设法尽可能多地结识一些人，不仅以他们作为语言实践的对象，而且要和他们讨论问题。我希望结识一些真正的朋友。 20.More and more,Americans apparently are looking not just for places with more jobs but with fewer people,too. 很显然，越来越多的美国人寻找的地方不仅要求工作机会比较多，而且要求居住的人少。

现在人们已普遍承认，大气中的二氧化碳含量将在今后50年内增加一倍，即0.03%增加到0.06%,全球的气温将上升2摄氏度。 21.In some cases people go abroad for study in their special subject or to learn and get more practice in the language of that country and you can’t speak a foreign language really well without having lived in that country where it is spoken. 在大多数情况下，人们出国是为了学习专业，或者学习并进一步实践那个国家的语言，因为没有在说这种语言的国家里生活过，你不可能真正讲好那个国家的语言。 22.It is now generally agreed that the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere will doubt from 0.03% to 0.06% in the next 50 years and that temperatures world-wide will rise by 2 point C. 现在人们已普遍承认，大气中的二氧化碳含量将在今后50年内增加一倍，即0.03%增加到0.06%,全球的气温将上升2摄氏度。